Our 2017 recipient, LWCHC, created the Empowering Girls to Grow career mentoring program for disadvantaged 16- and 17-year-old girls. Funded by Impact100 Sydney, 40 girls were matched with successful businesswomen, gaining career guidance and on-the-job work experience over two years.

ALNF, our 2018 grant recipient, raises language, literacy, and numeracy standards among Indigenous, refugee, and disadvantaged Australians. Our grant supported the Refugee Action Support program, providing English literacy support for refugee children and youth, enabling positive educational experiences.

Open Support, our 2019 recipient, addresses social issues by aiding over 1,800 women and children escaping domestic and family violence since 1995. Our grant helped them provide crisis accommodation and specialised support to empower and help heal affected individuals.

Our 4th grant recipient, Stepping Stone House, offers accommodation and personal development for homeless and at-risk youth aged 12-24. This award-winning organization helps young people build self-esteem, emotional resilience, self-confidence, and good health through outdoor adventure education, counseling, and life skills.

Joining forces, SHINE for Kids and Confit Pathways transform the lives of youth in juvenile detention. Our grant supported the expansion of the Strong Pathways Together program, offering exercise, self-esteem building, employment preparation, and mentoring to 80 young people in Greater Sydney. The program has since gone from strength to strength and been replicated across more sites.

The Reconnect Project, our major grant recipient in 2022, empowers young people with neurological or psychosocial disabilities through traineeships in mobile phone repair. Our grant has supported this Australian-first initiative to provide skills and employment pathways for 25 trainees while distributing 1,000 repaired devices to disadvantaged families in Sydney. Saving 1,000 devices from landfill is an added bonus.

Impact100 Sydney awarded two major grants in 2023 to House of Welcome and The Haven.

House of Welcome received a $100,000 grant which will be used to fund a Client Services Manager for their Welcome Start transitional housing program. This program provides affordable accommodation and wrap around support to refugees and people seeking asylum in Sydney.
‍
The Haven Nepean Women’s Shelter provide crisis accommodation to women and their children escaping family and domestic violence. The grant will support the development and evaluation of a pilot program of specialist therapeutic services for child residents of The Haven. These services will be delivered at The Haven and support trauma recovery and developmental challenges faced by this vulnerable cohort of young people.

Founded in 2022, Bandu has grown from supporting 15 to 74 First Nations students through comprehensive mentorship and practical assistance. Their model  focuses on removing barriers to tertiary education and employment through personalised support. Our grant will fund two part-time mentors and cover essential student expenses including transport, accommodation, and work attire, helping transform educational aspirations into career opportunities for First Nations students while allowing Bandu to scale up their program to meet demand.

Where environmental action meets social justice, The Bower transforms donated goods into furnished homes for refugees and women escaping violence, while teaching valuable repair skills to participants. Our grant enabled a permanent expansion of the House to Home program, to furnish 300 homes, support around 750 individuals, and deliver life-skills workshops to 40 participants, helping them to rebuild their lives and find belonging through skills, confidence and connection.