Media releases

27 June 2007
Sydney Community Foundation provides grant to extend successful Grandfriends project.
The Sydney Community Foundation announced today it was making a $14,500 grant to the Council on the Ageing (NSW) to extend the successful Grandfriends project to up to 40 primary schools in the Campbelltown area. The area is home to many struggling families, and six of these schools are for students with special needs. More details [PDF document] ...

6 March 2007
Sydney Community Foundation introduces the Sydney Women’s Fund as part of the Foundation.
The Sydney Women’s Fund will support programs for women in greater Sydney. The Fund will focus on four key areas: improved access to education; improved personal safety; preventive health-care; and participation in sport. More details [PDF document] ...

19 July 2006
Sydney Community Foundation announces launch of "Grandparents raising grandchildren" support program and announces additional funding
The Sydney Community Foundation today announced that it has provided the seed funding to enable the launch of a program supporting a largely unrecognised but growing social group, grandparents raising grandchildren. More details [PDF document] ...

19 June 2006
Ms Wendy McCarthy AO to service as new chair of the Sydney Community Foundation
The Board of Sydney Community Foundation is pleased to announce that Ms Wendy McCarthy AO has been elected to become the Foundation's new Chair effective from 21 June, 2006. More details [PDF document] ...

20 January 2006
Sydney Community Foundation provides funding to launch youth at risk program, Midnight Basketball
The Sydney Community Foundation has provided the seed funding which has enabled a new youth at risk program to launch in Sydney’s Redfern. More details [PDF document] ...

18 January 2006
Sydney Community Foundation helps Bankstown residents green up their homes
Funding from the Sydney Community Foundation has seen the first of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s GreenHome projects completed in the Bankstown area, which has resulted in annual savings of 12.75 million litres of water, 650 tonnes of greenhouse pollution and a 30 per cent reduction in landfill waste. More details [PDF document] ...

6 March 2004
Acting Premier launches new foundation for Sydney community
The Honourable Andrew Refshauge MP, Acting Premier of NSW, today launched the Sydney Community Foundation (SCF), a perpetual charitable foundation which will provide ongoing support and funding for community projects in greater Sydney More details ...

24 March 2003
New community fund to keep an eye over Sydney
NSW Acting Premier Dr Andrew Refshuage today launched the Sydney Community Foundation - a charity foundation to help fund community projects in greater Sydney More details ...