Ways to Give

Delivering support that empowers strong, vibrant sustainable communities

FRRR is inspired and driven by the needs and abilities of remote, rural and regional communities. Many of these grassroots groups can’t easily access support to bring their ideas to life. But after more than 25 years of working closely with these grassroots groups, we have well-established relationships and reach into even the smallest places in Australia. Our special tax status, coupled with our unique reach and deep understanding of the needs of remote, rural and regional communities means that we can help you and your organisation ensure that support reaches those who need it most.

Get in touch with FRRR’s Partnerships team to discuss how you can make a meaningful difference to remote, rural and regional communities.
"Thank you for supporting our project with your generous grant. There is no organisation like FRRR that exists specifically to support rural and remote projects. We are so grateful for the important and unique work of FRRR. We would not have been able to have such a successful year without your contribution. We are excited to keep growing and reaching our goals, and maintain a lasting reciprocal partnership with FRRR that goes beyond just a grant cycle.  "
Vanessa and the Team – Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (The Pertame School): “Ngketya Nwernaka Ilkerta Mparetyeka” Making Our Language Strong, Pertame Master-Apprentice Project 

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Remote, rural and regional communities have immediate needs to make where they live stronger and more vibrant but FRRR also looks to the future and plans for the long-term to support these communities.

There are currently three options for giving for the long-term through our Endowment Funds. Income from investments grow the Funds, which are sub-funds of FRRR’s Public Fund. A portion of the annual income from investments will be distributed via grants. This ensures that the corpus of the Funds grow, subject to investment market returns.

Donations and gifts are pooled together and donors will be kept informed of the Funds’ value and the impact of grants made possible with donations.

FRRR’s Board and its Finance & Audit sub-committee will safely steward these sub-funds over the long-term, investing conservatively alongside FRRR’s existing corpus. This means donations to these long-horizon sub-funds will be leveraged time and time again, ensuring they keep having an impact, rather than being spent once.

All donations and gifts to a sub-fund of FRRR’s Public Fund are tax-deductible in Australia.

Many of the not-for-profit organisations that receive funding from FRRR are grassroots community-led and volunteer-run groups that cannot easily fundraise or access philanthropic support. Every year, FRRR relies on the generosity of individuals, philanthropy, business and government to be able to offer small grants and other capacity building opportunities for these organisations.

To provide a level of reliability and security in the future for these types of grants, the Small Grants Fund endowment will build over time to ensure there will always be funding available for small grants for remote, rural and regional communities. Small grants allow flexibility for responsive support for projects that are needed and they often kick start a community to secure other funding.

You can give securely online to FRRR’s Small Grants Fund or contact the Partnerships Team.

As Australia faces an increasing number of natural disasters – bushfires, floods, cyclones and extended droughts – it is increasingly important to have the resources and funds ready to support communities affected and to help them prepare for future disaster events.

Established in 2019, FRRR’s Disaster Resilience and Recovery Fund (DRRF) already has a corpus of more than $5M – growing this endowment will provide support for communities in their medium to long-term recovery and to prepare for climate-related disasters.

This Fund ensures that FRRR can support community recovery, long after the headlines have faded. It also funds preparedness initiatives so that communities are in a better position to recover from a disaster event.

Read more about the Disaster Resilience and Recovery Fund.

You can give securely online to FRRR’s Disaster Resilience and Recovery Fund or contact the Partnerships Team.

FRRR has the track-record, the expertise and the reputation to deliver grants and build the capacity of community organisations in remote, rural and regional communities across Australia, and we need to build our own capability to ensure we can stand alongside them. A donation to our Backbone Fund will support FRRR’s operations and systems, as well as our evaluation and impact measurement to ensure our funding and support drives positive outcomes and gives a stronger voice for communities.

You can give securely online to FRRR’s Backbone Fund or contact the Partnerships Team.

Make a lasting difference in remote, rural and regional Australia through a gift in your will to FRRR.

Including a gift to FRRR in your Will means that people and places in remote, rural and regional Australia can access the support they need to continue to create wonderful places to live and work and drive our shared prosperity.

Since 2000, FRRR has delivered in excess of $200 million to more than 15,000 projects in remote, rural and regional towns and communities.

By leaving a gift to FRRR in your Will – a bequest – you will be helping to address inequality and disadvantage. You will be contributing to creating strong, resilient and sustainable communities by bringing to life the projects that local communities prioritise.

Bequests are the gift that never stops giving and they are not difficult to set up. It doesn’t require much time or a lot of money. In fact, any amount can have an impact far greater and more lasting than you might expect.

Learn more about making a bequest to FRRR

There are several ways that you can structure a bequest:

  • Give a specified amount;
  • Give a percentage of the overall value of your estate;
  • Make a residual gift – which is a share of your estate after providing for family and friends.

Get in touch with FRRR’s Partnerships Team for more information or to discuss how you could leave a legacy gift to support the sustainability and vibrant future of remote, rural and regional communities in Australia.

Make an impact across remote, rural and regional Australia by giving to grassroots community organisations through FRRR.

 

FRRR can help Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs), including family foundations and donor advised sub-funds of Public Ancillary Funds (PuAFs), to give to grassroots community organisations in remote, rural and regional Australia that these structures typically can’t directly support. 

FRRR’s specific Deductible Gift Recipient Item 1 (DGR-1) listing and broad charitable remit allow it to grant to not-for-profit organisations and grassroots community organisations, meaning our grantees do not have to be an ACNC registered charity, nor do they have to be DGR-1 endorsed. Furthermore, FRRR can receive donations and give to community groups that reflect preferences for particular geographies and/or themes of interests and priority areas.

PAFs and PuAFs can give to FRRR, obtain a DGR-1 receipt, and donations can reach the far corners of Australia, through grassroots organisations who are often otherwise restricted from receiving your philanthropic support.

Get in touch with FRRR to discuss how your PAF or PuAF Sub-Fund can support remote, rural and regional communities to thrive.

Giving a little can make a big difference.

Workplace Giving is an effective way for employees to make regular donations to causes they are passionate about and for employers to demonstrate their commitment to the community.

For Employees:

  •  you decide to donate a set amount each week, which comes out of your regular pre-tax salary payment;
  • you pay less tax, and your chosen charity gets much needed funds.

For Employers:

  • helps to build your culture, strengthen employee engagement, and enhances your brand;
  • has a meaningful impact in the communities in which you work.
Even the smallest donation from each pay can make a difference

Just $5 a week (that’s one coffee a week, which adds up to $260 a year) can have a big impact – for example it could:

  • Purchase food to stock a community pantry, to alleviate food insecurity;
  • Buy a printer so that a community group can publish a newsletter to let local community members know what’s going on and what’s on offer; or
  • Help a community group to buy paint to refresh their local community hall.
Matched giving makes an even bigger difference

By employers matching their employees’ donations to FRRR, dollar for dollar, they can demonstrate their commitment to rural communities. It sends a powerful message, at the same time helping to build stronger, more vibrant remote, rural and regional communities.

Workplace Giving is usually managed through an employer’s payroll system. Companies may use their own system or integrate with an existing platform such as Shout For Good, Good2Give, Give Now and Good Company – FRRR is registered with all of these platforms.

Contact us to find out more about establishing your own Workplace Giving program or adding FRRR to an existing platform.

Many businesses offer employees a simple and effective way to support charities through a workplace giving program. This helps businesses demonstrate good corporate citizenship and their support for staff, leading to positive social impact. A workplace giving program helps to build a company’s culture, strengthens employee engagement, and enhances its brand in the eyes of customers.

For example, the Findex Community Fund (FCF) has matched charitable donations of Findex staff through their Workplace Giving Program since 2018, giving their people the opportunity to control their own donations, while maximising their contribution.

FCF’s internal giving campaigns have invited Findex staff to donate to FRRR, one of their charity partners, as an organisation which supports a huge number of remote, rural and regional communities. For Findex, who have people and offices geographically spread throughout Australia, supporting an FRRR program such as Strengthening Rural Communities is a way that they can give back to the communities they are connected to.

Danielle Maxwell, former Head of Philanthropy and Sustainability at Findex, said, “Findex operates in rural and regional communities throughout Australia, and our people understand the impact of isolation. Connecting and giving back to our communities is part of our giving culture and our DNA and we are proud to support FRRR who not only provide a platform to provide first response to those impacted by natural disasters but also on ongoing development and community wellbeing to support remote rural and regional Australia.“

 

By employers matching their employee’s donations to FRRR, dollar for dollar, they can demonstrate their commitment to rural communities. It sends a powerful message, at the same time to build stronger, more vibrant remote, rural and regional communities.

 

 

Get in touch with the FRRR Partnerships Team if you’d like to discuss ways that your business can support remote, rural and regional communities, or to learn more about workplace giving.

Five reasons to donate to FRRR
  1. We are locally driven – so funds go to where communities most need them.
  2. We reach community groups that often can’t access tax deductible donations.
  3. We diligently assess the organisations and projects that receive grants, so you can be confident that your money is going to make a difference.
  4. Funds can go to things that matter to you. It could be to a particular cause such as education, disaster recovery, aged care, environmental initiatives or culture and arts projects, or to a particular location.
  5. We are the only national foundation focussed on investing in remote, rural and regional communities so we are able to observe, identify, understand and respond with funding to the challenges and needs of these communities.
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Amy Crawford

Amy Crawford has an extensive career in complex public policy and its intersection across government and communities.

Amy is the Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA), representing 537 councils across the nation. Amy holds over 20 years’ experience in the Australian Public Service. She has a deep understanding of federal government policies and structures, with over 10 years’ service in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and has worked for the federal Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories. Amy has shaped a wide range of policies and programs including regional development, telecommunications, immigration, emergency management, social policy and pandemic preparation.

Amy is a Board Director of Austroads and represents ALGA on the Public Skills Australia Industry Advisory Group, and the Australia-New Zealand Emergency Management Committee. She is also a Board Director for the Canberra Youth Theatre which provides voice for Canberra’s youth through intelligent and challenging theatre.

Amy holds a Bachelor of Laws (honours) and Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) from the University of Queensland, is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an alumnus of the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership. Amy was appointed to the FRRR Board in January 2025.

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Kylie Hansen

Kylie brings leadership and management experience from across academic, corporate, not-for-profit, social enterprise and impact investment sectors, having deep dived into a myriad of specialisations and systems. Her six tertiary qualifications are equally as diverse and complimentary, covering commerce, politics, international development, community development, project management and law. Her breadth and depth of experience enables her to draw on a number of disciplines and innovative ways of working and thinking, and she is well recognised as consistently delivering work and services of a high quality.

Kylie uses her strong background in sustainability, governance and impact measurement to support collaborative initiatives across sectors oriented at improving social outcomes, and to support socially conscientious businesses to articulate their social impact. As founder and director at Impact Seed she has been instrumental in developing the impact measurement, evaluation, learning and ESG practice which advises numerous corporates, and is passionate about supporting First Nations empowerment particularly in the context of regional economic development.

Kylie is also a Director of the WA Social Enterprise Council, a member of the B Council (B Lab Australia and New Zealand), and a Governor of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

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Hon. John Anderson AC

The Hon. John Anderson AC is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from NSW, who served in the Australian Parliament from 1989 to 2008.

He was a senior Cabinet minister in the government led by John Howard (1996 to 2005), including six years as Leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister.

In the latter role, Mr Anderson played in important role in FRRR’s history, working closely with Baillieu Myer AC and others on a proposal to establish a philanthropic organisation to benefit rural Australia. The concept was discussed at the National Regional Summit in 1999 and FRRR was established shortly thereafter.

Mr Anderson currently hosts a regular podcast, where he is in conversation with thought-leaders from around the world, and is a regular media commentator.

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Regina Cruickshank

Partnerships Specialist (WA)

Regina supports FRRR as the WA Partnerships Specialist. With over two decades of experience in partnerships and marketing, she has a deep understanding of Western Australia’s social impact landscape. She brings a strong passion for leveraging purpose-built networks to create positive change.

Regina previously worked with Playgroup WA and founded a Health Promotion Charity dedicated to supporting Social Emotional wellbeing for underserved communities. She’s excited about the opportunity to connect with partners and explore ways to make a meaningful difference in WA.

She lives in Perth with her family and enjoys mindful moments of connection to Country, whether on horseback, on foot or underwater.

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Anna Palmer

People and Culture Manager

Based in Central Victoria, Anna is a senior Human Resources, Organisation Development and Industrial Relations professional, with significant private and public sector experience across every facet of people and culture leadership.

Her most recent roles have been with Don KR in Castlemaine and Mount Alexander Shire Council. She has also held senior HR roles with Victoria Legal Aid and the TAC among many others.

From Mildura originally, Anna has postgraduate qualifications in Change Management and a Masters in Organisation Dynamics.

Anna is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts to balance her creative pursuits and work as an HR professional.

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Philippa Twaddle

Management Accountant

Carolyn joined the FRRR team in March 2017, and is responsible for providing executive support to the CEO, effective coordination of the FRRR office and general administrative support to the management team. A key responsibility is supporting the administration of FRRR’s Donation Account Services.

She has over fifteen years’ experience working in local government in the Tourism and Arts Sector, Civic and Event Management and Community engagement.

Carolyn has a Bachelor of Arts in Librarianship, majoring in psychology, and grew up on farming communities in Cohuna and Echuca and currently lives in Bendigo.