Charity | Institutions

Please support the following charities that are needy and deserved of your help. Supporting Australian's in need, as one day you may need their help!

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Able Australia
⊜ 413 Canterbury Road, Surrey Hills
Able Australia is a leading provider of disability services for adults and community supports for seniors. Our vision is to enable the people we support to live the life they choose. Our...

Alkira Centre
⊜ 3 Thurston Street Box Hill
Alkira is a for-purpose organisation that is all about community access and inclusion for people who have a disability. We are committed to providing a positive experience and partnering with the...

Angel Flight Australia
⊜ Australia
Angel Flight is a charity which coordinates non-emergency flights to assist country people to access specialist medical treatment that would otherwise be unavailable to them because of vast distance...

Anglicare Victoria
⊜ Melbourne
Anglicare Victoria provides support to 70,000 children, young people and families every year. Through a range of services, we work towards strengthening families and communities so they can...

Australian Charities
⊜ PO Box 83, Narre Warren Narre Warren
The leading portal and source of information on the Australian charitable sector. CAF Australia is an Australian not for profit organisation whose mission is to increase the flow of funds to the...

Australian Community Foundation
⊜ 201 Napier St Fitzroy
The Australian Community Foundation (ACF) aims to generate and distribute philanthropic resources to charitable organisations to help build happy and resilient communities. Established in 1997,...

Australian Justice Inc.
⊜ Suite 3, Level 8, 179 Queen Street Melbourne
The purpose of Australian Justice Inc. is to seek justice for people in need. Australian Justice Inc. can provide grants towards payment of legal costs for people in need who have been refused...

Australian Multicultural Community Services
⊜ 44-56 Hampstead Road Maidstone
For many of our clients migration is a key influence on their life and most of them will have faced some - if not many - challenges in adjusting to life in Australia. For some elderly people this...

Australian Red Cross
⊜ 23-47 Villiers Street, North Melbourne
Australian Red Cross is building a better society based on people helping people. Relief in times of crisis, care when it's needed most and commitment when others turn away. Red Cross is...

Australian Red Cross Blood Service
⊜ 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Australian Red Cross Blood Service Do something special, GIVE Call 13 14 95 today to donate blood and save three lives. For many people blood donors are their lifeline. Currently 1 in 3...

Avalon Centre
⊜ 1936 Malvern Road Malvern East
The Avalon Centre was founded in 1987 with a focus on meeting unmet needs. Avalon is run entirely by Volunteers and survives solely on tax deductible donations and grants. Avalon's aim is to...

Backpacks 4 VIC Kids
⊜ 86 Camms Rd Cranbourne
Our purpose is to aid children going into foster care and to aid foster care families. Often children are placed quickly into foster care without much more than what they are wearing at the time. We...

Bailee Ada Foundation
⊜ Melbourne
The Bailee Ada Foundation was set up after Bailee Ada Choate passed away at 11 months old with a rare genetic disorder - Congenital Disorder of Glycosalation (CDG). Bailee Ada Foundation raises...

Baptcare
⊜ 1193 Toorak Road Camberwell
Baptcare is a not-for-profit organisation and provider of high quality care and support in youth, family and disability services, residential aged care and community aged care services. Since 1945...

Barnardos Australia
⊜ Melbourne
For over 120 years Barnardos has been at the forefront of child welfare service provision and has embraced a tradition of innovation and holistic approach in our quest to find real, permanent...

Beehive Foundation
⊜ 13 Cleveland Close Narre Warren North
The Beehive Foundation is a non-for profit organisation that delivers free structured programs to help our youth build resilience, self esteem & confidence through life skills that build coping...

Berry Street
⊜ 1 Salisbury Street Richmond
Berry Street helps children, young people & families recover from the devastating effects of violence, abuse & neglect. Berry Street Victoria has been protecting and caring for children and...

Bicycles for Humanity
⊜ Melbourne
Bicycles for Humanity is a world wide organisation focused on making a difference through the re-distribution of dis-used bikes. We take that old bike from the back of your garage and give it a...

Bobby Goldsmith Foundation
⊜ . Melbourne
The Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) is Australia's oldest AIDS charity and has provided financial and practical support for men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS for seventeen years....

Bravehearts
⊜ Melbourne
Bravehearts was founded by Hetty Johnston during Child Protection Week, September 1997. Bravehearts Inc. operates under an Article of Association, is operated by a Board of Management and is...

Breast Cancer Network Australia
⊜ 293 Camberwell Road, Camberwell
Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) works to ensure that women diagnosed with breast cancer, and their families, receive the very best information, treatment, care and support possible. BCNA is...

Brotherhood of St Laurence
⊜ 67 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Child poverty diminishes our society and hurts those who experience it. It goes against our value of giving everyone a fair go. Children living in poverty are more likely to: have low levels...

Camcare
⊜ 51 St Johns Avenue, Camberwell
Camcare is a not-for-profit, community based organisation that has operated in Boroondara for over thirty years. Camcare focuses on meeting a range of support needs which result from adversities...

Camp Quality
⊜ Australia
Camp Quality is a non profit organisation that is committed to bringing hope and happiness to every child living with cancer, their families and communities through ongoing quality recreational,...

Cancer Council Victoria
⊜ 615 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
The Cancer Council Victoria is a public institution created by an Act of Parliament. It has a central location in Melbourne and employs a staff of about 350. It houses three research...

Care Connect
⊜ Level 1, 204-206 Gipps Street Abbotsford
Care Connect is a major community care provider that supports people to live healthy, independent lives at home and in the community. With offices in NSW, QLD and VIC, Care Connect supports...

Casey Tutungi Appeal
⊜ Melbourne
Casey Tutungi is a young local footballer struck down in his prime while playing the game he loved. Casey, born and bred in Lorne suffered a debilitating spinal cord injury on Saturday 22nd June...

CatholicCare
⊜ Melbourne
For over 75 years CatholicCare has worked on behalf of the Catholic Church in Melbourne and Geelong to build on the vision of 'life to the full' for families, individuals and communities in all their...

Cathy Freeman Foundation
⊜ Australia
We support Indigenous students to achieve their potential in school. Helping Indigenous children experience their full potential in school, and beyond. The Cathy Freeman Foundation programs...

Challenge | supporting kids with cancer
⊜ 529-535 King St West Melbourne
Challenge is a non-profit organisation which was established in 1983 to provide children living with cancer and other life-threatening blood disorders with the opportunity to put their illness aside...

Chicks for Charity
⊜ Wantirna
Chicks for Charity raise community awareness through uniting women from all walks of life. Chicks for Charity encourage all women to harness the power of 'giving back'. Organized fund raising...

Children's Tumour Foundation
⊜ Melbourne
The Children's Tumour Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing information, resources and support services to children, their families and adults living with...

Childrens Charity Network
⊜ 170 Forrest Road, Lara
Childrens Charity Network is a Victorian based not-for-profit organisation, which acts as an umbrella for different programs/initiatives. Its main aim is to build, foster and nurture confidence and...

CoGround Coffee
⊜ Corner Brunswick Road and Black Street Brunswick
CO-GROUND COFFEE NEW LOCATION! Corner of Brunswick Rd & Black St. Brunswick 7am - 3pm, Wednesday - Sunday Co-Ground Coffee is open Wednesday - Sunday, 7am - 3pm. Come down and treat...

Cottage by the Sea
⊜ 29 Flinders Street Queenscliff
Cottage by the Sea is a community charity fundraising service caring for Australian children and families in need. We are one of the oldest Australian charities operating since 1890 and provide...

Crepes for Change
⊜ Melbourne
Crepes for Change | 100% of the profits toward youth homelessness in Australia. There are over 40,000 young people sleeping rough in Australia EVERY night. It's hard to believe, but it's true. And...

Crohn's & Colitis Australia
⊜ Level 1, 462 Burwood Rd Hawthorn
Crohn's and Colitis Australia (CCA) is the peak national body representing more than 75,000 Australians living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). CCA supports the Crohn's and colitis...

Cure EB - Epidermolysis Bullosa
⊜ Australia
The worst disease you've never heard of. be part of the cure for eb... Epidermolysis Bullosa Explained Epidermolysis Bullosa, a group of rare genetic disorders, impacts the skin, the body's...

Cystic Fibrosis Victoria
⊜ Melbourne
Cystic Fibrosis Victoria (CFV) was founded in 1974 by a group of parents of children with CF and became an Incorporated Association in 1984. To promote research, increase awareness of Cystic...

Down Syndrome Victoria
⊜ 552 Victoria Street North Melbourne
Down Syndrome Victoria is the statewide peak membership organisation representing people with Down syndrome and their families. It is a not-for-profit organisation established in 1978 to provide...

Eat Up Australia: Feeds School Kids
⊜ Australia
It's hard to believe, but there are many young Aussies who go to school each day without any lunch. And without food, concentration is compromised. Which means learning is compromised. Which means...

eviDent Foundation
⊜ Level 3, 10 Yarra Street South Yarra
eviDent Foundation was established in 2011 as a health-promotion charity supporting Australia's only Dental Practice Based Research Network (DPBRN). It is an initiative of the Australian Dental...

Extended Families Australia
⊜ 1, 95 Bell St, Coburg
Extended Families provide friendship and support to a child who has a disability. Volunteers spend time with a child on a regular basis-either in the family's home, the volunteer's home or in a...

Family Life
⊜ Hampton
Every family deserves to live in a safe and supportive community. Everything we do supports this through our family and individual support services, community strengthening programs, a network of...

FareShare | Rescuing Food - Fighting Hunger
⊜ 1-7 South Audley Street Abbotsford
FareShare rescues food and helps fight hunger to everyday Melburnian's. Since 2001 we have given away healthy, nutritious meals to the hungry and the homeless in Victoria, using food donated by...

Father Bob Maguire Foundation
⊜ 91 Victoria Avenue, Albert Park
The Father Bob Maguire Foundation is a Melbourne-based registered charity providing food relief, social inclusion, educational support and a range of associated services so that no one is left...

Feast Foundation
⊜ Melbourne
Throughout their global travels, renowned Chef and TV presenter Barry Vera and his business partner / TV producer Michael Dickinson, have been able to experience the need for support that different...

Feed Appeal
⊜ Melbourne
The Feed Victoria Appeal builds on the former Feed Melbourne Appeal's mission to increase the capacity of suburban and regional food relief charities and help them nourish their communities. Feed...

Fight Cancer Foundation
⊜ 1d Royal Parade Parkville
The Fight Cancer Foundation is a registered charity dedicated to providing care, treatment and support for people with leukaemia and other forms of cancer and funds research into better treatment...

Fight Parkinson's
⊜ 587 Canterbury Road, Surrey Hills
Fight Parkinson's is the new name of Parkinson's Victoria and is a leading source of specialised health information, advice and services for people living with Parkinson's or Atypical Parkinson's...

Finnan's Gift
⊜ Melbourne
Finnan's Gift is a fundraising project set up by Alisa Camplin and her husband Oliver Warner. Launched in May 2011, Finnan's Gift will raise much needed funds for state-of-the-art equipment in the...

Fitted for Work
⊜ 513 Bridge Road Richmond
Fitted for Work's vision is financial independence for women and our mission is to help women experiencing disadvantage get work and keep it. Every day our trained staff and volunteers help women...

Foodbank Victoria
⊜ 4/2 Somerville Road Yarraville
Foodbank Victoria is an independent not-for-profit organisation with more than 80 years' food relief experience. We are the state's oldest and largest organisation of our kind. Our aim is to...

Fred Hollows Foundation
⊜ 52 Barry Street, Carlton
We are an international development organisation working towards eliminating avoidable blindness and improving Indigenous Australian health. The Foundation works in more than 25 countries and has...

Free To Feed | Fitzroy North
⊜ 205-211 QUEENS PARADE, Fitzroy North
Supporting refugees + people seeking asylum through shared food experiences & employment Free to Feed is a social enterprise creating empowering employment opportunities for people seeking asylum...

Free To Feed | Northcote
⊜ 539 High St, Northcote
Supporting refugees + people seeking asylum through shared food experiences & employment Free to Feed is a social enterprise creating empowering employment opportunities for people seeking asylum...

Friends for Good
⊜ Northcote
Friends for Good is a national not-for-profit organisation that focuses specifically on loneliness and social isolation. We raise awareness of loneliness as a significant issue in the community...

Frontyard Youth Services
⊜ 19 King Street Melbourne
Frontyard helps young people who are homeless or in need of support. It is now the biggest service centre of its type in Melbourne's central business district, containing eight co-located...

Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund
⊜ Traralgon
The Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund has been supporting Gippslanders after Natural Disasters for more than 30 years. The Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund is a registered charitable organisation...

GiveNow
⊜ 51 Stanley St, West Melbourne
GiveNow.com.au is Australia's most user-friendly giving portal - a place where you can put your dollars to work to start building the kind of world you want to live in. The site is designed to...

Good Friday Appeal: Royal Children's Hospital
⊜ Level 4, 50 Flemington Road Parkville
Good Friday Appeal is the official charity organising the Royal Children's Hospital's Good Friday Appeal event broadcast on Channel Seven. The Good Friday Appeal is a unique fundraising activity...

GordonCare
⊜ 1125 Nepean Highway, Highett
Our mission is to enhance life outcomes for children and families through the provision of quality services that are innovative, accessible and responsive to the changing needs of our community,...

Green Collect
⊜ Unit 12/75a Ashley St, Braybrook
Green Collect works with organisations & communities to enable circularity, reuse and the best environmental outcome for all kinds of items. Our organisation enables circular economy, keeping...

Greenfleet
⊜ Melbourne
Greenfleet is a leading not-for-profit environmental organisation on a mission to protect our climate by restoring our forests. We plant native biodiverse forests to offset carbon emissions on...

Hawthorn Community Chest
⊜ PO Box 231, Hawthorn
HELPING OUR COMMUNITY Since 1958, the Hawthorn Community Chest has raised and distributed funds to charitable organisations and not-for-profit groups providing health, welfare, education and...

Heart Foundation of Australia
⊜ Melbourne
We fund lifesaving heart research, and work to improve heart disease prevention and care for all Australians We're fighting the single biggest killer of Australians - heart disease. The Heart...

Heart Research Australia
⊜ Melbourne
Research Today. A cure Tomorrow. Heart Research Australia raises funds for research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease and associated medical conditions. Our goal...

HeartKids
⊜ Suite 310, Level 3, 55 Flemington Road North Melbourne
HeartKids is a support group for families of children with heart disease, be it congenital (born with) or acquired. We started as voluntary group of parents and individuals dealing with and...

HomeGround
⊜ Melbourne
HomeGround's vision is to end homelessness in Melbourne. Our mission is to get people housed and to keep people housed. We do this by providing housing and support services across Melbourne,...

Humanitix: social enterprise ticketing platform
⊜ Australia
Humanitix is the not-for-profit ticketing platform that donates all our profits to partner charities - no strings attached. The best part is, event organisers get to pick the charity. We...

Huntington's Victoria
⊜ 16 Wakefield St Hawthorn
Huntington's Victoria (HV) is a not for profit organisation funded by the Victorian Government and public sources. We are the only specialist service in Victoria to support and assist people affected...

Isabella and Marcus Paediatric Brainstem Tumour Fund
⊜ Mordialloc
Isabella and Marcus lost their lives to a little known brain tumour called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). This tumour occurs in the brainstem, most frequently in children between the...

Jacobs Well
⊜ PO Box 680 Glen Waverley
Jacob's Well hopes to break the poverty cycle by sinking fresh water wells in villages, establishing a health clinic, adult literacy classes, work skills training, small start up loans, and providing...

John So, He's My Bro
⊜ . Melbourne
$4 from every 'John So, He's My Bro' CD sale is donated to the Lord Mayor's Charitable Fund, known as Melbourne's 'defender of the powerless, unpopular and poor'. The single by The Music Men will...

Karma Currency Foundation
⊜ Level 1, 6 Charles St South Melbourne
Instead of giving platters, socks, photo frames and other useless gifts Karma Currency allows companies and individuals to give the gift of tax deductible Charity Gift Vouchers. This Charitable...

Kathleen Keegel Children's Fund
⊜ Melbourne
Kathleen Keegel Children's Fund (KKCF) manages a boys' home, a kindergarten, an agricultural project and currently initiating a training facility in Sri Lanka. Kathleen's daughter Olivia and her...

KIDS Foundation
⊜ Wendouree
KIDS is an acronym for Kids In Dangerous Situations and we exist to try to redress the startling childhood injury statistics in Australia. Every day, more than 5,000 children are injured...

Kids Under Cover
⊜ 383 Swan St, Richmond
Kids Under Cover believes every young person has a right to a safe and secure place to call home and a sound education. We work to make that belief a reality. Kids Under Cover supports...

Kids with Cancer Foundation
⊜ Melbourne
Kids with Cancer Foundation is totally non-profit. All profits raised from the raffles and donations are donated back to the State from which the funds originated. Kids with Cancer Foundation...

Kind Cuts for Kids
⊜ Moorabbin
Kind Cuts for Kids is an Australian based organisation that exists to provide specialist medical care for children in developing countries around the world. Kind Cuts is a non-government,...

knit one give one
⊜ Caulfield
The knit one give one (KOGO) army knits garments for charity. kogo supplies approximately 80 different organisations that fall into the following broad categories: -:- Crisis accommodation -:-...

Legacy
⊜ Australia
Legacy, supporting the families of our veterans. We are there for the partners and the children of those who gave their lives or their health for our country. We provide the essential social,...

Les Twentyman Foundation
⊜ Footscray
The 20th Man Fund believes every young person deserves a future free of poverty abuse violence discrimination and isolation. Working across Greater Melbourne our dedicated team supports hundreds...

Leukaemia Foundation
⊜ Level 1, 340 Bell Street Preston
The Leukaemia Foundation is the only national not for profit organisation dedicated to the care and cure of patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood...

Life's Little Treasures Foundation
⊜ Level 1, 203 Riversdale Road Hawthorn
The Life's Little Treasures Foundation is Australia's foremost charity dedicated to providing support, friendship and information, specifically tailored for families of children born premature or...

Lighthouse Foundation
⊜ 13 Adolph Street, Richmond
Lighthouse Foundation Giving Homeless Kids a Future The Problem: In Australia, over 105,000 people are homeless on any given night. Around half of them are under 24 years of age. The...

Little Sisters of the Poor
⊜ 112B St George's Road, Northcote
The Little Sisters of the Poor arrived in Melbourne on 5 November 1884 and quickly set to work caring for elderly and destitute citizens from a terrace house in Victoria Parade, Fitzroy. A few...

Love Your Sister
⊜ Melbourne
Love Your Sister is a million-strong village of everyday Aussies committed to vanquishing cancer with hard science and the best new technologies. Love Your Sister supports treatment for ALL...

m.a.d.woman
⊜ Melbourne Melbourne
m.a.d.woman is committed to encouraging, inspiring and enabling people to make a positive difference in the environment, community and to the lives of people who need support. Anyone can make a...

Maddie Riewoldt's Vision
⊜ Melbourne
Maddie Riewoldt's Vision Bone marrow failure syndrome #FightLikeMaddie Maddie Riewoldt's Vision is an initiative of the Snowdome Foundation, a registered Deductible Gift Recipient with the...

Make-A-Wish Australia
⊜ Level 1, 620 Church Street Richmond
Make-A-Wish Australia is a non-profit organisation; its mission is to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and...

Maneki Neko Cat Rescue
⊜ Lower Templestowe
Maneki Neko Cat Rescue is a registered charity operating in Victoria, Australia. Maneki Neko Cat Rescue was established in 2012 after many years of informal rescue. Maneki Neko is specifically...

Margaret Pratt Foundation
⊜ 15 Brookville Road Toorak
The Margaret Pratt Foundation Heart Lung Transplant Trust is a registered charity whose aim is to encourage, develop and maintain Australia's world class expertise in the field of organ...

McAuley Community Services for Women
⊜ 18 Robertson Street, Kensington
McAuley Community Services for Women provides much needed services for women and their children who are escaping family violence, and for women who are homeless. Following in the footsteps of...

McGrath Foundation
⊜ Melbourne
A story well known in Australia, Jane and Glenn McGrath's much-publicised experience with breast cancer led to the formation of what has become one of Australia's most respected and recognised...

Melbourne City Mission
⊜ 164-180 Kings Way South Melbourne
We're Melbourne's oldest charity on a mission to end disadvantage and improve the lives of every person in Victoria suffering hardship. Melbourne City Mission is a charity organisation that...

Melbourne Op Shops
⊜ Melbourne
Regardless of what we call them.. Op Shops, Opportunity Shops, Bargain Centres and Charity shops are great places to pick-up a bargain and support charities. Below is a list of the best known...

Menzies Inc
⊜ Frankston
Menzies Inc is a not for profit organisation which provides, through funding and partnership opportunities, support to equip young people who can no longer live with their natural families, with the...

Mind Australia
⊜ Melbourne
Mind Australia is a leading provider of community mental health services. We support people to live connected, productive and satisfying lives. Established nearly 40 years ago, Mind Australia is...

Mouth and Foot Painting Artists
⊜ Alexandria
The Mouth and Foot Painting Artists has been operating in Australia since 1971. The Australian MFPA is a member of the International Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists, which conducts...

MS | Multiple Sclerosis Australia
⊜ 54 Railway Rd Blackburn
Multiple Sclerosis Society has been supporting and helping people with multiple sclerosis (MS) since 1956. Through an extensive network of centres, branches, support groups and health services,...

Muscular Dystrophy Australia
⊜ 111 Boundary Road North Melbourne
Muscular Dystrophy Australia (MDA) was established in 1984 as a support group for families who were affected by Muscular Dystrophy (MD). The growth of MDA has been commensurate with the societal...

mycause
⊜ Melbourne
mycause is a social enterprise established in 2007 to allow charities, volunteer organisations and community groups the potential to utilise the power of the internet to enhance their fundraising...

Myeloma Foundation of Australia Inc
⊜ 335 Swan St, Richmond
The Myeloma Foundation of Australia is passionate about assisting and improving the quality of life of Australians living with myeloma. MY Foundation understands the myeloma experience and...

National Breast Cancer Foundation
⊜ Melbourne
The National Breast Cancer Foundation is the leading community-funded organisation in Australia raising money for research into the prevention and cure of breast cancer. We are privileged to work...

Needy Stitches
⊜ Carrum Downs
We are a group of people who knit, sew or crochet items for donation to the needy of Melbourne. We are looking for people with these talents to help us to bring a smile to someone in need....

Neko HQ | Cat Lounge
⊜ 120 Regent St Preston
The Cat Lounge at Neko HQ in Preston is a luxurious space to relax and enjoy the company of cats. No cages, just spaces for cats and kittens to be the most curious, cutest and engaging creatures...

Nepal Glaucoma Eye Clinic Association
⊜ Brighton
Created in Melbourne, the Nepal Glaucoma Eye Clinic has treated more than 3,000 patients per year since 2006, both at the Tilganga Eye Centre (Kathmandu) and in outreach programs. Any help and...

New Melbourne Browncoats
⊜ Grattan Street Parkville
In 2011, Melbourne Browncoats became New Melbourne Browncoats, Inc. Why the change? We believe that the best way to preserve and build our local Browncoat community, both now and in the future, is...

Noahs Ark
⊜ 1283 Malvern Road Malvern
Noah's Ark is a not-for-profit community organisation providing early childhood intervention and inclusion support services to children with disabilities and other additional needs. We are the...

Odyssey House Victoria
⊜ 660 Bridge Road Richmond
Odyssey House recognises that alcohol and other drug problems can have a significant impact on children and other family members. The aim of Odyssey House is to create and sustain environments for...

Ovarian Cancer Australia
⊜ Level 1, 210 Lonsdale Street Melbourne
Ovarian Cancer Australia was founded by people directly affected by ovarian cancer who wanted to raise awareness of the disease and support those who had been affected. This group included Nicole...

Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation (OCRF)
⊜ 2/59 Keele Street Collingwood
The OCRF is Australia's leading national body dedicated to funding ovarian cancer research The Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation Inc (OCRF) was established in May 2000, Australia's pre-eminent...

Oxfam Australia
⊜ 132 Leicester Street, Carlton
Oxfam Australia is part of a global movement of dedicated people working hard to fight poverty and injustice. Join the global movement dedicated to fighting poverty and injustice around the...

Oz Child
⊜ Level 3, 150 Albert Road, South Melbourne
Oz Child is a not-for-profit organisation which aims to enhance the opportunities and well being of children and young people, especially those who are disadvantaged or at risk. Oz Child, through...

OzHarvest | Rescuing Food for Charity
⊜ 738 Waverley Rd Malvern East
OzHarvest collects excess food and delivers it, free of charge, to organizations that feed disadvantaged men, women and children in our community. Every day in our city, thousands of kilos of...

Prahran Mission
⊜ 211 Chapel Street Prahran
Established in 1946 Prahran Mission, an agency of the Uniting Church in Australia, provides emergency relief services to those experiencing poverty, homelessness and economic disadvantage as well as...

Project Walk | Melbourne
⊜ Melbourne
The goal of Project Walk Melbourne is an advanced boot camp centre for people with Spinal Cord Injury located on the outskirts of Melbourne. We're a group of people who've been brought together as...

Purple Soup
⊜ Mount Martha
Purple Soup provides challenging, activity based programs for children and their families affected by serious illness. These adventures are designed to rebuild confidence, self esteem, trust and...

Pyjama Foundation
⊜ Melbourne
The Pyjama Foundation was founded in 2004 to give children in foster care the opportunity to change the direction of their lives with learning life skills and confidence. Alarmed at the statistics...

Raise Foundation
⊜ Level 1, 118 Lee Street, Carlton North
Raise Foundation is a registered Australian charity which provides mentoring programs for young people in high schools and in the community. Our mentoring programs provide a community of support...

Reach Foundation
⊜ 152-156 Wellington St Collingwood
Reach has been making a positive impact in the lives of young Australians for nearly two decades. Reach believes that every young person should have the support and self-belief they need to fulfil...

Reach Out
⊜ Melbourne
Here you'll find a whole bunch of info on Reach Out!, our projects, our partners, how you can get involved, resources, and what inspires us to do the work we do....

Ready Set: Wear For Success
⊜ Melbourne
Ready Set (managed by Wear for Success) was established as Wear for Success in 2011 by a group of dedicated individuals, many of who are still involved. They recognised that helping people...

Reclink Australia
⊜ 115B Ferrars Street, South Melbourne
We are committed to encouraging people experiencing disadvantage to become actively involved in sport, recreation and arts programs to ensure positive health outcomes throughout the...

Red Nose | SIDS & Kids
⊜ Suite 17, 75 Lorimer Street Docklands
Red Nose is Australia's leading authority on safe sleep and pregnancy, and bereavement support for families affected by the death of a child. Annually, 3,200 Australian families experience the...

Redkite: A lifeline for families facing childhood cancer
⊜ Australia
Holding it together when your child's life is in question can feel impossible. Redkite provides the practical, emotional and financial support for families who have a child with cancer aged 18 or...

Riding for the Disabled Association of Victoria
⊜ 400 Epsom Road, Flemington
RDAV is a grass roots volunteer based organisation which has 36 centres, 1200 riders, 1100 volunteers and 200 coaches across Victoria. We are proud to have offered our services for 40 years in...

ripple
⊜ www.ripple.org Melbourne
ripple generates money for charity in two unique ways: Click links to fight poverty. Search to fight poverty. ripple works because it is a win for everybody ripplers (that's you) have...

Rotary Clubs in Melbourne
⊜ Melbourne
A listing of all Rotary clubs in Metropolitan Melbourne with links to full details for meeting places and times. Rotary Clubs of Melbourne Albert Park Wed 6.00 for 6.30 start Livesaving...

RSPCA Victoria
⊜ Corner Burwood Hwy and Middleborough Rd Burwood East
RSPCA = Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Victoria) The Victorian Society for the Protection of Animals was established in 1871. The RSPCA boasts a magnificent shelter...

Sacred Heart Mission
⊜ 87 Grey Street St Kilda
Sacred Heart Mission has a long history of effectively assisting the most disadvantaged members of our community to rebuild their lives, since opening our doors in 1982. Our network of second...

Salvation Army | Doncaster
⊜ 37 Taunton St Doncaster East
Doncaster Salvation Army centre services the needs of the very large City of Manningham. We commenced 'replanting' three years ago, this is being slowly achieved through a 'community development'...

Save the Children
⊜ 33 Lincoln Square South, Carlton
Save the Children is Australia's leading independent emergency relief and development organisation for children. Save the Children is committed to creating a world where every child has a safe &...

Scope
⊜ 18 St Heliers Street Abbotsford
Scope is one of the largest providers of services to people with a disability in Victoria, and one of the largest not-for-profit organisations in Australia. Our mission is to support people with a...

SecondBite Australia
⊜ 73 McClure Road, Kensington
SecondBite rescues and redistributes fresh, nutritious food to over 1,100 community food programs across Australia. Since 2005, SecondBite has redistributed over 12.5 million kilograms of food,...

Seeing Eye Dogs Australia
⊜ 17 Barrett Street Kensington
From its inception in 1960, Seeing Eye Dogs Australia, a division of Vision Australia, has remained a user-driven organisation. The attention, care and involvement we give to each of our clients...

Short Back & Sidewalks
⊜ Melbourne
Haircuts for the Homeless - Free of Charge, Free of Judgement Short Back & Sidewalks, the project offering haircuts to those in need, is officially registered as a Not-For-Profit organisation....

Song Room
⊜ 144 High Street, Prahran
The Song Room is a national not-for-profit organisation that brightens the futures of Australia's most disadvantaged children with tailored, high-quality music and arts programs, delivered in...

Spina Bifida Foundation of Victoria Inc
⊜ 4th Floor Ross House, 247 - 251 Flinders Lane Melbourne
The Spina Bifida Foundation of Victoria was founded in the mid 1990s by a group of parents, physiotherapists and doctors concerned about improving services for people with spina bifida, the second...

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Association of Australia Inc.
⊜ Suite 28 Building 4. 195 Wellington Rd Clayton
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Association of Australia Inc. are dedicated to providing support to those suffering from all types of SMA along with their families! Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a...

St Mary's House of Welcome
⊜ 165-169 Brunswick St Fitzroy
St Mary's House of Welcome stands with the vulnerable and disadvantaged, offering support, solutions and hope. Each year, St Mary's House of Welcome serves over 42,000 meals and provides...

Starlight Children's Foundation
⊜ 128 Jolimont Rd, East Melbourne
Our mission is to brighten the lives of all seriously ill and hospitalised children and their families, throughout Australia. Our hospital programs include Starlight Express Rooms, Starlight Fun...

Storehouse Charity
⊜ Windsor
Storehouse Charity supports men and women struggling with addiction via our rehab clinic. Storehouse is a charity that was formed out of a genuine concern and passion for reaching and impacting...

STREAT
⊜ Collingwood
In Victoria, there are over 7000 12-24 year olds living on the streets each night. STREAT wants to these young people with a pathway off the street and into a secure job within the foodservice...

Street Smart
⊜ PO Box 9100 Camberwell
StreetSmart Australia was established in 2003 to support and strengthen smaller, grassroots community organisations helping the homeless. These smaller organisations are critical in helping many...

Street Smart Life Packs
⊜ Hawthorn
You see them every day, now it is your turn to step up and make a difference. By giving back some simple necessities that people use every day without thinking you can put some colour back into...

Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes Foundation
⊜ Noble Park
Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndrome or Sudden Adult Death Syndrome as the title implies, culminates in a person dying very suddenly and unexpectedly. Sudden death in the family is particularly...

Summer Foundation
⊜ Melbourne
Established in 2006, the Summer Foundation is committed to growing a movement that will resolve the issue of young people living in nursing homes. Supporting, informing and empowering people with...

Supertee: Support Australia's Sickest Kids
⊜ PO Box 511 GREYSTANES
Our aim is to support Australia's sickest kids as they battle long-term illness. With your help, we can provide a Supertee (the coolest medical garment) to these children wherever they are around...

Support Act
⊜ Melbourne
The heart & hand of Australian Music Support Act is a charity, unique in Australia, helping artists, roadies and music workers who are facing hardship due to illness, injury or some other crisis...

The Alannah and Madeline Foundation
⊜ Level 1, 256 Clarendon Street South Melbourne
The Alannah and Madeline Foundation is a national charity protecting children from violence and its devastating impact. The Foundation was set up in memory of Alannah and Madeline Mikac, aged 6...

The Babes Project
⊜ Kilsyth
The Babes Project is changing the way Australians approach crisis pregnancy by supporting women in the perinatal period. By addressing challenges and allowing space for her to create a future for...

The Big Issue
⊜ Melbourne
The Big Issue is an independent, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting and creating work opportunities for people experiencing homelessness, marginalisation and disadvantage. The Big...

The Butterfly Foundation
⊜ PO Box 453 Malvern
The Butterfly Foundation was founded in August 2002 by Claire Vickery who found many 'gaps' in the public health system for those suffering from eating disorders. The Foundation is a community...

The Conscious Closet
⊜ 513 Bridge Road Richmond
The Conscious Closet is the retail social enterprise for not-for-profit organisation Fitted for Work. The Conscious Closet is "more than just your average" Op Shop exclusively stocking women's...

The East West Overseas Aid Foundation
⊜ 247 Flinders Lane Melbourne
The East West Overseas Aid Foundation is a volunteer driven Australian overseas aid foundation which aims to ease the suffering of disadvantaged people overseas through a range of health care, child...

The Gutsy Challenge
⊜ Melbourne
The Gutsy Challenge is the largest national healthy eating activity for children in Australia. It is a cancer fundraiser that challenges children to eating 2 fruit and 4 veg a day for 1...

The Kids' Cancer Project
⊜ Melbourne
The Kids' Cancer Project is an independent national charity supporting childhood cancer research. Since 1993, thanks to strong community support, the charity has contributed tens of millions of...

The Male Hug | Men's Mental Health
⊜ Australia
Support Men's Mental Health The Male Hug is an initiative that seeks to raise the awareness of men's mental health, and promote the open dialogue of this often sensitive issue. Mental health...

The OTIS Foundation
⊜ Shop 24, Bendigo Bank Central, Bendigo
The OTIS Foundation is a charity dedicated to providing a national network of retreat accommodation properties at no cost to anyone who has faced the challenges of breast cancer. The hundreds of...

The SALT Foundation
⊜ 101 Ramu Parade, Heidelberg West
The SALT Foundation vision is to be partnering in our small way with those on the journey to make poverty history. With those who stand for justice and advocate basic human rights for...

The Salvation Army
⊜ 1, 828 Sydney Road Coburg North
God help the salvo's - who do a fantastic job.. pop along and see them! One of the more distinctive denominations of the Christian Church, The Salvation Army operates as both a church and a...

The Smith Family
⊜ 73 Wellington Street, Collingwood
The Smith Family is a national charity helping young Australians in need to get the most out of their education, so they can create better futures for themselves. Our vision A better future for...

The Trading Circle
⊜ Abbotsford
The Good Shepherd Trading Circle is a non-profit company established by the Good Shepherd Sisters in Australia in 1995 to support women in micro-enterprises initiated by the Sisters...

The Victorian Woodpeckers Association
⊜ Eltham
A non-profit charitable organisation based within the furniture industry of Victoria, Australia, Woodpeckers provide furniture and services for under-privileged children in Victoria. Money is raised...

The Warwick Cancer Foundation
⊜ Suite 6, Level 2, 902 Mt Alexander Road, Essendon
Our mission is to improve the cancer journey for all young adults living with cancer in Australia. The Warwick Cancer Foundation is the first non-profit organisation in Australia focused on...

The Warwick Foundation
⊜ Melbourne
Australia's largest charitable foundation supporting young adults aged 18 to 40 on their cancer journey. PHONE: 1300 705 280...

The Wishbone Foundation
⊜ 436 Redbank-Barkly Road Barkly
The Wishbone Foundation provides free pet care services to the elderly and disabled members of the community. The Wishbone Foundation contributes to the Australian community by offering care to...

Three Legged Chair Op Shop
⊜ 18 Progress St, Mornington
The Three Legged Chair Op Shop sells quality secondhand furniture, clothing, books, electrical & homewares... CHEAP! The Three Legged Chair Op-Shop has been running since 2003, with all profits...

TLC for Kids
⊜ 140A Dawson Street, Brunswick West
TLC for Kids is a registered children's charity dedicated to giving practical and emotional support to sick kids and their families across Australia. As soon as they receive a request or referral...

Tour de Cure
⊜ Melbourne
Tour de Cure exists to cover ground to cure cancer. We choose to ride a bike as our vehicle to cure cancer as it also promotes a healthy lifestyle, which is a key element of cancer...

Trevor Barker Foundation
⊜ St Kilda
The Trevor Barker Foundation was established to continue the memory and inspirational work of a remarkable man. Trevor Barker was an inspiring player for St. Kilda Football Club for over 14...

TRY Australia
⊜ Building 2, 1st Floor, 88 Ricketts Road Mount Waverley
TRY delivers a brighter future through learning and community programmes... for those who TRY! TRY Australia is a charity based in Mount Waverley that focuses on the needs of children, youth,...

Uniting AgeWell | Strathdon Community
⊜ Langwarrin
Strathdon Community holds a number of fundraising and community events each year. Uniting AgeWell is a leading provider of aged care services in Victoria and Tasmania, currently providing services...

Uniting Vic.Tas
⊜ Head Office: 130 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Uniting Vic.Tas is the community services organisation of the Uniting Church, delivering services and programs across Victoria and Tasmania. We strive to make a difference for individuals,...

UrCommunity
⊜ Corner Millers Rd and McArthurs Rd Altona North
UrCommunity is building community as well as promoting self-sufficiency, food security and access to free meals for the disadvantaged. This will also be through a range of inter related social...

Variety | The Children's Charity
⊜ 63-85 Turner Street, Port Melbourne
Children growing up with disability, serious illness or disadvantage need help from a special charity. That charity is Variety - the Children's Charity. Variety works with individual families...

Very Special Kids
⊜ 321 Glenferrie Rd Malvern
Very Special Kids is a unique organisation that supports families throughout their experience of caring for children with life-threatening illnesses, from diagnosis through to recovery or...

Victoria's not-for-profit Organisations
⊜ Melbourne
Pathways Australia guide to Victoria's not-for-profit organisations The 'Guide to Australia's Not-For-Profit Organisations' is the most comprehensive and used directory of its type ever...

Victorian AIDS Council
⊜ St Kilda
Victorian AIDS Council aims to build our community's independence, dignity and wellbeing. Leading our community in the fight against HIV/AIDS and STIs. We work to confront the continuing...

Vision Australia
⊜ 454 Glenferrie Road Kooyong
Vision Australia provides a broad range of services for people who are blind or vision impaired. Vision Australia works with people to enable them to experience life to its fullest. We offer a...

Vision Australia Op Shops
⊜ Head office: 454 Glenferrie Rd Kooyong
Vision Australia is a living partnership between people who are blind, sighted or have low vision. We are united by our passion that in the future people who are blind or have low vision will have...

Wavecare Counselling
⊜ Level 1/2 Euneva Ave, Glen Waverley
Wavecare has been providing support to people in the City of Monash for more than 40 years, helping individuals in need of assistance due to illness, loss, grief, abuse, anxiety, depression,...

Whitehorse Community Chest
⊜ 10/27 Bank St, Box Hill
Established 1962, the Whitehorse Community Chest has supported local charities, welfare agencies and community groups addressing the needs of the disadvantaged in the Whitehorse community for over 50...

Whitelion
⊜ 155 Roden Street West Melbourne
Whitelion is a non-profit community organisation that provides youth-focused gender and culturally specific services in several areas which include; mentoring, employment, role modeling, specialist...

Who Gives A Crap
⊜ Melbourne
We donate 50% of our profits to ensure everyone has access to clean water and a toilet within our lifetime And with your help, we'll get there. Good for the world We're B Corp certified for...

Wombat's Wish
⊜ Geelong
Each year, approximately 30 children in the Geelong area experience the death of a parent. Currently, no specialist service exists that offer professional support to these children. This is an...

World's Biggest Garage Sale
⊜ Australia
World's Biggest Garage Sale raises money for worthy causes, turning dormant goods from households and businesses into much needed impact. As a social enterprise WBGS is leading the charge toward...

Y-House Foundation
⊜ Melbourne
The Y-House Foundation is a non-profit, charitable institution set up to benefit the growing needs of young people living in aged care. The Y-House Foundation is committed to raising funds for the...

YGAP
⊜ 111 Swan Street Richmond
YGAP is an incubator for social change. We run creative fundraising and social enterprises to support youth education and leadership. At YGAP, we are entrepreneurs that change lives. Our aim is...

Youth Projects
⊜ 7/9 Hosier Lane Melbourne
We tackle tough problems in the front line: Youth unemployment, homelessness, mental health, alcohol and drug use, apprenticeships, training, counselling, free medical clinic, drink/drive assessment,...

Zaidee's Rainbow Foundation
⊜ P. O. Box 2220 Shepparton
We are seeking support to help raise awareness of organ and tissue donation by placing an order for Zaidee's Rainbow Shoelaces. Our first aim is to make organ and tissue donation and awareness...