Impact100 WA, 100 Women and Meridian Global Foundation donated a collective $506,000 to 11 charities this week.
Impact100 WA, 100 Women and Meridian Global Foundation donated a collective $506,000 to 11 charities this week.
All three giving circles work in a similar way: members contribute about $1,000 or more a year and vote on what charity their collective donation goes to.
Impact100 WA held its function on Tuesday night and gave away $340,000 to five charities.
Arts Law Centre of Australia, a legal centre for artists, seniors bike riding charity Cycling Without Age and child protection advocacy group Family Inclusion Network of WA received $100,000 each.
Runners up Trillion Trees Australia and Special Olympics Western Australia were awarded $20,000 each for their projects.
100 Women donated about $116,000 to three charities at an event on Friday.
The giving circle chooses charities which make change for women and girls locally and internationally and accepts annual donations of under $1,000.
In 2021, $40,000 was given to Forever Projects, which partners with women in Tanzania to break the cycle of poverty, reproductive advocacy group Children by Choice was awarded $40,000 and Midland-based youth organisation Koya Aboriginal Corporation received $35,965.
Meridian Global Foundation held its event last night.
Its model is slightly different.
Meridian Global Foundation raised $156,000, gave away $50,000 to three charities and is going to invest $106,000 so one day the foundation can give away $1 million a year in perpetuity.
Lyfe Languages, an organisation which is bringing medical professionals together with indigenous communities to translate medical terms into Aboriginal languages, was awarded $25,000, a group helping people in Tanzania, Australia for Cedar Tanzania, was given $15,000 and Child in Need Institute, which supports the education of children in Kolkata in India, took home $10,000.
