Meet our latest grant partners

Whether advocating for climate action, accessible healthcare or workers’ rights, our latest grant partners all share a deep commitment to justice — each challenging systems that entrench disadvantage to build a more just and sustainable society.

Trans Justice Project
Focus area: gender justice

Earlier this year, Queensland’s Health Minister announced an immediate pause on initiating hormone treatments for trans and gender diverse people under 18 in the public health system. Left unchallenged, the Trans Justice Project knew that the move could set a dangerous precedent for other states to block access to this life-changing, and often life-saving, healthcare.

Within 48 hours, the Project’s small team launched the Protect Trans Youth National Day of Action, calling on people around the country to organise rallies in their local communities. Over 16,300 people rallied at 21 events nationwide — the largest mobilisation for trans justice in Australian history.

“There’s still work ahead to fully defeat this ban, but this mobilisation sent a powerful message,” says Trans Justice Project Director Jackie Turner. “We refused to let others dictate the terms of the conversation; we centred the voices of trans young people and their families and told the story of why trans healthcare needs to be accessible and affordable for everyone who needs it.”

We’re proud to have supported this work and are delighted to extend our partnership with the Trans Justice Project with further unrestricted funding over the coming year. In the months ahead, the Project will continue to apply pressure on the Queensland Government to reinstate care for trans young people. It will launch training across the country to grow an active network of leaders. And it will initiate a new campaign to fight for the kind of healthcare the trans community deserves — an affordable and accessible system that centres their community’s well-being and expertise.

Jubilee Australia
Focus area: environmental justice

Australia’s renewable energy transition is well underway, powered by our abundant supplies of sun and wind, but also something less visible — the mining of critical minerals.

From solar batteries to wind turbines, renewable energy technologies need critical minerals, including lithium, nickel and cobalt, to work. For a cleaner, fairer future, our approach to mining these minerals cannot be ‘extraction as usual’.

While civil society groups, including Jubilee Australia, have welcomed the Australian Government’s Critical Minerals Strategy, they are urging far stronger regulations to prevent significant social and environmental damage, warning that “we risk replicating the mistakes made with fossil fuel extraction unless we implement smarter regulations”. Echoing these concerns, academics have argued that current policy extends the ‘frontier mentality’ of traditional mining rather than fostering a model aligned with environmental justice and First Nations rights.

Our funding will enable Jubilee Australia to continue its work with communities, civil society, industry, the financial sector and governments to ensure that the extraction of critical and transition minerals respects the rights of First Peoples, minimises damage to ecosystems and communities, and resists over-extraction, guiding the conversation to consider recycling, re-use and energy efficiency — not just mining.

This is a complex area, and the stakes are high. It’s critical that a strong and coordinated civil society voice influences the future of transition mineral extraction in Australia.

First Nations Workers Alliance
Focus areas: First Nations justice, economic justice

All Australians deserve the opportunity to secure decent, steady work and the dignity that comes with it. Yet under the Community Development Program (CDP) — a work-for-the-dole scheme widely condemned as punitive, discriminatory and ineffective — tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been denied that opportunity.

Since its launch in 2017, the First Nations Workers Alliance has led the fight for wage justice for CDP workers. Their advocacy helped secure the Australian Government’s commitment to replace the scheme, and they are now working to ensure its replacement delivers fair pay and meaningful opportunities in remote communities.

This campaign is part of the Alliance’s broader mission to advance First Nations workers’ rights and strengthen the relationship between First Nations communities and the trade union movement. The Alliance is also collaborating with Diversity Council Australia, Reconciliation Australia, and the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research on a national anti-racism at work campaign.

We’re delighted to provide unrestricted support for the Alliance’s work, which complements our support for First Nations economic justice through our membership of Mannifera and our impact investment in First Australians Capital.

Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network (AEGN)
Focus area: environmental justice

We know the problems we seek to solve are too big to tackle alone, which is why collaboration and partnership are central to the Reichstein Foundation’s philosophy.

As one of the founding partners of the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network (AEGN), we’re delighted to contribute unrestricted support over the next three years in recognition of the opportunities for collaboration and support the AEGN provides, and its work to strengthen environmental philanthropy.

“The AEGN’s strong seventeen-year history of enabling impact is a testament to what can be achieved when we work together,” says AEGN CEO Claire O’Rourke. “When we come together with common passion and purpose and focus our action and influence where and when it counts, our resources catalyse action from policymakers, industry experts, corporate leaders and millions of everyday people in communities across Australia.”

As the AEGN makes clear, the stakes couldn’t be higher: “In 2024, global temperature records were broken again — now at 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels. More than 2,200 species and ecological communities are on the national threatened species list, and at least 19 ecosystems are showing signs of collapse. Weather events are becoming more frequent and more intense. These truths are hard to face, but we must face them head on: for the places we love, for our children and their children too.”

Bush Music Fund
Focus areas: First Nations justice, economic justice

It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture, so here’s a recommended soundtrack: Loving and Caring by Ripple Effect Band; Pikilyi by the James Range Band and — buckle up! — Young Men by Mulga Bore Hard Rock.

Listening to these bands — all proudly supported by the Bush Music Fund — drives home the Fund’s core proposition: that songwriting and performing is an essential vehicle for cultural awareness, understanding and connection between First Nations artists and the rest of Australia.

The Fund’s support includes mentoring, instruments, recording, video clip production, publicity and digital marketing, merchandise and touring — and any other support the band may be looking for.

By helping bands and musicians from remote First Nations communities overcome the barriers they face to the mainstream music industry, Bush Music Fund is creating real economic opportunities not just for artists, but for their families and communities. The ripple effects go beyond income: in many communities, music is a powerful force for connection, pride and cultural strength, resonating far beyond the stage.

It’s a joy to be able to support these incredible bands through our partnership with the Bush Music Fund; our thanks to Mannifera’s First Nations Advisory Committee for introducing us and to Lore Germain for her bequest enabling the partnership.