Powering the progressive movement: meet our latest grant partners

Following our latest grant rounds, we’ve renewed support for several valued partners and welcomed two new partners to the fold. Collectively, they’re taking on some of Australia’s most entrenched social and environmental challenges with courage and conviction.

Partners from our latest two grant rounds: Tomorrow Movement | WELA | Trans Justice Project | Rainbow Giving Australia | Alliance for Gambling Reform | Antipoverty Centre | Bush Music Fund | Dhadjowa Foundation (new) | Commons Social Change Library (new)

Backing bold movements for change

Our vision is an equal and just society on healthy country. Achieving this requires strong, skilled movements led by the people closest to the challenges.

We’ve backed the youth-led Tomorrow Movement since its beginning and are proud to extend our support. Under its new strategy, Tomorrow Movement is mobilising young people at scale by speaking to the insecurity shaping their lives — housing, work, cost of living and climate — and creating practical pathways to collective action.

We’re also continuing our support for long-term partner Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) as it embarks on a new strategic plan. The strategy builds collective power through leadership, connection and influence, turning individual leadership into systems change.

Holding the line

Progress can trigger backlash, and this year that’s been felt acutely by the trans community, with the rise of One Nation in Australia increasing the scale and severity of attacks on their community. Already this year, our partner Trans Justice Project has had to defend legal protections in the Sex Discrimination Act, protections which have been uncontroversial and uncontested for some 15 years. In this climate, multi-year, unrestricted funding matters. We’re pleased to offer this to the Trans Justice Project as it works to build a powerful, trans-led movement fighting for freedom, justice and equality for all trans and gender-diverse people.

That same commitment to community-led power extends to our continued support for Rainbow Giving Australia’s GiveOUT Day, which has raised more than $2 million to date for over 150 LGBTQIA+ organisations.

Pursuing economic justice

Gambling reform is a fight for social and economic justice.

Australians lose $32 billion on gambling each year — the world’s highest per capita losses, driven by weak regulation, aggressive marketing and sustained industry influence. The Alliance for Gambling Reform, a Reichstein Foundation grant partner since 2015, has led sustained advocacy to change this.

In April, the Alliance helped secure a federal gambling reform package, but the subsequent reforms, passed by Parliament in August, fall far short. The changes still don’t deliver the comprehensive gambling advertising ban recommended by the landmark Murphy Report. Children will continue to see gambling advertising, sport will remain tied to wagering, and families will continue to experience preventable gambling harm.

We’re proud to continue our support for the Alliance and its ongoing fight for stronger laws, an end to the saturation of gambling advertising, and genuine protections for Australian families.

That same fight for economic justice runs through our partnership with the Antipoverty Centre, a highly influential organisation focused on economic justice for those who experience the most harm under our current system.

A collective of activists, advocates and researchers with direct experience of poverty and unemployment, the Antipoverty Centre’s mission is to shift how people speak about and respond to poverty and unemployment.  Over the next year, its work will focus on the intersection of housing and climate justice, and employment services and social security rights.

Through the Lore Germain Bequest, we’re also delighted to re-grant to the Bush Music Fund, whose work sits at the intersection of First Nations and economic justice.  The Fund is currently working with new remote First Nations artists and planning a tour for Docker River Band in Victoria at the end of the year.

Welcoming new partners

Aboriginal deaths in custody are now at their highest level in more than 40 years. The Dhadjowa Foundation supports grieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities to navigate the system, while also working to address the systemic issues surrounding Aboriginal deaths in custody. We’re proud to back this critical work.

We’re also pleased, for the first time, to support The Commons Social Change Library, a free online resource for people working for social change. In 2025 alone, around 500,000 users accessed the library, putting vital resources into the hands of changemakers worldwide. Through practical tools and thoughtful curation, The Commons helps make social movements stronger and smarter — work we’re delighted to support.