Youth

• Artful Dodgers Studios - A flexible and welcoming studio space in Collingwood where young people aged 15 to 27 years can create art and music with the support of experienced artists and musicians.

• 100 Story Building - A social enterprise developing creativity and literacy for children and young people, through workshop programs, online learning and community engagement.

• The Song Room - Brightens the future for young people across Australia through impactful arts learning programs delivered in partnership with schools and communities.

• Artists for Kids Culture - Provides small grants to enable children and young people, aged 5-17, who are experiencing hardship to participate in a broad range of artistic and cultural activities. These activities include dance, music, drama and other cultural experiences. 

• The artsbus is a mobile arts studio, theatre and music space, enabling Artists for Kids Culture to facilitate meaningful, thoughtful and therapeutic arts activities. It brings quality arts practices to children who would otherwise miss out.

• The Venny- The Venny is a free communal backyard and safe space for children aged 5 to 16 located in JJ Holland Park, Kensington.  It is a space where kids can engage in risk-taking play, creativity and connectedness with other young people.

Music

• Wild At Heart works with artists who experience injustice and exclusion through visible and invisible disability. We support the creation original music which challenges artistic expectations, leading change for access and equity in music culture, industry and society.

• The Push- An Australian youth music organisation and registered charity based in Melbourne.

• Community Music Victoria - a not for profit, membership based organisation working to support, promote and facilitate community music-making across Victorian communities.

Film

• BIRRARANGGA Film Festival aims to advance and promote Indigenous filmmakers by encouraging innovative ways of thinking, creating and developing all Indigenous forms of the art of Cinema. Their festival facilitates dialogue and encourages collaboration between Indigenous filmmakers and Indigenous communities in Australia and across the globe.

Performing Arts

• The Australian Cultural Fund(ACF) is a fundraising platform for Australian artists.Through the ACF, artists upload their project, start their fundraising campaign and invite art lovers and supporters to donate with 100% of donations going directly towards artists’ creative projects.

• Next Wave is a leading not-for-profit arts organisation that, since 1984, has played a pivotal role in supporting early-career practitioners working across multiple art forms. Next Wave creates spaces for connection, experimentation and investment through mentorship programs, public programs and venue hire.

Access and Wellbeing Programs

• Arts Centre Melbourne - Bringing people of all ages, abilities, genders and cultural or socioeconomic backgrounds to Arts Centre Melbourne, keeping the performing arts available to all.

• ACMI - Supporting people who are facing financial barriers in attending exhibitions at their museum.

• Support Act - Support Act is the music industry’s charity, delivering crisis relief services to musicians, managers, crew and music workers across all genres who are unable to work due to ill health, injury, a mental health problem or some other crisis.

Community

• Roomers Magazine - Almost all contributors to ROOMERS are residents or former residents of rooming houses, private hotels, public housing or special accommodation in Port Phillip.

• Footscray Community Arts Centre - An arts precinct dedicated to sharing stories and recognising that all communities are valued as makers of culture. 

• Arts Projects - A creative social enterprise that supports artists with intellectual disabilities, promotes their work and advocates for their inclusion in contemporary art practice.

• Australian National Veterans Arts Museum - A national cultural institution, Public Benevolent Institution (PBI) and veteran-led charity, enhancing and strengthening the wellbeing of the veteran community through facilitated arts engagement programs, projects and collaborations. 

Fashion

• The Social Studio - Part educator, part retailer, part production house and all about people. The not-for-profit social enterprise uses fashion and creativity as a cultural connector to create work and learning opportunities for Melbourne’s refugee and new migrant communities.

• Second Stitch is a social enterprise that empowers women from diverse backgrounds economically and  socially through textiles.

• Melbourne Fashion Hub is more than just a fashion business pre-accelerator; it’s a social enterprise fueled by passion and purpose. Their mission is to empower individuals and positively impact the fashion community.

• Fashlab is a community/network established in Melbourne to share knowledge, advice, news and mentorship across Victoria’s small scale fashion and related creative industries.

• Thread Together – a global first – addresses the uncomfortable truth around Fashion Excess by diverting brand-new unsold clothes destined for landfill, and providing them to the most disadvantaged across the country, offering choice to restore dignity.