- Program Area: The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
- Amount: $135,000
- Project State: VIC
- Year Granted: 2013
- Grantee: Pigeons Projects
The 100 Story Building - A centre for young writers
This funding will support the establishment of a new centre for young writers in Melbourne's inner-west. The centre will be named The 100 Story Building and will be a place where students of all ages can come to develop a passion for writing and confidence in themselves as creative individuals.
- Program Area: The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
- Amount: $28,194
- Project State: VIC
- Year Granted: 2013
- Grantee: Kids' Own Publishing (Australia)
Cockatoo Voices
A childrens community publishing project which will target 60 disadvantaged children who live in the rural hills region of the Cardinia Shire. The project will run for 12 months and incorporates capacity building training, childrens community publishing workshops, the creation of individual and collective books and a travelling book road show, among other elements.
- Program Area: The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
- Amount: $450,000
- Project State: VIC
- Year Granted: 2011
- Grantee: Zoos Victoria
Growing Wild: Ground Zone
The Growing Wild educational precinct aims to foster early connections between children and wild places. Solely devoted to nurturing a love of nature in children aged three to eight and their families, Growing Wild will provide a space in which children can come face to face and have a tactile experience with animals in three zones: Ground, Trees and Water.
- Program Area: The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
- Amount: $18,000
- Project State: NSW
- Year Granted: 2010
- Grantee: Nambucca Valley Youth Services Centre
12words
12words - is a microfiction website and networking tool through which writers (mostly aged 15-25) can register on the website, and then write stories of twelve words or less.
- Program Area: The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
- Amount: $270,710
- Project State: VIC
- Year Granted: 2008
- Grantee: Children's Protection Society
The Doula Project - renamed Mentoring Mums Program
The Doula Project, weekly supportive home visits by trained volunteer 'doulas' (wise women) to young women and families at risk of having children taken into care.
Refer to Case Studies (Our Stories) for further information.
- Program Area: The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
- Amount: $47,350
- Project State: VIC
- Year Granted: 2008
- Grantee: Open Family Australia
Shooting goals for children - the establishment of a new junior Redskins basketball program
Uniforms, registration fees and first aid kits will be provided to children from a disadvantaged area to allow them to participate in the local basketball competition.
- Program Area: The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
- Amount: $50,000
- Project State: VIC
- Year Granted: 2007
- Grantee: Ardoch Youth Foundation
Education Support Project
Education Support Project - a holistic approach to educational support from kindergarten through to high school for disadvantaged children and their families.
- Program Area: The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
- Amount: $87,750
- Project State: VIC
- Year Granted: 2007
- Grantee: Brotherhood of St Laurence
Pathways to the Future
The project aims to work with asylum seeker families to identify their difficulties and problems, and to work with existing services in the community to help them meet the needs of these families.
- Program Area: The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
- Amount: $10,000
- Project State: NSW
- Year Granted: 2007
- Grantee: The Red Room Company
Poetry Education Program
A program to encourage greater involvement in poetry by teachers and students alike.
- Program Area: The Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
- Amount: $23,570
- Project State: VIC
- Year Granted: 2007
- Grantee: Tweddle Child & Family Health Service
Post Natal Depression and Beyond Mothers' Group
Provision of post natal depression groups with the support of the Austin Hospital.
