Partners
Major supporters
Coles
Coles has been the major supporter of the Back to School campaign in 2008 and 2009. Their commitment has enabled us to take the campaign to a national level and reach thousands of schools across Australia.
Westpac Foundation
The Westpac Foundation has made a significant investment in ruMAD? Their support has made an expansion of the program a reality for FYA, and has enabled the team to enhance the social enterprise component of the program.
The R.E. Ross Trust
The R.E. Ross Trust has, since 2007, provided significant support for our thought leadership and research projects that are focused on increasing the equity and quality of public education.
NAB
NAB is the lead partner in Schools First. Their investment in education is the largest in Australian corporate history and FYA will continue as a supporting partner in this program over the next three years.
Department of Education And Early Childhood Development (Victoria)
Funding from various divisions of the Department has supported our research agenda, from supporting disadvantaged communities to enhancing teacher practice.
Portland House Foundation
Portland House Foundation has provided funding to enable the provision of Opportunity Scholarships to talented young Australians from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (Federal)
Through the Australian Government’s Indigenous Australians Opportunity and Responsibility commitment, FYA and the Federal Department have worked in collaboration to implement the Indigenous Youth Leadership Program.
Key supporters and partners
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Australian Council for Educational Research
- Australian Policy Online
- Australian Youth Climate Coalition
- Bank of I.D.E.A.S.
- Bokhara Foundation
- Changemakers Australia
- Collier Charitable Fund
- Dare to Lead
- EastWeb
- Fitness First Schools Program
- Goldman Sachs JBWere Foundation
- Human Ventures
- Initiatives of Change
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
- Lord Mayor’s Charitable Fund
- Melbourne Community Foundation
- Norton Gledhill
- Outward Bound Australia
- Perpetual Trustees
- Porter Novelli
- Reach Foundation
- Schools’ Canteen Education Foundation of Australia
- Social Ventures Australia
- Speak Out Ltd
- SYN
- Tasmanian Centre for Global Learning
- Technology and Wellbeing Roundtable (The Telstra Foundation in collaboration with Inspire Foundation)
- The Big Issue
- The Centre for Postcompulsory Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Melbourne
- The Danks Trust
- The Esatate of the Late Ian Roach
- The George Alexander Foundation
- The Jack Brockhoff Foundation
- The Whitlam Institute, University of Western Sydney
- The Wyatt Benevolent Institution
- Urban Seed
- VicHealth
- YEAH (Youth Empowerment Against HIV/AIDS)




