Our youth. Our community. Our potential.
From this week, you’ll start seeing TARGET ZER0 billboards across Melbourne’s west, sharing a different story about young people and what keeps communities safe.
This campaign is about connection, care and shared responsibility. Because when we back young people to thrive, our whole community is stronger.
Learn more at targetzero.org.au
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🎉A huge congrats to the 2026 PRF Fellows announced today; five leaders driving systemic change to stop disadvantage in Australia through community-led innovation: Janine Dureau, Jeanette Pope, Levi-Joel Tamou, Monica McKenzie and Todd Fernando.
The five Fellows each receive up to $250K over 18 months to pursue bold, transformative ideas, and join a collaborative network of leaders building new possibilities for their communities and for the systems that shape people’s lives.
"The PRF Fellowship is about investing in the person as much as the project," says PRF Chief Impact Officer Carolyn Curtis. “By giving courageous thinkers the space, resources and trust they need to pursue ideas that can shift systems and create lasting change, we can uncover new pathways to a future where people and places have what they need to thrive."
Learn more at prf.au
Across Australia, women and families are navigating compounding pressures, from the rising cost of living to the ongoing impacts of family violence. Community organisations are working incredibly hard to meet that need and are already leading solutions that work.
We’re proud to be part of a new philanthropic coalition committing more than $32 million to back them in a more coordinated, sustained way. By working together, we know we have a much better chance of making a meaningful difference in the lives of women, families, and communities across Australia.
We hope this marks the beginning of a new way of working — and invite others to join us.
Read more at prf.au
Pictured (L-R) Prof Kristy Muir, Georgie Byron AM, John Hartman, Stella Avramopoulos, Leonie Bell, Fiona McLeay, the Governor-General, Her Excellency the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Stacey Thomas, Victoria McKenzie-McHarg, Annika Freyer, Tamika Sadler. Michael Barr and Kerry Gardner AM, not pictured. Image courtesy of Hynesite Photography.
GRANT OPPORTUNITY 👉 Expressions of Interest are open now until 2 March for the Dads on Track National Grant Round, supporting organisations and programs focused on addressing the behaviours of fathers and other male caregivers who have used or are at risk of using DFV. Valued up to $350K per annum for 5 years, the grants recognise that addressing violence within families is critical to improving the safety of victim survivors and achieving long-term family stability, especially for children and young people.
Individual organisations and collaborations of two or more organisations are eligible to apply.
Learn more and apply on our website at prf.au
On Groote Eylandt, in the heart of the Gulf of Carpentaria, the Anindilyakwa people are leading a quiet revolution in healing, rehabilitation and justice.
In 2019, the Anindilyakwa Land Council and the Northern Territory Government signed the Local Decision-Making Agreement Implementation Plan for Law, Justice and Rehabilitation, giving the Anindilyakwa people greater control over their justice system.
In the five years since, recorded crime on Groote Eylandt has almost halved.
Anindilyakwa Land Council Chair Cherelle Wurrawilya says the Community Justice Group and the Anindilyakwa Healing Centre are proving that local decision-making works.
“We now have a justice system that listens to our voices, values our culture, and supports our people,” she says. “We are seeing fewer people reoffend, more people engage with rehabilitation, and stronger relationships between our community and the justice system.”
Read the full story at prf.au
There’s a major transition to renewable clean energy underway in Australia and, for regional and remote communities across the country, this presents an opportunity for First Nations people to access reliable, affordable clean power, build community wealth and create participation and benefit-sharing opportunities on Country.
That is, says Original Power's Karrina Nolan, if the transition is managed thoughtfully.
Original Power works with First Nations community partners to overcome structural barriers preventing people from accessing affordable and reliable clean energy and to harness the opportunities of the renewable energy transition.
PRF provided a grant to Original Power to take advantage of this window of opportunity. This investment has been targeted at growing Original Power’s national reach through the First Nations Clean Energy Network and Clean Energy Communities Project to ensure that First Nations people, groups and communities are able to participate in and benefit from Australia’s clean energy transition and that more communities have the information and support they are needing.
“Original Power is connecting communities to resources so they can make their own decisions about what assets they need, including advocating for community-led development and energy ownership,” says PRF Chief First Nations Officer Michelle Steele.
Read the full story at prf.au
If you had the opportunity to build a better future for kids, families and communities, would you be able to imagine what it would look like?
The forces already shaping our society – climate change, extremism, machine intelligence – are likely to accelerate inequity and marginalisation. This leaves us a choice: prepare for this future or actively shape a different one.
In 2024 PRF provided five years’ seed funding to The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) to establish the National Futures Initiative, designed to build Australia’s capacity to imagine and create a more just and sustainable future.
“Through this initiative," says lead of the National Futures Initiative Claire Marshall, "we’re aiming to expand Australians’ sense of possibility, provide proof of what’s possible, and support and mobilise the people and networks to make it happen.”
Read the full story at prf.au
In the wake of devastating and widespread bushfires on the east coast of Australia in 2019/2020, Fire to Flourish was established as a collaborative community-led program to better support community recovery and longer-term resilience building.
Partnering with communities in four regions affected by disaster across NSW and Victoria, Fire to Flourish supports participatory grantmaking, capability building, and community governance tools and processes.
The team in Eurobodalla brought together community members to identify local priorities, engaged mentors to build local grant writing capacity, and used a deliberative process to award funding.
“It was important to meet people on their terms, and where they were at,” says Eurobodalla Community Lead Kizzy Nye.
“Fire to Flourish gave community the opportunity to make decisions about their own recovery,” she says.
From 2023 to 2025 the Eurobodalla team delivered five community funding rounds, disbursing $2.75 million to 101 local resilience projects across the Eurobodalla Shire, from South Durras to Wallaga Lake. Across all four of the Fire to Flourish communities, more than ten million dollars as been awarded to community projects through participatory grantmaking.
“Our program has shown that community being the decision-makers is not only possible,” continues Kizzy, “it has a transformative impact.”
Read the full story at prf.au
Join PRF Fellow Dr Kyle Turner, PRF Chief First Nations Officer Michelle Steele, and an expert panel for an exclusive conversation about the future impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on First Nations communities. The free webinar on Monday 23 February 2026 at 12.30-1.30pm AEDT will give you an opportunity to hear directly from Kyle about his research, ask questions, and understand what AI means for First Nations communities.
Register now: https://loom.ly/qcVLglA
In the NSW town of Bourke, almost 800km north-west of Sydney, the Maranguka Community Hub, governed by the Bourke Tribal Council, is changing the way services are delivered to community to make sure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids are growing up safe, smart and strong.
Four years ago, Maranguka established the Palimaa Data Platform to enable community-led, place-based, data-driven decision making, giving the Bourke community the authority to decide what data is collected, how it is used, who can access it, and how it reflects community stories.
Powered by the Seer Data platform, Palimaa centrally stores data from around a dozen custodians.
“Palimaa brings together fragmented health, education, justice and local service data into a centralised, community-controlled platform to tell clear, visual stories about Bourke’s progress,” says Sheena Olsen of the Maranguka Backbone Operations team.
Read the full story at prf.au
Since the inception of the @capeyorkleadersprogram 20 years ago, more than 600 First Nations secondary and tertiary students have been supported to go to partner schools in Queensland’s regional and urban cities. The Program boasts a student retention rate from Year 7 through to Year 12 graduation of 85% and a Year 12 completion rate of 95% – more than double the national average for remote Indigenous students and on par with Australia’s largest and best-performing scholarship programs.
Cape York Partnership Group CEO Fiona Jose describes how the program delivers lasting economic impact, with Year 12 graduation acting as the “powerhouse” driver for employment, better health, reduced rates of incarceration, and longer life.
“Every student who finishes school doesn’t just change their own future, they shift the possibilities for the generation that follows,” she says.
“The Cape York Leaders Program works because it sets a high bar and then walks with students all the way. Our program is led and staffed 100% by Indigenous people who mentor, coach, and support both students and parents. That cultural authority, lived experience, and accountability is the foundation of our success.”
Read the full story at prf.au
Congrats to the 17 collaborations across NT, QLD and WA, each awarded $600K over three years through PRF's Strengthening Family-Centred Collaborations grant round. The funding and other support provided to the collaborations will help grow their collective capacity to assist those affected by DFV with whole-of-family support and long-term stability.
PRF's Head of Families Jackie Ruddock says, “While no single service, sector or system can provide the full wraparound support that families need to navigate and recover from the pernicious effects of domestic and family violence, we can achieve a lot more by working together and strengthening our holistic approach."
The collaborations, which include a total of 58 organisations, are focused on working with First Nations families, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) families, children under 12, and pregnant women.
Read the media release at prf.au
