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Support for those who help our ageing communities

We have found that people aged over 65 who suffer from mobility issues, sickness or disease, experience adverse ageing outcomes. These adverse outcomes may include a lack of independence, loneliness and isolation, and poor emotional and physical health.

The Eastern Star Foundation’s core focus is to help improve these outcomes for the aged. We provide grants of up to $100,000 to registered charities that operate in Queensland to support evidence-based programs and initiatives that help older people to:

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Remain independent
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Practice choice
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Participate in their community
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Have a support network
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Experience healthy ageing
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Remain Independent
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Practice Choice
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Participate in their community
Uico Fund Support Network
Have a support network
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Experience healthy ageing
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Eastern Star Foundation’s Theory of Change

The problem we are trying to address:

People aged over 65 who suffer from mobility issues, sickness or disease, experience adverse ageing outcomes. These adverse outcomes may include a lack of independence, loneliness and isolation, and poor emotional and physical health.

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If we:
  • Focus our resources and grant funding on helping to improve outcomes for our aged.

  • Build the right partnerships with charities whose focus is also on helping the aged.

  • Support our charity partners to measure their impact and better understand and manage the outcomes being created.

  • Share what we learn.

Through:

The support of evidence-based programs and initiatives that help older people to:

  • Remain independent

  • Practice choice

  • Participate in their community

  • Have a support network

  • Experience healthy ageing.

Then this will result in:

For the aged

  • Increased independence

  • Increased hope for the future

  • Increased community interactions

For charity partners

  • Greater clarity in how impact is created, managed and measured

  • Improved impact measurement to help improve practice ageing

And will eventually lead to:
  • Improved health and wellbeing

  • A stable support network in place

  • A more connected senior community

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We have one grant round each year

Our next grant round is open from 2 October to 1 December 2023.

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Does my organisation and project qualify for a grant from Eastern Star Foundation?

As an organisation operating in Queensland, to be considered for a grant from Eastern Star Foundation you must have:

  • Both Charity Tax Concession status and Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status under Item 1 of the table in Subdivision 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. You can easily check this on the ABN lookup website at www.abn.business.gov.au.

  • A specific program or initiative for which there is limited access to other funding or has a funding gap that needs to be filled for the initiative to proceed or for an essential service to continue.

  • The program or initiative must help older people to:

  • Remain independent

  • Practice choice

  • Participate in their community

  • Have a support network

  • Experience healthy ageing.

Eastern Star Foundation is unable to consider grants for the following:
  • Projects outside of Queensland.
  • Applications submitted on your behalf by an auspice organisation.
  • Retrospective or deficit funding.
  • General fundraising appeals. Recurrent administration costs.
  • Promotion of religion.
  • Political organisations.
  • Direct grants to individuals, including travel expenses, personal study or attendance at conferences.
  • Charities who directly support animals unless the animals provide assistance for older people with a disability within the aged community (e.g. registered assistance dogs).
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New wheels enhance lives at Gunther Village Gayndah

Residents of Gunther Village Gayndah have enjoyed more adventures and outings in their community since the arrival of their new HiAce minibus funded through a grant from the Eastern Star Foundation. Gunther Village Chairman, John Zahl said that the $98,000 grant received last year from the Foundation allowed them to purchase and fit out a […]
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Latest grant round helps our aged to live well

The Eastern Star Foundation has announced the outcome of its latest grant round with just over $302,000 in grant funding to empower organisations that help our aged to live well. The successful grant recipients for 2023 include World Wellness Group, Palliative Care QLD, Dementia Australia, and Australian War Widows Queensland. Eastern Star Foundation Chair, Elizabeth […]
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Foundation Update – April 2023

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Celebration marks grant helping aged to live well in Sunshine Coast Hinterland

Last week, Eastern Star Foundation Directors visited the Blackall Range Care Group’s social and recreational hub in Nambour to see the impact that their $100,000 grant had made on the elderly living in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. In 2020, the grant was awarded to the organisation by the Eastern Star Foundation to help them remodel […]
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Foundation Update – December 2022

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Eastern Star Foundation Annual Report 2022

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We are always open to receiving your feedback to help us improve our services. Should you wish to provide us with your feedback, or make a complaint about our service, then please email admin@communityfoundation.org.au, call us, or post us a letter.

A copy of our Complaint Handling Policy, Complaint Handling Procedure, and Whistleblower Policy can be accessed here.

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The Eastern Star (Australia) Foundation Ltd trading as Eastern Star Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that provides grants to charities to help improve outcomes for the aged. Our activities are underpinned by our values of dignity, independence and hope.

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