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The following grants were awarded under the Foundation Small Grants program in 2008/09. For more information on Small Grants awarded in the past see: annual reports or contact the Grants and Awards Manager 9604 8100 or email
Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention & Legal Service
Sisters photo exhibition - $5,000
To mount a photographic exhibition of Aboriginal women who have attended the Sisters Day Out well-being workshops and Sisters Serenity Retreats conducted throughout Victoria.
Australian Council for Children and Youth Organisations
Safeguarding children seminar - legal issues for not-for-profit organisations - $4,500
To conduct a seminar and prepare materials for not-for-profit organisations regarding legal issues in relation to reporting allegations of child abuse.
Federation of Community Legal Centres (Vic) Inc
Updating CLE made easy - $4,159
To update CLE Made Easy, an online guide and resource for community development and legal education workers in the community legal sector.
Flat Out Inc
Centre for the human rights of imprisoned people - $5,000
To write a Decarceration Framework for community legal centres and other community organisations and to conduct research and prepare a comparative analysis report on possible models of funding and structures for the Centre for the Human Rights of Imprisoned People.
Human Rights Law Resource Centre
Human rights caselaw database - $4,500
The Human Rights Caselaw Database provides free, online, fully searchable access to domestic, comparative and international human rights case law. This Project will enable the Database to be fully maintained and up-dated monthly. It will also enable access to entries in an accessible format for people with disability.
Job Watch
Rural and regional communities’ employment law and education programme - $4,800
Employment law-based education program for rural and regional Victorians.
Law Institute of Victoria
2009 Opening of the legal year - $2,500
To part-fund a non-denominational event to mark the opening of the Legal Year in 2009, where members of the public are also encouraged to attend.
Lead On
You and your job - $4,875
To publish a card and website for youth detailing where to go for help regarding employment law issues.
Mental Health Legal Centre
Focus group test of the 7th edition of Patients’ Rights - A Self-Help Guide to the Victorian Mental Health Act - $2,340
To convene a focus group consisting of consumer of mental health services to review the 7th edition of the Patients’ Rights booklet and conduct a group discussion to collect information and evaluate the booklet prior to the publishing of the 8th edition.
Monash-Oakleigh Legal Service
Prison legal education and assistance project (PLEA) - $4,495
To provide monthly court readiness seminars and library assistance to inmates at the Metropolitan Remand Centre, compile a prisoner’s legal handbook for inmates and to provide bi-monthly court focused experiential learning seminars.
Monash University
Mabo litigation collection - $4,987
The Mabo litigation is acknowledged as one of the most significant cases relating to indigenous rights in Australia (Mabo v. Queensland - 1989 and 1992). This project will organise, index and copy 70 arch-lever files of litigation materials generated by the Mabo case for a research collection.
Monash University - Faculty of Law
All you need to know about Victoria’s new relationship register - $3,046
To research and publish a step-by-step guide to educate the legal community and the public about Victoria’s new relationship register. The booklet will provide information on how to register relationships and on substantive requirements for and consequences of registration.
Monash University - Faculty of Law
Relationship breakdown: all you need to know about relationship agreements, property and maintenance - $4,476
To research and publish an educational booklet for the legal community and the public on new Victorian law on relationship agreements. The booklet will provide legal information on the consequences of relationship breakdown for unmarried couples in terms of property and maintenance.
Project Respect
R v Wei Tang judgment - community legal education - $5,000
To explain the significance of R v Wei Tang to trafficked women, community organisations and the wider public.
RMIT University
Scoping study for attrition of lawyers in Victoria - $5,000
This project scopes the potential and design of a large scale attrition study of lawyers in private practice in Victoria. It will undertake cross sectional and longitudinal analyses by sex of Legal Services Board practicing certificate data (1998-2008) and identify the most appropriate methodology for a detailed attrition study.
South Sudan Equatorian Association
Sharing cultural difference conference - $1,800
To conduct a participatory conference to educate the community on ways of engaging positively in Australian society. Speakers will provide legal education, and financial and settlement information to the Sudanese community in areas of law that affect the community in their everyday lives.
University of Melbourne
Impact of variable rate mortgage early termination fees on low income homeowners - $4,150
Investigate and produce research report and booklet for vulnerable home owners with variable rate mortgages who have recently been ‘locked into’ mortgages with lenders. The project investigates the extent to which the law provides consumers with a remedy to challenge excessive termination fees and aims to suggest law reform avenues that may be necessary.
Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS)
Sponsored edition of Just Policy - $5,000
To produce the 50th edition of the VCOSS publication, Just Policy which will focus on governance in the not-for- profit sector
Victoria Legal Aid
Bushfire Legal Help - CLE factsheet project - $5,000
To assist with the development of fact sheets to provide information on the legal issues arising for victims of the bushfires.
Victoria Legal Aid
Victorian Legal Assistance Forum website creation and maintenance - $5,000
To develop a website for Victorian Legal Assistance Forum and acquire domain name. The Forum is designed to promote collaboration and co-ordination of legal services for socially and economically disadvantaged people in Victoria.
West Heidelberg Community Legal Service
Empowering and capacity building local community to broker better human rights outcomes - $4,990
To empower disadvantaged Victorians in the West Heidelberg area (and the workers most likely to come into contact with them) to be better able to advocate and negotiate improved human rights outcomes under the Victorian Human Rights and Responsibilities Charter 2005.
Youthlaw
New graffiti laws card project - $3,000
To produce a small card to inform young people about new graffiti law and available legal options.
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