Change the Story
We bring different people, perspectives and voices together and amplify positive narratives for change.
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- Philanthropy
Collectives Amplifying Impact
Like many philanthropic foundations, we face the challenge of how a relatively small family foundation—can make an outsized impact on the complex and intertwined issues that affect people and the places they live. We find the answer embedded in our DNA as an organisation, and the clue is in our name – Dusseldorp Forum.
- Storytelling for Change
Sharing Strong Stories
Through a series of Narrative Practice workshops, Dusseldorp Forum’s partners from Kempsey, Bourke, Moree and Mt Druitt shared stories about the ways their communities are made stronger by identifying the skills, beliefs, knowledges and values that assist them in facing their struggles.
Their words reveal the care, connection and resistance of generations of First Nations communities.
- Place Based Change
PLACE – new national infrastructure to support and enable place-based change
Dusseldorp Forum is proud to be one of the initial supporters of PLACE as part of a $38.6 million partnership with the Australian Government, the Minderoo Foundation, Paul Ramsay Foundation, Ian Potter Foundation and the Bryan Foundation.
- Climate Action, First Nations Voice, Housing
Wilya Janta – First Nations knowledge informing housing solutions
Dusseldorp Forum is supporting the Wilya Janta Housing Project that is enabling visionary First Nations housing solutions to come to life.
Combining innovation and sustainability, Wilya Janta is engaging community from the design process to the construction phase and beyond, in order to create homes that are viable for the climate and for meeting the needs of First Nations communities.
- Learning the Macleay, Maranguka, Place Based Change, Storytelling for Change
Sharing Strong Stories – The Narrative Practice Project
On the banks of the Darling River in Bourke, NSW, under a warm winter sun, community members from Mt Druitt, Bourke, Kempsey, and Moree came together for the second in a series of Narrative Practice workshops to learn and share practices that help them tell stories in ways that make them stronger.
- Uncategorized
Surfers for Climate’s Party Wave of Climate Action
Dusseldorp Forum is partnering with climate organisations that are working in smart ways to engage more Australians in climate solutions. We’ve formed a three-year partnership with Surfers for Climate, who are mobilising surfers and ocean lovers to play a powerful role in the climate movement.
- Climate Action
Supercharge Australia: Clean Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future
Dusseldorp Forum is partnering with Supercharge Australia to unlock the potential of lithium battery technology to drive environmental progress and economic growth.
- Place Based Change, Youth Justice
Rise of Young Leaders in Mt Druitt
Mounty Yarns shares the intricate details of Aboriginal young people in Mt Druitt’s experiences of injustice, but within these stories of hardship are sparks of resistance, skill, and knowledge. These flickers are being nurtured into flames of a new generation of youth leadership, rising in Mt Druitt.
- Philanthropy
Generational Transition at Dusseldorp Forum
After three and a half decades, Tjerk Dusseldorp is stepping down from the Dusseldorp Forum. His son, Tom Dusseldorp, is set to take on the role of Chair of the board.
- Place Based Change
ChangeFest on Latji Latji Country
ChangeFest is so much more than an event; it's a nationwide movement re-imagining and influencing how change happens through community-led collaboration in communities across Australia. At its heart lies the belief in the power of place-based change – the idea that communities know their needs best and can drive transformative action when power, decision-making and resources are shared.
- Education, Karrkad Kanjdji Trust
Educating Future Custodians with Karrkad Kanjdji Trust
Education underpins individual, family and community development with benefits to health, social mobility, employment, economic growth and equality. It is a basic human right that also has cascading positive impacts on mitigating climate change and nature loss. As a wealthy nation with compulsory education, every child in Australia should have access to quality, full time teaching.
- Philanthropy, Place Based Change
Targeting Entrenched Disadvantage Roundtable
Improved collaboration among government, philanthropy, and communities is crucial for creating lasting positive changes for children and families.
- Education, Our Place
Walking alongside – revisited
In 2023, with more than 5 years of experience and learnings from the Partnership and implementation in nine diverse communities, Our Place has developed Walking alongside – revisited as the next chapter in their Walking Alongside series.
- Storytelling for Change
Listening to Understand
The seeds of this story were planted in 2021 when we observed that communities were engaged in inspiring systems change work yet so few of their stories were being heard. We wanted to understand why and support them to tell their stories more effectively.
- Environment, Philanthropy
It’s Up to Us – Climate Funders Handbook
For ten years we’ve been partnering with communities with long-term plans to improve social, cultural, and economic outcomes for children and families. Over this time the impact of climate change has become a clear and present danger to the success of any gains towards equity and justice.
- First Nations Voice
Joint statement from philanthropic funders for Yes campaign
We are saddened by the result of the Referendum, and our hearts and gratitude go out to the inspiring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who led this campaign for many years, and to the First Nations people, families and communities who are deeply impacted by this result.
- Education, First Nations Voice, Governance, Karrkad Kanjdji Trust, Nawarddeken Academy
Garma Brilliance
Amongst a stringy-bark forest atop an escarpment overlooking the Gulf of Carpentaria, Gulkula is home to the annual Garma Festival. This Gumatj ceremonial Bunggul (dance) site in northeast Arnhem Land, hosts thousands of people from across the country to experience the excellence of Yolngu culture.
- First Nations Voice, Governance, Place Based Change
Healing the Heart of the Macleay
When Dunghutti woman Jo Kelly speaks about her work, it becomes evident that her decades of experience as a fierce advocate, compassionate leader and community connecter have profoundly shaped her approach today.
- Environment
Social Justice is Climate Justice
In May 2023 we embarked on a strategy that was explicit in its embrace of climate action. We had found, through decades of partnership with communities across Australia, that the wellbeing of people and place are inextricably bound, and that social justice is climate justice.
- First Nations Voice, Maranguka, Place Based Change
Collaboration Transforming Youth Engagement
To create and sustain positive change we need to investigate not just what isn’t working but what is and that’s why in March the Bourke community services came together to celebrate and explore what was at the heart of their school holiday success.
- Philanthropy
Thriving People and Places
After lots of learning, reflection, and refinement we are very pleased to share with you the vision, values, principles, and work that will take Dusseldorp Forum forward from 2023.
