Historic first African religious declaration against modern slavery
Walk Free and its faith arm Global Freedom Network have brought together a coalition of faith leaders for the first signing in Africa of the Joint Declaration of Religious Leaders Against Modern Slavery
Freedom in your hand: New app fights modern slavery
Global Freedom Network releases world-first app for faith leaders to fight modern slavery
Molly’s Ted Talk
Minderoo Foundation has partnered with TED and UNICEF to showcase Thrive by Five’s global mission to raise awareness about the importance of brain development in the first five years.
Introducing 7-year-old Molly Wright, one of the world’s youngest ever TED speakers with her talk titled: How every child can thrive by five.
Australia’s early learning system needs reform.
Bright Tomorrows App
Giving parents and carers world-class information on early childhood development.
The Bright Tomorrows Parenting App, produced by CoLab, provides learning activities, ‘in-the-moment’ advice and practical tips to parents and carers with children from birth to age five.
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Plastic Waste Makers index
Our new report shows that just 20 companies produce over 50 per cent of all single-use plastic.
Backing Black Business
New Report exposes the barriers faced by Indigenous businesses and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entrepreneurs.
Transparency in plastics
New white paper shows a distinct lack of transparency through the entire plastics supply chain.
Efforts to change industry practice and collect more plastic waste suffer from a lack of data, information and intelligence.
Walk Free, Women and girls
Campaign launch
In collaboration with Leo Burnett Australia, Walk Free have created a series of powerful, emotive films that subvert popular YouTube formats to highlight the insidious nature of modern slavery – which is often hidden in plain sight.
New report launched
To coincide with the 2020 International Day of the Girl Child, we have released a report: Stacked Odds to examine why women and girls are more vulnerable to modern slavery throughout their lifecycle.
walkfree.org
Along with the new report and campaign launch, we have re-launched walkfree.org, the new home of our Walk Free initiative. Visit now to see their latest work.
Fire & Flood Resilience initiative mission launch
Watch the launch event
We launched the Fire and Flood Resilience initiative and unveiled of our first mission at 9am AEST, Tuesday 15th September.
ERADICATING MODERN SLAVERY IN THE COMMONWEALTH
One in every 150 people in the Commonwealth is subject to modern slavery.
Urgent action is needed to achieve Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7 and the eradication of modern slavery by 2030.
How well do you think the Commonwealth is doing at eradicating modern slavery in 2020?
Commonwealth countries must act urgently to meet modern slavery targets
Commonwealth countries have made little progress towards their commitment to eradicate modern slavery by 2030.
COVID-19
Minderoo Foundation has committed up to $320 million in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Initiatives
Through a collaborative, evidence-based approach we strive to solve major global challenges through our eight key initiatives.
Connected, collaborative and creative communities
Together let’s make cancer non-fatal
Reducing harm caused by fire and flood
Returning oceans to a flourishing state
Building a digital ecology that empowers people
Creating parity for indigenous Australians
Eliminate the negative impacts of plastic on people and the planet
Research and innovation that enables change
Ensuring every child has a bright future
We can end modern slavery in our generation
OUR FUNDING
Our philanthropy is funded and supported by Tattarang and its portfolio of businesses.
