GoodWolf Partners

At the Jacka Foundation for Natural Therapies, we are always striving to better serve our community and make a meaningful impact. Recently, our board members participated in a two-day training with Simon Lewis from GoodWolf Partners, gaining insights into strategic alignment and the importance of building trust-based partnerships. This training has empowered us to further strengthen our focus on delivering effective support for the natural therapy community. We’re excited to apply these learnings and continue creating opportunities for growth, collaboration, and lasting impact. 🌱 Photo 1: Simon from GoodWolf Partners conducting a training session for Jacka Foundation board members Photo 2: Dr Dr Pauline McCabe, Terri Albert. M. Mkt, Dr Liza Oates, Poh Poh Chin, CFA, Simon Lewis, Dr Lauren Burns PhD OAM OLY, Dr Sue Evans, Ass Prof Greg Connolly

GoodWolf sends warm congratulations to all the school graduates around the country this term including Simon’s daughter graduating high school, and Hannah’s daughter graduating primary school. This year GoodWolf has worked with some outstanding organisations working to support students and teachers to take on the future. It’s not easy times in the education sector but it’s hard to think of a space more critical to support.  Hats off to the graduates! You’re off to great places, today is your day! Your mountain is waiting so … get on your way! (Dr Seuss)  Cool.org Futurity Investment Group The Southport School Independent Schools Victoria Simon Lewis Hannah Durack Nina Yousefpour Claire Hanratty

How wonderful it is to see a funder commit to supporting organisations over the long term in this way. Congratulations Tim Fairfax Family Foundation for taking this initiative. GoodWolf Partners is especially delighted to see our friends at Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra as one of the grantees. Hannah Durack Nina Yousefpour Simon Lewis Pamela Greet Angela Loh Neal Harvey

🎉 This morning, Hannah had the pleasure of attending the Wesley Research Institute’s open day, celebrating 30 years of innovation in health outcomes. The event featured fascinating lab tours, inspiring conversations with brilliant researchers, and, of course, a very big cake. 🎂🧪  One of the key takeaways? Research institutes worldwide operate as an interconnected ecosystem, amplifying progress through collaboration. This model offers a powerful lesson for philanthropic supporters of medical research: partnering and collaborating with peer funders can maximize impact and drive better outcomes.   Last year, GoodWolf shared thoughts on the evolving landscape of medical research funding—read the piece here: https://lnkd.in/gTVJGjJa Happy anniversary Wesley Research Institute! Here’s to more collaboration, innovation, and impact in the years ahead!   David Sloan Wesley Research Institute Simon Lewis Claire Hanratty Nina Yousefpour Hannah Durack

As many are aware, it's World Social Enterprise Day. And it's fitting this week to be celebrating Queenslander of the year, Geoffrey Smith, CEO of Australian Spatial Analytics (ASA), a social enterprise started with the team at White Box Enterprises. As a highly successful social enterprise, ASA has achieved incredible outcomes for neurodiversity. On top of celebrating this win for social enterprise in QLD & Australia, we're always quick to take an opportunity to draw attention with our networks to the capital required to build social enterprises like ASA. In our work, we see that too often social enterprises fall through the funding cracks - not necessarily considered suitable for traditional funding forms through philanthropy and government, while not always able to take on investment either. Both funding and investment are needed for social enterprises to build and grow, and we see that sometimes ‘having an innovative business model’ that solves social challenges can mean these organisations don’t fit traditional moulds. A social enterprise that applies for 25 grants and receives 1, or constantly loses out on work to traditional service models, or who has been running a business doing the job of 3 people on a volunteer basis with limited support options, understands this challenge all too well.   We’d like to see more successful social enterprises like ASA and the many others addressing the range of social and environmental issues. There is so much more potential to leverage the ability of social enterprises to drive impact through diverse (rather than singular) sources of income and capital. Nina Yousefpour Simon Lewis Claire Hanratty Hannah Durack

Skoll Foundation pushing the envelope again...they've distilled their learnings and insights from 25 years into a series of reflective articles on the role of philanthropy in helping to shape and transform a better society. There's something for everyone here, and interesting to see some resonance with certain initiatives across the Australian sector. The seven-article series, entitled “Social Innovation and the Journey to Transformation,” explores how philanthropy can better support social innovators to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. The series makes the case for doubling down on supporting system orchestrators, collaborative funding, government partnerships, mission-aligned investing, storytelling, and evaluation and learning. Jump in... https://lnkd.in/g5EXBVFz Claire Hanratty Nina Yousefpour Hannah Durack Simon Lewis

'Thumbs up' to the mutual Futurity Investment Group celebrations at the NGV Great Hall last Friday. Celebrating 50 years of helping first generation Australian families save for their kids education, Futurity Group has enabled over 570,000 students in AU and NZ receive over $3.8bn in benefits to fund their education since establishment. And celebrating, too, 30 years of the National Excellence in Teaching Awards too (NEiTA), the community-based award program set up by Futurity to profile innovation and excellence across the teaching profession in AU and NZ. Originally promoted by the Apple & Pear Growers Association who distributed a tray of fruit to each school to promote the initiative and help identify the 'pick of the teaching crop', the link and legacy of the apple logo has continued. Over 1,000 teachers have received $1.3m in professional development grants and prize-money. With the cost of education continuing to rise, and in many instances, precluding students from the education they need, and given the ongoing challenges faced by an overworked and under-appreciated teaching community, these celebrations and the purposes of these initiatives rang true! Looking forward to seeing what the Futurity team and its members achieve over the next 50 years... Craig Dunstan, Catherine O'Sullivan, Sam Sondhi, Sarah McAdie GAICD, Masoda Ghiasy Simon Lewis Nina Yousefpour Hannah Durack Claire Hanratty

Congratulations to GoodWolf Director Claire Hanratty who has been appointed Chair of Hello Sunday Morning (HSM). Claire has been supporting HSM for over 12 months through projects and Board roles and we know that as Chair, her depth of sector experience and way of working will help take the HSM Board and organisation (& changing people's relationship with alcohol) to new heights. Taking on governance roles is an important contribution that the GoodWolf team makes to the sector. We enable the team to invest in these positions and leverage the skills that they bring through their experiences and develop through our work. Social impact governance is a unique skills set and the right people in these roles is more critical than is often allowed for to support leaders and organisational success. Simon Lewis Nina Yousefpour Hannah Durack

Nimble, local action, at scale. Sound like a contradiction? It doesn't have to be! With the right parties and the right thinking there is a way. It was such a pleasure to share a day and a half with Primary Healthcare and philanthropy leaders last week discussing how to leverage their important role within a complex national and regional but also highly local system in order to innovate for greater impact. You can always recognise commitment by the energy in the room and this group had it is spades! So looking forward to their next steps on the journey. Keith Bryant Simon Lewis Nina Yousefpour Hannah Durack Alison Lahey Richard Nankervis Frankie Airey

60% of Australian’s give to charities in one way or another during our lifetime, but only 6% of us give to charities in our wills. The enormous wealth transfer coming down the pike creates significant incentive to reduce that gap. The Bequest Report, John McLeod’s latest report to the field says that Australian inheritances are estimated to total around $150 Billion in 2024, and $5.4 Trillion over the next 20 years. This represents a big opportunity for the Australian charity sector – indeed in the report, John says we’re facing a once in a generation opportunity to reshape our country.  Claire and Hannah attended a Philanthropy Australia event this afternoon where John presented some highlights from his report and spoke with Megan Kair, Director of Philanthropy at the Mater Foundation and Karen McComiskey (CFRE), Chief of Private Funding for World Vision about how to use the insights to support the sector. “Normalise talking about including a gift in your will” was the headlining message. John’s assessment is that bequest giving would substantially increase if it were just on people’s radar. Strategies for getting the conversation started will differ depending on the organisation but one point was clear: “it’s an excellent return on investment!” You'll find the report here: https://lnkd.in/g9VsubBU GoodWolf shared a Bequest Strategy Pathway, developed with Ross Anderson, FFIA in our September 2023 newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gJGiTh_n Megan Kair Karen McComiskey (CFRE) Kim Harland JBWere Philanthropy Australia Simon Lewis Nina Yousefpour Claire Hanratty Hannah Durack