Changemakers Australia
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Changemakers Australia (CMA) is a newly incorporated organisation which grew from the belief within the philanthropic sector that there is a need for an organisation which can support and encourage the growth of social change philanthropy in Australia, along the lines of Changemakers in the United States. It emerges from the previous work of the five organisations involved with the less formalised Horizons, the funders' network for social change.
Changemakers Australia's stated mission is to encourage, educate and resource philanthropic organisations and individuals to work for significant and long-term change through effective partnership with groups experiencing disadvantage and discrimination. The major assumption underlying the approach advocated by CMA is that to be really effective, philanthropy should direct its support to activity designed to address the underlying causes of social ills, such as poverty, inequality, abuse of human rights and environmental degradation.