Currently the Telstra Foundation Community Development Fund supports the Indigenous Education Leadership Institute’s program. This program provides training and support for school leaders from schools with high Indigenous student numbers to create change that will lead to improved outcomes for Indigenous children.
We have previously supported the youth components of the and and have engaged RMIT’s Globalism Institute to conduct research on the health and wellbeing impact of Indigenous community festivals.
ABRACADABRA is one of our Social Innovation Grants that benefits Indigenous children and is being delivered through Charles Darwin University's School for Social and Policy Research. The ABRACADABRA software is interactive and educational, and designed to help struggling school students aged between five and eight years learn grounding literacy skills which are the cornerstone for their future learning opportunities.
Future funding opportunities
The Telstra Foundation has made a commitment that each year at least one third of its Community Development Fund grants will support Indigenous Community Development projects.
Priority will go to projects that improve the education outcomes and health of Indigenous children and young people, and projects which promote, protect, maintain or strengthen Indigenous culture.
See for funding guidelines and application details.