The Foundation applies some common principles to underlie our grant giving. When considering our support for a project, we look for:

• an emphasis on the "innovate - evaluate - disseminate" process. We seek to fund projects which take a new approach to problems, support the evaluation of their trial, and if successful, their replication in other locations.
  
  
• a focus on prevention. In seeking to maximize the value of our grants, we try to address the causes of problems, rather than treat the symptoms. Supporting social research is fundamental to this approach.
  
  
• potential for social change. We want our grants to provide the opportunity for people from culturally diverse backgrounds to be empowered to participate more fully in society.
  
  
• long-term sustainability. We try to fund programs that will continue to have an impact well beyond the period of our support. Will the grant be effective in bringing about structural change that will be significant (within its context) in ten years time?
  
  
• partnerships. We encourage applications from organisations that are working with others in their field. Our grants have greater impact when combined with support from other sources. These might include other trusts and foundations, government, business, and volunteers. We are very happy to be one of a number of supporters of a program.
  
  

Applications for funding support for programs (projects) should have regard to the Foundation's Funding Exclusions.