Strategic Partnerships
We partner with charities and organisations who operate in Queensland and Papua New Guinea that tackle social issues to achieve life-changing outcomes for people in need. Our focus is on ensuring Queensland’s most at-risk young people have the outcomes they need to thrive in adult life.
If you have a program or initiative that aligns with our Theory of Change then please tell us about that alignment and your need by emailing us at info@handheartpocket.org.au Please scroll down to read our Theory of Change.
Designed to Achieve
Life-Changing Outcomes
We are interested in supporting multi-year philanthropic partnerships and impact investments for initiatives that are strongly supported by evidence and whose impact can be measured, to deliver clear outcomes for at-risk young people.
Our partnering approach embraces program delivery, capability building, impact measurement, influencing systemic change and scaling impact. Watch our whiteboard video.
Hand Heart Pocket
Theory of Change
The Problem We Are Trying to Address
If we:
Through:
a safe home
Then this will result in:
And eventually will lead to:
Improved Outcomes for Youth at Risk in QLD Over Time
Want to find out more?
Read our “Background Report and Hand Heart Pocket’s Theory of Change: Improving Outcomes for Youth at Risk in Queensland”
Capability-building support
We also offer capability-building support as we understand that organisations may need help at different stages and for different reasons. This may mean providing assistance to an organisation to get them to the next stage or to position their organisation for future success. Examples of capability-building grants:
Funding to establish a Theory of Change which clearly identifies the problem you are trying to help address, how your organisation plans to help address that problem, and what outcomes it hopes to achieve.
Funding to collate evidence to support your Theory of Change – this can include both quantitative and qualitative evidence that your organisation has collected through its current programs and/or evidence collected by other organisations from similar programs and initiatives.
Funding to establish a proposed framework to measure the outcomes and impact of your program or initiative.
Fund a specialist to develop an organisation’s long-term strategy, business plan and governance program to provide a clear path forward into the future.
Funding to procure additional resources to facilitate growth and expansion within the organisation.
You may seek funding to run an evidenced-based start-up or pilot program.
Does my program or initiative qualify?
We support registered charitable organisations or businesses that operate in either Queensland or Papua New Guinea to tackle social problems. You must be able to demonstrate that your program or initiative is able to assist Hand Heart Pocket to make progress against its ‘Theory of Change’ to improve outcomes for youth at risk or is in support of Hand Heart Pocket’s current strategy.
Organisation’s that operate in Papua New Guinea must:
- Have charitable entity status, be registered with the Investment Promotion Authority;
- Provide a copy of the organisation’s formal constitution;
- The constitution must include charitable clauses dealing with funds solely for social purpose, member distributions and a winding-up clause.
Programs or initiatives we are unable to consider
Hand Heart Pocket is unable to consider the following programs or initiatives:
- Projects outside of Queensland or Papua New Guinea;
- Applications submitted on your behalf by an auspice organisation;
- Retrospective or deficit funding;
- Capital grants;
- General fundraising appeals;
- Religious activity;
- Party political activity;
- Direct grants to individuals, including travel expenses, personal study or attendance at conferences;
- Charities directly supporting animals, unless the animals provide assistance for people with a disability (e.g. registered assistance dogs).
Contact us
We are always happy to hear about community programs.
If you feel your initiative aligns with our Theory of Change and you meet the above criteria then you can contact us at any time to tell us about this alignment and your need, by emailing us at info@handheartpocket.org.au
You must be able to demonstrate that your program or initiative is able to assist Hand Heart Pocket to make progress against its Theory of Change to improve outcomes for youth at risk or is in support of Hand Heart Pocket’s current strategy. Read more about our strategy in our Annual Report.
We do not have grant rounds or an application form. Once we receive your email we will review this and be in touch.
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