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The Fay Fuller Foundation is a private philanthropic organisation in South Australia. The focus of our giving is to drive change around impactful, purposeful, and people-centred philanthropic funding. Rather than funding and forgetting we operate under a community centred, trust-based model and value building deep relationships with our partners. We believe that communities are the experts in their own lives and centre community in everything we do.

Our vision is a South Australia where communities work together to build inclusive and equitable healthy futures.

Our purpose is to resource community determined responses to complex challenges. By this we mean:

Resourcing encompasses support beyond funding.

Community determined centres people with lived experience and community members as the experts in their own lives.

Responses speaks to broader actions than project implementation like contributing to knowledge or building an evidence base for a new response.

Complex challenges recognises the social and cultural determinants that impact mental health and wellbeing and the interconnected systems these operate within.

We are a principles based Foundation, meaning our principles underpin everything we do and guide our work. Our principles are active and embedded in the structure of our organisation. We use our principles to measure and evaluate our impact, to inform when, where and how we grant and most importantly, to influence how we show up as partners.

Timeline
We're still piecing together a full history of Fay's giving, but you can explore some of our more recent work here.
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Meet Fay, Our Founder

Born in 1926 to Charles and Lillian Fuller of Mitcham, South Australia, Margaret Fay Fuller (quickly dubbed Fay) was vibrant, inquisitive, and a much-loved little sister to Dorothy Jean Fuller.
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We acknowledge the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and the traditional custodians and owners of the lands on which we work and live across Australia. We pay our respects to Elders of the past, present and into the future. We are committed to collaboration that furthers self-determination, as we go forward, we will continue to listen, learn, and be allies for a healing future.