The Strategic Partnership is a two-year grant to an organisation working to support preventative mental wellbeing at the systems change level within South Australia. The grant provides $100,000/ year of unrestricted funding to support and strengthen the organisation’s systems change and advocacy work. 

Our hope is that through our Strategic Partnership we will:

• Provide resources to support organisations to have additional capacity to invest in their systems change and advocacy efforts.

• Deepen our relationship with organisation to continue an exchange of shared learning, support and opportunities to contribute and influence for systems change.

The Strategic Partnership grant builds on the Foundation’s existing partnerships and relationships with organisations that are aligned in terms of intention, principles, and ways of working and where there is potential additional benefit to influence each others' practice.

The Foundation invites a new strategic partnership every two years. The opportunity is explored with all of our aligned existing partners and networks, and the selection decision is informed by our Theory of Change and priorities and momentum within the sector. If you haven’t engaged with the Foundation before but are interested in learning more about this grant and partnership, please reach out for a conversation.

The Lived Experience Leadership and Advocacy Network (LELAN) are the peak body for mental health lived experience in South Australia. Their purpose is to amplify the voice, influence and leadership of people with lived experience to drive change.

They do this vitally important work through linking people with lived experience to advocacy and representative opportunities and by bringing people with lived experience together to create an advocacy platform for collective systemic impact.

Through their own work they hold space, where lived experience is at the heart of their work, and support people to develop skills, gain knowledge and share their experiences.