About Community Foundation Snowy Valleys Region
We are an independent, incorporated Company Limited by Guarantee that operates for public benefit. Community Foundation Snowy Valleys Region was recently endorsed by the ATO as the trustee of a Community Charity with DGR1 tax status. The Community Charity will be used for a wide range of charitable activities to support the work of organisations across our region.
Community Foundation for Snowy Valleys Region is governed by a Board of volunteers with broad experience, community wisdom and street knowledge, representing towns, localities and populations groups across our region.
Our characteristics:
We recognise, respond and support all in our community and their needs.
We facilitate local community development.
We use storytelling to shape decisions.
Our interventions have impact.
We develop partnerships with others, including government funding opportunities, for community benefit.
Our community and street knowledge is an asset for stewardship.
We maintain relationships with like organisations.
Our mission is to support the aspirations and needs of our community by attracting funds with a focus on giving.
The CFSVR is governed by a Board of volunteers with broad experience, community wisdom and street knowledge, representing towns, localities and populations groups across our region. Our Board members aspire to our Mission and commit to the values and characteristics we hold dear.
JUSTICE - acting in a manner which takes into consideration the wellbeing of the individual and the common good of the community.
RESPECT - acting in a manner that shows genuine understanding and appreciation of the qualities, rights and beliefs of others.
INTEGRITY - acting in a manner that is truthful, open and consistent.
COMPASSION - acting in a manner that demonstrates empathy and support.
COMMMITTMENT - acting with dedication and perseverance to achieve our goals.
COLLABORATION - acting in a manner that values diversity, cooperation and openness.
Our values
Our History
In 1999 the, then, Community Foundation for Tumut Region (CFTR) began with discussions between the local community and the Pratt Foundation when Visy was in the planning stage of building the Pulp and Paper Mill in the Gilmore Valley near Tumut NSW.Tony Gray, the Pratt Foundation representative helped in providing advice to Tumut Shire Council with the experience, knowledge and support of the then General Manager Chris Adams and the community and introduced Sylvia Admans CEO of Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) and Heather O’Connor of the recently formed Mumbulla Community Foundation based in Bega. From all the discussions a steering committee was formed of local interested residents including Tumut Shire Council and the Blakeney Millar Foundation.
The Community Foundation for Tumut Region was formed and registered in 2004. Since then the Foundation has provided significant community support in many ways .Three years of Visy small community grants provided community groups across the Tumut shire with opportunities to grow and implement programs that were others wise very difficult to fund
During the subsequent years the CFTR has provided scholarships and small one off grants and supported community projects in non-financial ways with advice on charities and letters of support for many diverse projects.
CFTR was able to respond quickly to the floods of 2010 and 2012 and bushfires of 2019-20 by launching special appeals to provide significant financial support to individuals who had been directly impacted by these disasters. In so doing gift cards were donated to be used specifically at local business and service providers who were also effected by the disasters.
The bushfires provided CFTR the opportunity within our constitution to change the area we support from what was the original Tumut shire boundary to include the original Tumbarumba shire boundary reaching out to over 14,000 residents in some way, hence the Community Foundation Snowy Valleys was born.
Community Foundation Snowy Valleys Region is a member of Community Foundations Australia and associated affiliate regional groups of community foundations, Philanthropy Australia, Business Snowy Valleys and RE-Alliance.
Over the years Snowy Valleys Community Foundation has received much-appreciated support from many organisations, our community and individuals including:
