Our Story

The Chances for Children Foundation was established in 2000 as a partnership between Mallee Family Care and the then three water authorities. Now in its twenty-fourth year, Chances for Children is a program of Mallee Family Care that provides scholarship funding and ongoing support to young people located in North West Victoria and South West New South Wales who without this support, may have struggled to remain engaged at Secondary School, lacked the freedom to realise their talents in sport or the arts or would have not had the opportunity to pursue a tertiary education pathway.

Our philosophy

The absence of money or support will not stand in the way of a young person achieving their potential.

 

Our purpose

Financial circumstances and rural isolation can severely impact a person’s capacity to achieve their goals. Chances for Children provides funding support to young people of the Mallee in northwest Victoria and southwest New South Wales, assisting them to overcome the barriers and to pursue their academic, sporting and cultural interests and talents.

Our role
The role we play in helping to achieve that vision is to realise their potential by providing scholarships, opportunity programs and ongoing support. We partner with talented and motivated young people from northwest Victoria and southwest New South Wales to enable them to thrive.

The Chances for Children Foundation strategy is to achieve its vision by:

• Working closely with schools to identify young people with talent and motivation who are facing financial disadvantage

•  Supporting those young people (with money and opportunities) to:
  • Confidently name and pursue their education and career goals.
  • Return to northwest Victoria and southwest New South Wales to share their knowledge, skills and networks.

• Building ongoing and meaningful relationships with donors (large and small) to fund this activity.