Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR)

About

The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR) is a not-for-profit organisation that harnesses the power of collective investment between government, business and philanthropy to improve the lives of those living in rural, regional and remote Australia. Our vision is for vibrant, sustainable and adaptive communities across rural, regional and remote Australia. We strongly believe that local people are best-placed to know what is going to work best in their communities, so we focus on helping communities address local opportunities and challenges, to deal with factors of distance and service access and to maintain and build community cohesion and strength. Since being established in 2000, FRRR has distributed more than $75M to around 8,000 projects across rural, regional and remote Australian communities. Those funds have focused on enabling communities to respond to the needs of their: People, by developing healthy, connected, skilled communities and individuals; Place, by building vibrant cultures, healthy environments, sustainable social and physical infrastructure; and Prosperity, by supporting sustainable, viable and adaptive local economies that are inclusive and provide opportunities for economic participation and financial wellbeing. FRRR is the only national organisation offering small, discretionary funds to small regional communities across Australia. We are both a grant maker and a grant seeker - distributing funds through a number of programs for the benefit of rural and regional Australia. We play a critical role as a connector, working across the philanthropic sector as a conduit for philanthropy to rural communities. We work hard to identify the ways that philanthropy can best support communities – cutting out the noise and deepening the focus to understand what will really make a difference.