2026 EOFY Fundraising
How you can support the women building our climate future this end of financial year
When women come together and their authority, priorities and solutions are supported, communities become stronger, more resilient and better prepared for the challenges ahead. As the financial year draws to a close, Women's Climate Congress invites you to stand with the women building, supporting and leading climate action where it matters most, in our communities, our regions, our Parliament and our national conversations.
In 2026, we ask for your support so we can increase our impact in these key initiatives. See below for more about each of these projects and to make your tax deductible donation.
Together, these initiatives represent something bigger than individual projects. They are helping create a future where women in all diversity are not simply responding to climate change; they are shaping the agenda and the solutions
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Fund the women already leading in rural and regional areas
This year, Women's Climate Congress launched four pioneering Rural and Regional Climate Hub pilot projects in Portland, Wagga Wagga, Castlemaine and the Dungog (Hunter Valley). Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we have spent the past year building relationships, travelling to regional communities, hosting listening circles and laying the foundations for long-term local action. These hubs are not programs delivered to communities. They are communities leading themselves.
Local women are identifying the challenges facing their communities and designing practical solutions that strengthen resilience, reduce isolation and create positive change where climate impacts are already being felt.
Your donation will support each hub in turning ideas into action, delivering community-led initiatives designed by local women for local communities.
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Supporting parliamentary women's voices at the heart of Australia's climate future
Australia's 48th Parliament is one of the most gender-balanced in our history. Yet representation alone does not guarantee influence. Women's Climate Congress is working alongside women parliamentarians from across political parties to establish a world-first multiparty women's parliamentary forum focused on climate change and gender equality.
This initiative is creating new opportunities for women leaders to examine policy through a gender lens and ensure the voices, priorities and lived experiences of Australian women are reflected in national decision-making. Already, this work has led to dedicated Parliamentary Library research and ongoing engagement with women leaders across Federal and State Parliaments.
Your donation will help support research, policy development, roundtables and the continued growth of this groundbreaking initiative.
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Building relationships that can transform the future
Real change begins with relationships.
The First Nations Sisterhood Project brings together First Nations women and non-indigenous (settler) women to build trust, understanding, and connection through respectful dialogue and shared learning.
Guided by Indigenous leadership, cultural safety and Free, Prior and Informed Consent, this initiative creates space for women to explore how they can work together towards a more just, resilient and sustainable future. Already, project leaders, advisers and participants from across the country have begun co-designing what this national sisterhood network could become. This is not a project built for communities. It is being built with communities.
Your donation will help fund workshops, facilitation, cultural guidance and participation from women across Australia.
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Why focus on women’s engagement and leadership?
The presence of women in political decision-making translates into more ambitious climate goals and policies. Studies in Europe and the US have shown that women are significantly more likely to support environmental legislation, even after controlling for political ideology and nationality. Similarly, more women in public governance can help bring women’s experiences with the environment to the fore, as evidence shows that women in political power are more likely to uphold gender-sensitive issues. (OECD 2022).
As we saw at Women Deliver, women and gender diverse people from around the world are creating powerful networks to combat environmental degradation. To tackle climate-related inequalities and bring about a feminist just transition. In Australia the Women’s Climate Congress is a leading organisation building this movement across cities, rural and regional areas; with First Nations women whose sovereignty has never been ceded and who are at the very centre of caring for this land; with community leaders and activists who are getting on with making change in larger and smaller ways; with grandmothers, mothers, aunties, daughters across generations and from different cultural backgrounds; and with at the centre of institutional policy making in parliament, business and other settings.
In 2025-26 with your support, we made huge strides in building this movement. Please help us again this EOFY so that we can build on the incredible work we have done and show ‘Women Deliver’ in action.