Our Strategy

The Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) was formed in 2000, at the instigation of the Sidney Myer Fund and the Federal Government. Our founders believed that philanthropy could help local leaders respond to economic and social decline being experienced in many remote, rural and regional areas.

Twenty years on, we are still the only national foundation specifically focused on ensuring social and economic strength in remote, rural and regional Australia.

We do this by connecting goodwill, with good purpose and aligning government, philanthropic and local community purpose and investment.

We focus this investment at the intersection of People, Place, and Disaster Resilience & Climate Solutions. This is where we believe the core conditions for community resilience lie, and where resourcing, investment, and policy-settings can be best-focused.

We do this because we believe that the ability to be a healthy, prosperous and equitable nation depends on the strength of our social networks, our ability to deliver services across large distances in hard to reach places, and our ability to respond to threats at all levels of society and governments. We also recognise and work with the natural interdependencies of systems rather than create solutions that are siloed or which have unintended consequences on other parts of the system.