FRRR Vision

A charitable foundation based on a partnership between philanthropy, community, government and business can create innovative funding mechanisms and organisational structures which will support communities to respond positively to change and build social and economic wealth in rural and regional Australia.

"A foundation can both solve individual problems and work on systems development. It is independent and only answerable to the common good and to its own objectives. It needs people who have learned to find answers in the course of their lives. The creative people in a foundation must be committed and must also be sensitive to the self-perception of human beings. If these conditions are fulfilled, operating foundations can indeed 'move mountains'… The innovation potential that a country can tap with the help of a lively community of foundations is illustrated by a comparison with the effect that the non-profit foundations have in the USA. Smaller as well as larger foundations and especially the so-called 'think tanks' play an indispensable role in shaping society, especially in terms of badly needs systemic development.'

Reinhard Mohn, The Work of Operating Foundations, Bertelsmann Foundation 1997, p30-31