Business Matrix 1995 - 2005
Three Commonwealth grants and some of our own privately-raised funds enabled us to create and manage Business Matrix, the first  and only Australian business incubator primarily for women.
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Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives 1999 – 2001
We commissioned Mothers Art to create and help us tour to fourteen regional Victorian locations, Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives, a 2001 Centenary of Federation exhibition.
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The Purple Sage Project 1997 - 2000    
We initiated and led the Purple Sage Project in the late 1990s, a community dialogue process on issues of concern across the state made possible  the support of two wonderful, passionate and generous female donors.
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The Tarka Project
The Tarka Project grew out of our on-going work around women and water.
Thanks to private donor support, we were able to bring about a unique event in Melbourne on 27th February 2010 – Precious Music, Precious Water.
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Completing The Picture 1991 - 1992 
Women Artists and the Heidelberg Era

We committed $25 000 to underwriting the costs of an exhibition – Completing the Picture – that brought together for the first time in Australia’s cultural history, the impressionist paintings of the ‘lost women of the Heidelberg era.’
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Women's Enterprise Connection 1991 - 1992
We started the Women’s Enterprise Connection (WEC) as a way of supporting women’s business ideas and initiatives.
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The Guaranteed Loan Fund
One of the very first major undertakings of the Trust was the creation of the Guaranteed Loan Fund.
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