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	Current Special Initiatives Be the Hero Love And Justice Women's Anthem Watermark Australia Past Initiatives

Past Initiatives

The Trust has been used to taking on some big projects, such as small business incubator, Business Matrix, over eight years, Purple Sage over four years and Ordinary Women Extraordinary Lives over three years. But the Watermark Australia Project was the biggest of the lot....we put in seven years of prolonged effort and intensity.

Mary Crooks Trust Annual Report 2007-200

Our Water Our Vote November 2010
The Victorian Women's Trust and the Alternative Technologies Association jointly initiated Victorian election action for a significant improvement of water efficiency in Victoria. Read more

Vida's Voices - Young Women Speak 2010
In 2010 we undertook, for the first time, a statewide public speaking competition for year 10 girls. Vida's Voices involved almost 100 girls including a Leadership Team from Preston Girls Secondary College who were intensively trained to run all aspects of the competition throughout 2010.
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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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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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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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