Stories

100 stories of giving

Every woman’s experience of giving is different so what could be better than sitting down for a chat with women from all over Australia to hear their story? These incredible women open their hearts and share their personal experiences with giving and hopes for the future with us. We ask the same four questions each time. Each woman’s answers are surprising, inspiring and uniquely hers.

Georgia Mathews

The impact of a collective contribution is greater than the sum of its parts and there are so many benefits to giving as a member of a giving circle – they’re engaging, they’re enjoyable because you are giving with other people, and you also learn.

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Cindy Carpenter

I’ve learned that giving is receiving. This is absolutely, absolutely true, particularly if you give where there's an intuitive and heartfelt connection for you to the cause, something that really speaks to your heritage, the things you care most about.

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Lyn Beazley AO

Giving doesn’t always have to mean a large amount of money. If you have lots, give lots, but you can give a small amount and then leverage it. I call it the dollar on a string. You put it out there and you get a matching dollar and then you put it out again and get another matching dollar and you just keep building like that.

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Fiona McLeay

For me, giving is a discipline, a practice. I'm big on these kinds of virtues being things that you just do, in the same way we make sure we eat enough vegetables and get enough exercise.

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Natalie Egleton

The motivation behind giving in regional communities is connected to place. It’s connected to a collective desire to make it the best place possible and create the most opportunities for people.

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Caitriona Fay Managing Partner Community & Social Investment - Perpetual

Cat Fay

We hear a lot of big dollars bandied about in terms of what the intergenerational wealth transfer would look like. I think we should be talking about what we want our communities to look like off the back of that wealth transfer.

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Camilla Freeman-Topper

Passion, equality, a bleeding heart and an overwhelming desire to give back.

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Kerin Hayden

The role I play within my family is that I'm that person pushing the envelope, reminding them and finding opportunities where we can give and share the impact.

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Michelle Lin

I'd like to think that setting up a structured way of giving was inevitable at some point in my life.

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Tanya Hosch

It’s always been the same things: fairness, social justice, the idea of looking after supporting others, as part of being in a community, as part of a healthy society.

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Penny Mapp

I want my girls to know they can engage with the world and make a difference.

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Paula McLean

Empathy is an enabler, and you take away with you much, much more than you give.

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Collective impact

She Gives aims to shine a light on the power and collective contribution of women’s giving in Australia through inspiring profiles, stories, news and events. Join in our conversations around giving, and help us share and celebrate the incredible contributions of women as agents for positive social change.

Indigenous Giving Circle

I would like to see Australia understand the behaviour behind the way we currently give and transform it into something that allows us to care for each other in ways that we couldn't have imagined.

Kids in Philanthropy

Empowering the future changemakers of Australia

Groundswell Giving

Changing the game on climate change

Melbourne Women's Foundation

Supporting vulnerable women and families in Melbourne to thrive

She Gives acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.