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About StreetSmart

StreetSmart takes action against homelessness. We raise funds and awareness for small, 'hard to reach' grassroots services and projects. These projects provide critical services and emergency aid as well as promoting social inclusion, empowerment and sustainable change for people who are homeless or at risk. 100% of donations raise from the public are distributed in the form of grants. To date we have raised and distributed over $2,461,000 to 646 grassroots projects.

To support and fund grassroots projects now, donate online here
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StreetSmart news

Our popular living skills resource is now on sale for 2014

The success of our 2013 CafeSmart event was down to our partnership with Coffee Roasters

Thanks to everyone who got involved in a huge day of fundraising on June 7th

Restaurant & Cafe signup

LiveSmart 2014 diary

... we love the StreetSmart initiative, it brings unique funding to smaller organsiations who really struggle to make ends meet.
Deb Tsorbaris - CEO
Council to Homeless Persons

Thanks to everyone concerned with StreetSmart. Many young people arrive at Tandana homeless, often with just the clothes they are wearing. The money so generously donated will be used to provide a 'starter pack' containing linen, personal needs, basic food items and cleaning products.


Tandana Place Team
Tandana Place - VIC

StreetSmart's generosity enables Urban Seed to bring its dreams of creative education on the difficult issue of homelessness to reality. For this our organisation and those we support are extremely grateful.


Kyla-Jane Hunt
Urban Seed - Melbourne
That's fantastic news! Thank you to everyone at Streetsmart!! Well done on a successful fundraising strategy during 2009.  It’s really exciting to see the support for StreetSmart increasing, and I'm sure it's due to such great work on your behalf and the rest of the team at StreetSmart.
Jill McKay - Manager
Othila's Young Women's Housing and Support Service - QLD

…we are tremendously grateful for the grants received from Streetsmart which gives homeless people opportunities and options that they would not otherwise enjoy. Thanks to those who support and give generously to this initiative.


Tony McCosker - CEO
St. Mary's House of Welcome

Thank you StreetSmart for your work and dedication. I am excited to see the way StreetSmart is starting to impact on the Victorian community.


Martin Cowling
One Umbrella

On behalf of the Street Socceroos project, I'd like to thank the Street Smart team for your generous donation and identifying the merit in this project and supporting its goals.


Martin Hughes - Editor
the Big Issue

Many thanks to StreetSmart for supporting Urban Seed's advocacy work. We are committed to ensuring the urgent need for systemic change is heard in the community. With this support from StreetSmart we can assist people who experience homelessness have a voice and work towards a more just society.


Sue Hogan
Urban Seed

What excitement! Thanks so much we are very grateful for all you do to make these grants available and the community awareness it generates,thanks again.


Anne Jordan
Cana Communities

WOW, what a great result for the fundraising nationally. Congratulations to you and the team and the local restaurants.   I would like to sincerely like to thank Streetsmart for your continued support of Homeless youth in Brisbane.


Richard Langford
Brisbane Youth Service

... thank you for this generous contribution to our community to start ‘Music Jam’. This program is a true reflection of the needs of service users and will add great depth and variety to the service we provide. Without StreetSmart, this program would simply not be possible so we would like to extend a huge thank you to StreetSmart for investing in us!


Omar Abidin - Coordinator
Norman Andrews House

Many thanks for the grant for our Orana Upskilling Program. We're all very excited with this project as it'll give the homeless young people we work with, the opportunity to give them real skills to be able to turn their lives around. It'll show these young people that people really care and that this has been made possible through StreeSmart.


Ben de Jong
Orana Youth Shelter - QLD

Thanks to the support of StreetSmart we've been able to develop an Independent Living Skills Program to arm young people with the skills to maintain independent living. The support from StreetSmart is unique and has been pivitol in enabling us to develop our service to encompass homeless young people's needs in a holistic and lasting way.


Joanna Mason - Youth Worker
Iramoo Youth Refuge

Wow thank you so much, we are so excited and really appreciative of this.


Nikki Gibson - Manager
OzHarvest - Newcastle

Thanks so much for our grant for the River Nile Sailing Home project. We look forward to starting the program asap, the students are looking forward to the excursions we have organized! On behalf of Footscray Community Legal Centre I’d like to thank StreetSmart so much for the opportunity to run the Sailing Home program.


Jane Berry
Footscray Community Legal Centre

Our Drama Group Project is going to help so many of the young one’s in the Glebe and Inner City area.  We will be working on Living Skills and the ramifications of domestic violence over the generations and how to break the cycle.  Thanks so much for helping Elsie Women’s Refuge make a difference in young lives


Deborah Locke
Elsie Women's Refuge

The grant will allow us to offer a new self care focussed program to local disadvantaged community members that will support better mental and physical health, help increase social networks and improve access to local community services. Thanks Street Smart, this help is invaluable!


Joe Hurley - Co-ordinator
West End Community House

The team of staff and volunteers at Fitted for Work were absolutely thrilled to receive a StreetSmart grant again this year for our Women Exiting Prison Program. This is a very practical program which helps women pre and post release to build the confidence and skills to transition into sustainable employment. As well as financial security, work brings an important sense of hope, dignity and social connectedness. This grant will directly transform the lives of many marginalised woman and their families. Thank you so much for believing in us and supporting our work.


The Team
Fitted for Work


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