10% FOR NOT FOR PROFITS
Every year, Thor’s Hammer donates volunteer time, materials and cash donations totalling 10% of our profits to Australian charities and community based groups who are working to create better long term outcomes for our communities and environment.
To help decide on organisations to donate to, we used information available through The Life You Can Save, an organisation inspired by the work of Peter Singer, which evaluates the effectiveness of charities and not for profits in order to maximise the impact of donations.
These are some of the not for profits* we have been donating to since FY 2020:
*not all these groups are recommended by The Life You Can Save
Beyond Zero Emissions
Beyond Zero Emissions is an internationally recognised think tank that shows through independent research and innovative solutions how Australia can prosper in a zero-emissions economy.
They publish research on technological solutions that unlock huge economic potential for industries, regions and communities.
Their expert research is used to showcase and facilitate lighthouse projects, which spurs policymakers to scale and replicate successful models.
Amongst other projects, Beyond Zero Emissions' analysis and research is helping drive the development of renewable energy precincts in the Hunter, NSW and Gladstone, QLD.
The Climate Factory
Plant a forest and watch it grow.
The Climate Factory is a local social enterprise established in 2019 by founder, Edwina Robinson, after Australia experienced it’s hottest summer on record. Robinson is a landscape architect who had worked in wetland restoration in Canberra and knows the landscape offers many solutions to cooling the climate.
Climate Factory’s vision is to cool the landscape by doing three things:
Rehydrating our landscape
Building our soils with organic material, and
Planting densely with climate-ready plants
Farmers for Climate Action
Farmers for Climate Action is an inclusive movement of farmers and rural Australians leading the way on climate solutions.
Their four key strategic pillars are:
Farmer education and training
Political and industrial advocacy
Building farmer networks
Partnerships across industry and research
Farmers for Climate Action believe that if they organise farmers, graziers and agriculturalists, to lead climate solutions on-farm and advocate together, they can influence the rural sector and the government to implement climate policies that reduce pollution and benefit rural communities.
Fire Sticks
Cultural burning: healthy communities, healthy landscapes.
Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation is an Indigenous led network and aims to re-invigorate the use of cultural burning by facilitating cultural learning pathways to fire and land management.
Firesticks is facilitating training, implementing on-ground works and conducting scientific monitoring to establish a greater understanding of the ecological impact of cultural burning practices. Their ultimate aim is to empower Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities to work together towards healthy, functional and resilient landscapes.
Victor Steffensen’s new book “Fire Country” is available from their web site and is a very interesting read.
Greening Australia
Vision: Healthy, productive landscapes where people and nature thrive.
Greening Australia are an environmental enterprise that thinks big to tackle the challenges facing Australia’s unique and diverse landscapes in ways that work for communities, economies and nature.
They started conserving and restoring Australia’s landscapes in 1982 and continue to work to solve bold and complex environmental problems through conservation on a massive scale - with programs and projects covering millions of hectares of land and protecting hundreds of native species.