Example Program Logic

Vision 

A vibrant, healthy, fair, and regenerative Australia. 

Purpose

To protect and enhance Australia’s unique natural environment and to create greater social equity and belonging in the Australian community.

Values

1. Nature. The Environment. (Country)          2. Social equity and belonging. Humanitarianism. (Community)         3. Indigenous aspirations and cultures. (Culture)

Goals

Objectives

Inputs

Activities

Outputs

Outcomes

Indicators

Impact

1. To protect and conserve lands, waters, and skies. 

2. To restore and regenerate lands, waters, and skies 

3. To advocate for degrowth and post-growth philosophies and economies. 

4. To reduce human and community suffering.

5. To increase human and community flourishing. 

6. To respect and collaborate on First Nations aspirations and advance decolonisation.. 

1. To fund organisations that are working effectively to protect and conserve lands, waters, and skies. 

2. To fund organisations that are working effectively to restore and regenerate lands, waters, and skies.

3. To fund organisations advocating for degrowth and post-growth philosophies and economies. 

4. To fund organisations that are working effectively to reduce human suffering and increase human flourishing by working in systemic ways to address health, education, and other welfare and human rights systems. 

5. To fund First Nations-led organisations advancing Indigenous aspirations and decolonisation.

1. Natural Capital: Land owned by founders.  

2. Human Resources: Number of directors and staff.

3. Social and Political Capital: The network of relationships the founders and staff hold and maintain. The political influence the founders and staff have from the power they have and the attention they can direct.

4. Intellectual and Cultural Capital: The documented, held, or practised knowledge and customs of the founders, staff, and their collaborators.  Any documented and accessible data or information. Software ownership or licenses. 

5. Physical and Manufactured Capital: Buildings, cars, computers, hardware, physical assets.

6. Financial Capital: Multiple millions of dollars in annual revenue for donations. 

1. Meeting with organisations making positive change. 

2. Learning about and researching projects making positive change. 

3. Making decisions about donating/investing in projects making positive change. 

4. Governing and administering the Foundation. 

5. Developing the Foundation’s Strategy.

6. Advocating for change in the philanthropic community to encourage more funding to go to goals similar to ours in ways that are in line with our transformational and relational approach. Thus multiplying the outcomes and impact we can have and allowing us to better achieve our goals and objectives. 

1. 50+ meetings with relevant people and organisations. 

2. 200+ hours of research on relevant projects.. 

3. 10+ decisions about discrete grants/ donations/ investments in organisations making positive change. Resulting in multiple millions in donations annually. 

4. 10+ financial transactions and ongoing yearly financial accounting.

5. Development, and yearly review, of a business & impact strategy and report. 

6. Attending conferences and delivering talks at events (8 per year). 

7. Developing a transformational philanthropic learning program. 

8. Developing strategic communications including a website and social media presence.  

1. Relationships with people in organisations making positive change. 

2. Data, information, and knowledge on projects making positive change. 

3. A wide range of environmental, social, and cultural outcomes based on how the partner organisations use the donated funds. These outcomes  include:

- greater protection and conservation of the lands, waters, and skies. Including greater realisation of earth rights. 

- More lands, waters, and skies being restored and regenerated. 

- More mainstream discussion of degrowth and the associated policies and practices. 

- A reduction in human suffering associated with poverty, dislocation, dispossession, colonisation, and capitalism. 

- An increase in human and community flourishing associated with better health, education, and other welfare outcomes (e.g. better health and education services). Including greater realisation of human rights.  

- An increase in achievement of First Nations aspirations and a strengthening of decolonisation.  

4. A financially well-managed fund with high administrative and accounting standards. 

5. A dynamic and constantly relevant strategy driving the Foundation’s activities.

6. Changes in the philanthropic community with more people giving/investing in a transformational and relational way. 

1.The quality of the relationships between Foundation Directors/Staff and people working with organisations receiving donations. 

2. The quantity and quality of the data, information, and knowledge on projects making a positive change. 

3. The number of acres of land/water/sky under protection and conservation. 

4. The number of acres of land/water/sky under restoration or regeneration. And the effectiveness of the regeneration efforts.

- The tonnes of carbon sequestered by conservation and regeneration practices. (Land/Sky)

- The litres of water cleaned or designated or created for ecological use. (Water)

5.The number of people supported and the degree to which their wellbeing is improved by activities aimed to reduce suffering and increase flourishing. 

6.The number of First Nations people, organisations, and communities supported and the amount contributed to the realisation of their aspirations and wellbeing.

1. Thriving Country. A nation where the lands, waters, and skies have been healed and are regenerated and flourishing. 

2. Thriving Community. A nation where unnecessary suffering has ended and people and communities live lives of meaning and wellbeing. People can reach their potential and flourish. 

3. Thriving Culture. A nation where everyone respects the First Peoples and the First Cultures of the land. A nation creating a new shared culture that centres Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, and being. 

4. Thriving Continent. A nation building a regenerative society and economy based on degrowth and decolonisation.