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Kain Foundation Collaborating with the corporate and community sector to create opportunities for children and youth in need to help them fulfil their potential.

Kain Foundation is a public ancillary fund working alongside Australian corporate businesses with a key purpose to create opportunities for children and youth in need. The Foundation collaborates with a motivated network of Australian corporate and community partners that dedicate their time and resources to collectively address some of the major challenges that face children and youth in the areas of education and economic development. We continue to seek ambitious and like-minded Corporate Partners to work with us in supporting a range of community projects that offer mutually beneficial opportunities - enabling children and youth to fulfil their potential, and encouraging businesses and their employees to experience and participate in community projects. The Foundation challenges a new space in philanthropy - combining energy and resources to be more effective and ethical in giving - so we can accomplish more together than we can separately . We exist quite simply to enrich lives.

We spent the morning in the garden planing mango, papaya and moringa trees before handing out backpacks with stationary ...
13/10/2026

We spent the morning in the garden planing mango, papaya and moringa trees before handing out backpacks with stationary supplies to the students at Madebau Primary School. Thank you to Timor Indigenous Tours for your guidance and the beautiful photos! 🇹🇱🥭🌴

We were honoured to be welcomed as special guests at the Madebau primary school opening ceremony alongside Kris and Nand...
13/10/2026

We were honoured to be welcomed as special guests at the Madebau primary school opening ceremony alongside Kris and Nandy from Spend It Well. It was a beautiful celebration with singing, dancing and lots of love from the local community 🇹🇱🫶🏼

The Kain Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Vita Maiorano as a Director of the Foundation Board.Vita...
08/10/2026

The Kain Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Vita Maiorano as a Director of the Foundation Board.

Vita has more than 30 years' experience spanning community development, international development, social innovation and executive leadership, focused on creating practical, locally-led and evidence-informed initiatives that improve outcomes for women, children, families and communities.

Her work has taken her across Australia, the Pacific, Asia and Europe, with periods living and working in countries including Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea, where she has partnered with governments, communities, not-for-profit organisations and the private sector to design and deliver programs that address complex social and economic challenges.

Vita's appointment brings valuable expertise and perspective to the Kain Foundation Board as we embark on our third decade of operations, continuing to pursue our vision of a world where businesses are generous and children realise their potential.

The Kain Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Judy Hatswell as a Director of the Foundation Board.Judy...
06/10/2026

The Kain Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Judy Hatswell as a Director of the Foundation Board.

Judy has dedicated her career to the not-for-profit sector, partnering with state, national and international organisations to advance their purpose and create meaningful impact for the individuals, families and communities they support.

Judy is currently the General Manager of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English.

For more than 11 years, Judy served as Chief Executive Officer of Sight For All, an international blindness prevention organisation. In 2022 she was awarded a Royal Order of Monisaraphon – Knight Order by decree of the King of Cambodia for services to blindness prevention in the country.

Judy looks forward to supporting the Foundation's vision of helping create opportunities for young people and communities to thrive, particularly by applying her international experience to the Foundation’s projects in Uganda and Timor-Leste.

Judy’s appointment will further strengthen the Kain Foundation Board as we embark on our third decade of operations. Together, we are enriched.

The Adelaide Kain Lawyers team had a wonderful time delivering our PrepMe program workshops to a group of year 11 studen...
16/09/2026

The Adelaide Kain Lawyers team had a wonderful time delivering our PrepMe program workshops to a group of year 11 students from Sailsbury High School. Spread over a 5-week period, sessions included valuable discussions about career pathways, special guests who shared their career journeys, and meaningful conversations over a range of games and activities.

We loved the enthusiasm of the students as they engaged with the program and our volunteers from Kain Lawyers. When asked what their favourite part of PrepMe was, one student shared, “the words of encouragement and having these random strangers believe in me”.

Thank you to the Kain Lawyers Adelaide team for the thought and care they put into planning and delivering these sessions, to our community partner Youth Opportunities for their support in session development and delivery, and Salisbury High School for helping make our Northern Opportunities program possible.

As our Enterprise @ Kain program comes to a close for the year, we’d like to thank our partner ABCN and the Kain Lawyers...
01/09/2026

As our Enterprise @ Kain program comes to a close for the year, we’d like to thank our partner ABCN and the Kain Lawyers teams for the commitment and care they’ve showed during their mentoring sessions with students from Lurnea High School and Copperfield College.

The mentoring sessions, which focused on goal setting, were embraced by students who shared that they looked forward to their time with their mentors and left the sessions feeling more motivated and positive about the future.

A student from Melbourne shared, “Thanks for helping me grow and achieve new and greater things”.

The program was also incredibly impactful for the Kain Lawyers mentors, who were moved by the growth they saw in their mentee’s confidence.

We look forward to working with ABCN and our partner schools again next year. Together, we are enriched.

We're proud to announce the first Kain + You Grant recipient of 2026, the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. In ...
16/08/2026

We're proud to announce the first Kain + You Grant recipient of 2026, the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.

In 2018, Kain Lawyers' Carly Paradis was involved in a serious vehicle rollover near Mungerannie Station in remote South Australia. The RFDS SA/NT responded quickly, arriving on the scene and transporting Carly across outback South Australia to Adelaide, to receive urgent medical care.

Carly nominated the RFDS for a Kain + You Grant to support the life-saving care and ongoing health services the RFDS has been providing for people across remote and regional Australia since 1928. We are honoured to be able to help.

Last week the Kain Lawyers Adelaide team participated in a Youth Engagement Skills workshop ran by Deanna Johnston from ...
07/08/2026

Last week the Kain Lawyers Adelaide team participated in a Youth Engagement Skills workshop ran by Deanna Johnston from our community partner, Youth Opportunities.

The purpose of the workshop was to develop the Adelaide team’s knowledge of effective youth engagement approaches prior to the ‘PrepMe’ workshops they will be hosting in August as part of the Northern Opportunities program.

During PrepMe, participating year 11 and 12 students from Sailsbury High School engage in a series of career exposure workshops delivered by different Kain Lawyers teams in the Adelaide office. The sessions are designed to support students as they prepare for the transition from school to the workforce, including topics such as opportunity exploration, career pathways, independence and interview preparation.

We would like to thank Deanna and the Youth opportunities team for sharing their knowledge to help us better support young people in achieving their goals.

The countdown is on for the Kain Foundation’s first immersion trip to its new international location, Timor-Leste. In t...
30/07/2026

The countdown is on for the Kain Foundation’s first immersion trip to its new international location, Timor-Leste.

In the coming months, the team from Kain Lawyers pictured below will start their pre-travel orientation program, to prepare them for their time in Timor-Leste as Foundation ambassadors and volunteers.

As part of their program they will hear from our community partner Spend It Well, who build schools for children in rural and remote Timor-Leste working in partnership with local communities and the Government of Timor-Leste.

Learn more about Spend it Well’s incredible impact on their website: https://lnkd.in/gMWwHB2X

‘Kain + You’ is the Kain Foundation’s employee-sponsored giving program. Designed to support our people to support the c...
03/06/2026

‘Kain + You’ is the Kain Foundation’s employee-sponsored giving program. Designed to support our people to support the causes they care about, Kain + You allows Kain Lawyers staff to apply for a one-off donation from the Foundation for an organisation or initiative they support.

Consistent with the Foundation’s purpose, funds distributed from the Kain + You pool must support initiatives that directly or indirectly support children and young people to realise their potential. Last year, the Foundation sponsored the following not-for-profit organisations:

Stewart House, a haven dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing health, educational and emotional support over a 12-day stay in their beachside residence.

Butterfly Foundation, a national charity providing services to families, children and young people affected by eating disorders.

Christmas Toy Drive, Kain Lawyers’ Nadia Siv used the sponsorship funds to purchase toys and books to donate to the The Salvation Army Australia’s Christmas Appeal.

We look forward to reviewing the 2026 Kain + You applications and announcing the selected causes in July.

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