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About the Summer Foundation


The Summer Foundation invests in identifying, designing and scaling up great ideas that deliver better housing and living solutions for Australians with disability who need access to 24/7 support.


What we do

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Research

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Co-design

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Policy

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Innovation


Join us for this year’s Annual Public Forum

We’ll get together in-person and online to talk about housing and living for people with disability who need access to 24/7 support. We will focus on the reforms that are needed to fulfil the NDIS promise in housing and living and look at what role innovation can play. 

Research

We are home to one of Australia’s leading disability research teams. Through our partnership with La Trobe University, our research delivers a practical and rigorous evidence base to transform housing and living options for people with disability who need access to 24/7 support.

Our research team consists of academics and clinicians working on more than 25 projects across the disability, health and housing sectors. The team collaborates with universities and government, with findings regularly published in reports, conferences and peer-reviewed manuscripts.

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Innovation

We identify and rigorously test good housing and living support ideas and refine and scale up great ideas in partnership with the best and brightest minds. 

We want to build on our strong evidence base by partnering with people with disability and like-minded organisations, including universities, technology innovators and service providers, to deliver better housing and living solutions for people who need access to 24/7 support.


Latest news

Summer Foundation Focus – September 2024

Welcome to our September newsletter. It’s a busy and exciting time for the Summer Foundation as we refocus our work on designing better housing and living solutions for Australians with disability who need access to 24/7 support.
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