The Centre for Social Impact is an Australian research and education body created in 2008. It assesses and promotes integrated social change across a range of issues including health, children and young people, ageing and disability, financial inclusion and employment, population diversity and mobility, education and housing. CSI was founded to meet the main recommendation of a Global Access Partners taskforce on philanthropy in higher education co-chaired by

Peter Fritz Peter Adalbert Robert George Fritz (born 4 January 1943) is an Australian businessman and philanthropist. He was born in Arad, Romania and migrated to Australia in 1962. He has been Group managing director of the TCG Group of Companies since 19 ...

AO and Professor

Ian Young (academic) Ian Robert Young, AO (born 17 January 1957) is an Australian academic. He is the Kernot Professor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He previously held the senior administrative roles of Vice-Chancellor of Swinburne University of Tec ...

. Its inaugural CEO was

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. the centre is headed by Professor Kristy Muir. It is a collaboration of academics and researchers based at four universities:

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; Swinburne University of Technology in

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;

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Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...

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; and (since 2022) Flinders University in

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. CSI is funded by an

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endowment of and matching funds from private partners, including the Macquarie Group Foundation,

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, National Australia Bank and

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. CSI has worked with government agencies, commercial firms and not-for-profit organisations on over 30 research projects and has developed an extensive post-graduate program as part of its work in assessing the social impact of government and philanthropic activities. Its projects include a map of Australia's "Social Pulse" to assess national progress on social issues.

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