Erin works to make systemic change to Australia’s enduring problems. She aims to help disadvantaged or marginalised group thrive. Erin believes that secure and safe housing provides the basis of a good life.
Erin is Senior Program Manager – Homelessness and Affordable Housing at the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, the community foundation for Melbourne. She has over twenty years’ experience as a grants program manager and has worked in a variety of impact areas, notably homelessness, housing, family violence and access to the law. She is experienced at developing and managing granting programs that benefit charities and wants to grow impact investing in Australia.
Erin created and chairs the Affordable Housing Funders Network through Philanthropy Australia, where she advocates for the use of philanthropy to help house Australians. She manages the Foundation’s Affordable Housing Challenge, a program focused on the development of underutilised land, buildings and strata to create more affordable housing. The Affordable Housing Challenge won Philanthropy Australia’s 2020 Better Philanthropy Award.
Erin has a Master of Arts (History) from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Southern Cross University.
Project
To investigate international housing funds to increase affordable housing in Australia
Erin Dolan
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