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Pooling donor resources and selecting advocacy projects
Mannifera is a pooled philanthropic programme whose published arrangements combine member decision-making with a fund hosted through the Australian Communities Foundation. Its 2024 grant disclosures include support for Reset.Tech Australia and the Human Rights Law Centre.
The published historical process describes executive assessment, a member shortlist, taskforce endorsement and consensus at a member gathering. The timetable inspected was for 2023, so it is not proof that every step occurred identically in the 2024 special round. That round lists $40,000 for Reset and $60,000 for HRLC; the records are awards, not verified bank receipts, and do not allocate specific 2026 legislative clauses to donors.
Mannifera → Reset.Tech Australia
$40,000 Signature Grant, dis/misinformation round. Supports research/advocacy into policy and social-media inquiry including OSA review, not particular2026 clauses. Currency code, exact award/payment date and cash receipt absent. Financial details: value: 40,000; currency: unspecified ($); kind: published grant award; period: calendar2024
The Myer Foundation → Mannifera
165,000 approvedFY2022, labelled membership2021-24, dash for commitment fromFY24. Not newFY24 cash. Separate5,000/9,100 entries not added here; current65,000 minimum not retroactively applied. Financial details: value: 165,000; currency: unspecified ($); kind: reported earlier membership award; period: 2021-2024; approvedFY2022
Australian Communities Foundation → Mannifera
General FAQ/template identify Australian Communities Foundation Limited trustee and ABN20 077830347. Donor requests/advisory committees recommend; trustee need not follow preferences and retains authority. Not a signed Mannifera arrangement or identified payor of each grant.
Mannifera → Human Rights Law Centre
$60,000 Signature Grant. Currency code/payment state unknown. Older grants not combined; shared grantor does not establish HRLC-Reset coordination. Financial details: value: 60,000; currency: unspecified ($); kind: published grant award; period: calendar2024
Mannifera collective decision process → Mannifera
EO assesses, up to six members shortlist, Taskforce endorses, voting members reach consensus at Muster. Explicit2023 timetable; not established execution of2024 special round or automatic recusal. Current Board terminology is not backdated.
Mannifera → Australian Communities Foundation
Guide describes partnership/sub-fund and collective decisions; ACF independently confirms members give together through it. Specific Reset/HRLC contracting payor and individual approval votes not obtained.
Mannifera → Rights-First —4October2024
Report dated4October2024; award/payment timing unspecified
Acknowledgment establishes support for output; no grant number/amount or allocation of the entire60,000 award. Do not infer donor endorsement or editorial approval.
The most consequential bridge is McKinnon's commission of two identified reports, one of which expressly recommends considering a duty of care and the other of which transmits EU and UK transparency models. Mannifera supplies a quantified award for advocacy during the Online Safety Act review. The Internet Society Foundation award has a different, documented children's-privacy research purpose.
Read the research & sources ↗The Mannifera identification is supported by the donor explicitly naming Reset, rather than merely correcting a similar spelling. Internet Society Foundation's return gives the legal recipient name. The other recipient-only names remain at their disclosed scope: no exact Boundless legal entity, unnamed donor identity, Reset US award amount or NSW reimbursement amount is resolved by this pass. The closed ACNC route was not reopened.
Read the research & sources ↗The narrow next records are the special-round assessment/shortlist and conflict-management record; the Mannifera–ACF executed arrangement and HRLC approval/grant letter; and HRLC's expert-convening agenda, participant list, agreed statement/version history and grant-completion report. Those would distinguish a jointly endorsed reform position from a named author's funded framework and later compatible advocacy. Likely custodians are Mannifera/ACF for selection and grants, and HRLC for the convening and output. No request has been sent.
Read the research & sources ↗The supported chain is: a member contributes or commits to the pool; Mannifera's published process selects aligned projects; ACF retains grant authority under its general arrangements; an HRLC publication credits Mannifera and articulates a regulatory position; HRLC reports taking that work to Parliament. The actual 2024 selection file, grant contract and coalition endorsement record are separate missing links. No single member's control of the project, common donor instruction over report text, or government adoption of all recommendations has been established.
Read the research & sources ↗Reset.Tech Australia: three documented funding instruments ↗
Mannifera selection, fiscal authority and the HRLC reform output ↗
Mannifera → uses pooled ACF sub-fund route → Australian Communities Foundation
Guide describes partnership/sub-fund and collective decisions; ACF independently confirms members give together through it. Specific Reset/HRLC contracting payor and individual approval votes not obtained.
Mannifera → records2024 grant for transparency advocacy → Reset.Tech Australia
$40,000 Signature Grant, dis/misinformation round. Supports research/advocacy into policy and social-media inquiry including OSA review, not particular2026 clauses. Currency code, exact award/payment date and cash receipt absent.
Financial details: value: 40,000; currency: unspecified ($); kind: published grant award; period: calendar2024
Mannifera → records2024 grant for expert alignment and advocacy → Human Rights Law Centre
$60,000 Signature Grant. Currency code/payment state unknown. Older grants not combined; shared grantor does not establish HRLC-Reset coordination.
Financial details: value: 60,000; currency: unspecified ($); kind: published grant award; period: calendar2024
Mannifera collective decision process → published historical process selects projects by staged consensus → Mannifera
EO assesses, up to six members shortlist, Taskforce endorses, voting members reach consensus at Muster. Explicit2023 timetable; not established execution of2024 special round or automatic recusal. Current Board terminology is not backdated.
Australian Communities Foundation → retains trustee approval over hosted grant recommendations → Mannifera
General FAQ/template identify Australian Communities Foundation Limited trustee and ABN20 077830347. Donor requests/advisory committees recommend; trustee need not follow preferences and retains authority. Not a signed Mannifera arrangement or identified payor of each grant.
The Myer Foundation → reports historical three-year membership award → Mannifera
165,000 approvedFY2022, labelled membership2021-24, dash for commitment fromFY24. Not newFY24 cash. Separate5,000/9,100 entries not added here; current65,000 minimum not retroactively applied.
Financial details: value: 165,000; currency: unspecified ($); kind: reported earlier membership award; period: 2021-2024; approvedFY2022
Mannifera → publication acknowledges grant support → Rights-First —4October2024
Report dated4October2024; award/payment timing unspecified
Reported by the cited source
Acknowledgment establishes support for output; no grant number/amount or allocation of the entire60,000 award. Do not infer donor endorsement or editorial approval.