The Hank Young Foundation is committed to providing guidance and financial support to projects associated with the education and welfare of Australia's Indigenous people.

Assistance for Indigenous projects is available Australia wide and ranges from short to long term and individual to community based support.

In 1989, The Hank Young Foundation established Rivermount College at Yatala, Queensland. Rivermount College is a co-educational, non-denominational Christian College for students from Prep to Year 12. The mission of the College is to build bridges between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous people of Australia. Since its inception, Rivermount College has provided Aboriginal students with the opportunity to complete their Primary and Secondary education through scholarships funded by The Hank Young Foundation.

The Hank Young Foundation has also been instrumental in the establishment of Shalom College in Townsville and more recently Radiant Life College in Innisfail, North Queensland.

"In my experience of this world, two qualities are always in need understanding and compassion." Dr Neville Bonner

Main Objective:

• The object of the Foundation is to use and hold the trust fund and any income thereof for the welfare and education of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

Specific Objective:

• to provide finance and other support for activities contributing to the relief of poverty including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, activities contributing to income generation, job creation and micro, small and medium businesses and other self-help activities;
• to identify, support, initiate, control and conduct effective educational institutions and programs;
• to identify, support, initiate, control and fund non-profit activities, such as workshops, co-operatives and other similar non-profit projects;
• to identify, initiate, develop, control and fund projects for housing, accommodation, community welfare and development projects, including health and services, child care, hostels and retirement homes;
• to fund scholarships for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students and provide funds to individual Indigenous students;
• to employ staff for, and assist with social, pastoral and welfare activities, including homeless, youth and prisoners;
• to provide and fund leadership training in education, business and social, pastoral or welfare work;
• to fund research programs;
• to provide funds to other charitable funds, institutions and associations