GROLLO RUZZENE FOUNDATION

The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation is a charitable foundation established by Rino Grollo and Diana Ruzzene Grollo to direct their family’s future charitable activities.

The trustee of the fund is Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Pty Ltd. 
Grollo Ruzzene Foundation is a Prescribed Private Fund which, effective from 29 May 2007, has been endorsed by the Federal Treasurer as Deductible Gift recipient.

GROLLO RUZZENE FOUNDATION    Statement of Charitable Policies    Dated 4th July 2006

Charitable causes

• The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation will provide support to the Royal Children's Hospital in its day to day activities as a major research and clinical centre for the State of Victoria.
• The Foundation will continue to support the Assisi Homes for the Aged, which provides for the Aged in the Italian Community in Melbourne.
• The Foundation will also support the Open Family of Homeless Kids in its activities in Metropolitan Melbourne.
• Similar charities and providers of like services will be included in this list as the Foundation develops.

Cultural matters

• The founders have provided significant personal and financial support to the Victorian Government in its Multiculturalism Program.  This will be taken up by the Foundation.
• The founders have also established lasting relationships over the past twenty years with Monash University.  The University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology and La Trobe University.  Scholarship programs have been established with some of these institutions and direct grants and donations to others to promote specific educational activities.
• The Foundation will also support these various Universities with their educational programs for a number of specific areas.
• The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation will provide scholarships and research funds for graduate and post graduate students in a number of disciplines through these Universities.  Typical of these is the Centre for Protein Structure at Monash University, Clayton Campus which will bear the Grollo Ruzzene Foundation’s name.
• The Foundation will support the Italian Community in Melbourne in its pursuit of maintaining and continuing Italian cultural links with Italian values and the like for expatriate and Immigrant Italians in Australia.  Bodies such as the Italian Australian Institute Research Centre established by the Grollo Family in 1999 in conjunction with La Trobe University at Bundoora, Melbourne will receive support as will the Italian Chamber of Commerce for its cultural and business exchange programs with Italy including the Veneto region.
• The Foundation will support major cultural institutions including the Victorian State Library, The National Gallery of Victoria, the Melbourne Museum, the Melbourne Zoo and the National Trust of Australia in their pursuits for the preservation of Australian and Victorian heritage.
• The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation will also provide financial and technical support to the restoration and preservation of a number of historic churches in Metropolitan Melbourne, whose continued existence provides major framework for the religious part of Australian culture in the 21st century.  The Grollo Family has in recent years provided significant funding and resources to St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral and St. Francis Church in Melbourne and is presently contributing to resoration work at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in North Melbourne.  A number of these churches will continue to be supported.

Social & sporting activities

• It is planned that the Foundation will take responsibility for part of the Grollo Family’s continued support of elite athletes involved in the Winter Olympics each four years as well as supporting the Olympic Winter Institute.