About Croakey’s funding sources

Croakey has a mixed revenue stream that includes support from members of our funding consortium. There are four tiers of funding consortia:-

Health Equity Champion
Health Equity Star
Health Equity Heart, and
Health Equity Supporter

The details of each tier can be found here and a list of current consortium members is outlined below.

Social journalism activities, including the Croakey Conference News Service and #CroakeyGO events, also provide funding.

We also generate funds for our public interest journalism activities from our commercial arm: Croakey Professional Services, which provides consultancy and training services. We also apply for grants from various bodies to support public interest journalism activities.

Probono

Thompson Geer Lawyers have taken Croakey to the next phase of our evolution.

In 2018, they established Croakey as an organisation and supported us through the establishment of Croakey as a Not-For-Profit entity.

Funding Consortium members

Health Equity Champion

Health Equity Star

Health Equity Hearts

Australian Health Promotion Association

Public Health Advocacy Institute of WA

Australian College of Health Service Management

George Institute for Global Health

North Western Melbourne PHN

Cancer Council WA

Health Equity Supporters

Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education

National Rural Health Alliance

Public Health Association of Australia

VicHealth

Carers Australia

Grant sources

ACMA

The Judith Neilson Institute

Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation

The Oak Foundation

Previous consortium members

Palliative Care Australia

Centre for Health Policy, University of Melbourne

Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW

McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol and Youth

School of Public Health, University of Sydney

School of Public Health, University of New South Wales

College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University

School of Population & Global Health, University of Western Australia

School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia

Individual Donors

Julia Anaf

Lynette Brodie

Brigid Coombe

Gordon Gregory

Birdie Gurley

Holley Jones

Julie Leask

Peter Lindenmayer

Charles Maskell-Knight

Bernard McCormick

John Rogers

Lesley Russell

Penelope Smith

Jan Sweet

Alison Tomlin

David Vaile

Tarun Weeramanthri

Jacob Wilson

Henry Woo

Professional Services Clients

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland

Aboriginal Health & Medical Research Council of NSW

Australian Centre for Public and Population Health Research, University of Technology, Sydney

Equity Trustees

Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity, Flinders University

Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council

Indigenous Allied Health Australia

School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of NSW

Sydney West Translational Cancer Research Centre

The Lowitja Institute

The Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research & Enterprise

UWA School of Indigenous Studies

Conference News Service Clients

Australasian College for Emergency Medicine

Australian College of Nursing

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency

Australian Health Promotion Association

Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association

Centre for Aboriginal Health, NSW Ministry of Health

Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of NSW

Choosing Wisely Australia

Community Mental Health Australia

Consumers Health Forum of Australia

Equally Well

Lowitja Institute

Mental Health Victoria

National Rural Health Alliance

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Safer Care Victoria

The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

Victorian Health Promotion Foundation

Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council

CroakeyGo

Cohealth sponsored #CroakeyGO #VicVotes

NWMPHN sponsored #CroakeyGO #NavigatingHealth

IPC Health sponsored #CroakeyGO #HeatwaveHealth

A heartfelt thankyou to all of our generous sponsors, funders and individuals who make our work possible.

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Croakey is supported by two main funding consortia, whose contributions help to pay the Croakey News team. We would not be able to operate without our editorial team, who commission, edit and publish articles and also support special projects.

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Members of the consortium are provided ten complimentary yearly subscriptions to the weekly Croakey News bulletin (total value $600), and a further discount offered on bulk subscriptions. Members are acknowledged on the Croakey website with organisation logo on the front page and name and link to your website here.

If you would like to be part of one of the Consortia, please contact us at: support@croakey.org.

What people say about Croakey

Croakey is a must read for anyone who craves the public health stories that no one else reports. A truly independent and critical voice that both exposes health injustices and champions smart solutions to health inequalities.

Dr Becky Freeman

Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney

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Croakey provides snappy, expert views on the whole spectrum of public health issues, from equity to efficiency, from determinants to prevention to management. A one-stop shop to catch up on pet issues, and discover and adopt new ones.

Professor Jon Karnon

Flinders University

Mental Health Victoria – Croakey Conference News Service coverage of #Lived Experience online forum
Mental Health Victoria, in partnership with the Victorian Healthcare Association, ran an online forum on the importance of embedding the voice of lived experience in mental health system reform.
Croakey journalist Marie McInerney did an exceptional job of covering the event through both real-time social media posts and a written article summarising the discussion and themes that arose during the forum.
Her regular Twitter posts throughout the event generated lively discussion and helped emphasise and elevate the important contributions from the consumer voices.
The article that Marie wrote on the event, titled “Imagine a mental health system that meets the needs of consumers and carers” took the reader on a journey through the forum’s key themes along with images and other media to supplement the discussion. It received very positive feedback from all involved.

Larissa Taylor

Director, Policy, Mental Health Victoria

So happy to be creating and coding for such a dedicated, professional and good-humored team.

Mitchell Ward

Artistic Director and web developer at Croakey Health Media

If you care about a public health issue, or want others to care, get it online and get it on Croakey.

Professor Tarun Weeramanthri

Public health physician

Croakey has, over some years, provided a platform for debate about health policy, planning, funding and services. There aren’t enough places for these debates, and important issues affecting the health of our community risk going unexplored. Croakey helps to fill this hole. Viva Croakey!

Sebastian Rosenberg

Senior Lecturer, Brain and Mind Centre, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney

The Oceanic Palliative Care Conference (21OPCC) is the leading conference in the Oceanic region for anyone who is interested in quality palliative care and end-of-life care, thought-leadership, information, and ideas. Contracting Croakey Media Services for September 2021, ensured PCA maximum media coverage to a wider audience across health, medical and social sectors. Croakey published in-depth news features previewing and promoting the conference, and Croakey journalists live Tweeted the conference across the conference and pre-conference events, contributing to our conference trending on the 9th of September 2021. Croakey also allowed PCA to manage the @WePublicHealth twitter account, which further helped us share the conference to a bigger audience. In total Croakey provided eight articles and an hour-long podcast post-event. Delegates noted the interaction with Croakey as a great asset to the event and it was a pleasure to work with such a committed, talented and diligent group of professionals. Thank you again for your work, and we hope to continue our relationship in years to come.

Kellie Sydlarczuk

National Events Coordinator, Palliative Care Australia

Croakey – like a sore throat spreading amongst friends – helps to spread healthy ideas rapidly through the blog and the Twittersphere. Thank you Croakey.

Michael Moore

Public health leader

Croakey is a must for anybody looking to stay on the cutting edge of health news.

Alison Verhoeven

Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association

The future of health care is too important to leave to the mainstream media. Croakey provides a platform for robust, respectful and inclusive debate on the health issues that really matter.

Jennifer Doggett

Croakey editor and health policy analyst

Dr Becky Freeman

Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney

About Croakey’s funding sources

Probono

Funding Consortium members

Health Equity Champion

Health Equity Star

Health Equity Hearts

Health Equity Supporters

Grant sources

Previous consortium members

Individual Donors

Sponsored Editorial 2019

Professional Services Clients

Conference News Service Clients

CroakeyGo

Help support non-profit public interest journalism

Join one of our annual Funding Consortia

What people say about Croakey

Follow us on social media

Merchandise

Contacts

Projects

Testimonials

Donations

Help support non-profit public interest journalism

Join one of our annual Funding Consortia

What people say about Croakey

Follow us on social media