Infrastructure that gets people home
A platform that moves funding from donor to housing provider, same day, with full accountability at every step.
Three Things That Make It Work
Australia's homelessness organisations do extraordinary work. Mobilise is the infrastructure that makes them work faster, better-funded, and fully reportable.
Through a technology platform that moves money at speed, a national network of charity partners, and a growing evidence base, we are changing how Australia thinks about homelessness.
Each makes the others more powerful. Together they compound: getting faster, smarter and more impactful with every participant that comes through.
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Distribution Platform
The technology that makes Direct Giving possible at scale.
Purpose-built to move funding from donor to housing provider as fast as possible – same day in most cases – with every transaction tracked, every outcome recorded, and every dollar reportable.
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Charity Network
The relationships that mean we can reach anyone in Australia.
50+ specialist homelessness organisations across every state and territory. We don't duplicate what our partners do – we give them a funded, traceable pipeline that gets their clients into housing faster than they could manage alone.
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Permission Layer
We are building Australia's evidence base for direct cash transfers for homelessness.
Developed with the University of Melbourne and Paul Ramsay Foundation, our randomised controlled trial data gives funders, government and boards the proof they need to act – and the language to report on it.
The Programs.
Direct by Design.
Every Mobilise program is direct by design – funding reaches the housing provider same day, through a verified charity referral, with full outcome tracking from first contact to stable tenancy.
Kickstarter
Bond, rent in advance, and rent arrears – paid directly to the housing provider, same day. Financial support to get someone into and keep them stable housing.
1,500+ people supported. 300+ years of housing covered. Our flagship program.
Employment
Employment pathways in partnership with Toll Group – connecting people facing homelessness with real jobs, supported induction, and ongoing employment.
Housing stability and economic participation are not separate outcomes. We're funding both.
Pay
12 months of direct financial support for single mothers – covering bills, groceries, and activities.
Designed to prevent the financial pressure that tips families into homelessness before it happens.
Pilot underway – not currently accepting referrals
Matched
Australia's first randomised controlled trial of direct cash transfers for people experiencing homelessness. Cohort-based. Mentoring-supported.
Developed with the University of Melbourne and Paul Ramsay Foundation. The evidence base that underpins everything we do.
We're Just
Getting Started.
In 2022, it took us 20 months to distribute our first million dollars. Now it takes three months.
The platform is built. The evidence is in.
We are working with government, the Melbourne Institute, and the Paul Ramsay Foundation.
The infrastructure is proven – 1,500+ people housed, $3M+ distributed, and accelerating. The question is no longer whether direct cash transfers work. We've answered that. The question now is how fast we scale – and that depends on who funds the next stage.
Our goal: 10,000 Australians into stable housing by 2030. At our current trajectory, that's not a dream. It's a plan.
What Mobilise’s support has meant to people
“It's a home. That is so meaningful after being homeless for almost 3 years. It's home.”
“Our clients have been facing long-term homelessness, and with the Mobilise Kickstarter support, they've been able to finally get into their first private rental and break the decades-long cycle of generational homelessness.”
“I don't know what I would have done without the assistance of Kickstarter, I definitely would have lost my home. And as a result of being homeless and not having anywhere to live, I would have also most certainly lost my job.”
“I’m loving my new home, I can have my children with me any time they like to come and stay. I even had Christmas at my place this year with all of my family. I haven’t had a Christmas like that for the last 11 years, so it was very special to me. I’m very grateful to Mobilise, thanks for your support.”
“After receiving the funding from the Kickstarter program I let go a sigh of relief I think l'd been carrying for years. After all we had been through, having to move while injured was pushing me to a point I wasn't sure I was capable of. The funding couldn't have come at a more needed time. With a mountain of debt due to the circumstances I'd just left, Christmas just around the corner, and a 15 year old son financial stress was going to be the last straw. Getting the funding has given me a chance to get on top of things. It saved me, us, in more ways than I can tell you. Thank you.”