If you’ve ever dealt with The Missed Foundation, you will feel the genuine care that is their backbone. This care and attention to detail also shines through their campaigns.
Is your loved one missing? See our dedicated site with advice, a checklist and templates.
Right now, a family is searching for someone they love. Your gift means they don’t do it alone.
Not everyone can relate to having a missing loved one, but everyone knows the ache and longing of missing someone they love. That’s at the core of the experience; the emotional distress, psychological anguish and administrative obstacles are layers of grief on top.
Providing lived experience-led guidance and wraparound support, Missed fills a gap no other organisation can.
Your donation means:
- Specialised counselling for what psychologists consider the most traumatic type of loss and the most unmanageable form of stress
- Plaques to honour loved ones without a grave
- Pro bono legal advice to help navigate the administrative nightmare
- Keeping the Missing Persons Guide free and available when families have no idea where to start
- Designing and printing posters, flyers, bumper stickers
- Accommodation during a search or an inquest
- Access to the Ambiguous Loss Masterclass, so professionals liaising with families understand what they’re carrying
Equally importantly, your support provides an antidote to the isolation – you’re showing this community that you see them, and you care.
Select your preferred
payment method
Raisley
Raisley is another fast and easy payment option you can use to donate directly from your bank account.
Bank transfer
A bank transfer is our preferred method for receiving donations, as it avoids commissions and fees incurred (on both sides) by other methods.
Bank
Bank of Melbourne
Account name
The Missed Foundation
BSB
193-879
Account
447 888 368
PayPal
We also accept donations through PayPal. It’s a secure and convenient way to donate if you prefer using an online payment service.
Where does the money go?
Here’s exactly what your donation does
Support
100+ families
around Australia
guide
50+ people / day
using our Missing Persons Guide
Create
World-first tools
like the Ambiguous Loss Masterclass and The Hope Narratives
Run
Annual campaigns
like National Missing Persons Week
Pioneer
Research
like the Cost of Missingness
THE LITTLE BIG THINGS
Essentials
like a phone line to families
WhY TRUST US?
We’re the dedicated service authorities refer to
The Missed Foundation is the leading national charity providing specialised practical and emotional support to these families, and we have done this work for 14 years without a dollar of government funding — relying entirely on donors and volunteers. And yet we are often contacted and referred by funded government agencies like State and Territory Police, the AFP and DFAT.
GPs, psychologists and crisis counsellors — including from funded services like Lifeline and Beyond Blue — refer families to us, because there’s nowhere else to send them. We’re filling a gap no other organisation can.
We have no overheads
Pro bono and in-kind support covers communications and media support, design, printing, videography, advertising and legal advice, allowing us to do a lot with a little.
Independent Social Return on Investment (SROI) research found that for every $1 invested into Missed, $5.73 of social value is generated (the sector average is $3-$4).
The difference we’ve made
