Danielle Schutte
Recognised for innovative approaches to homelessness, including We Are Mobilise, which transfers funds to homelessness services to support people in crisis.
About this finalist
- Year: 2026
- Level: Finalist
- Award category: Community Award
About the 2026 nomination
Danielle Schutte is the Co-Founder and COO of We Are Mobilise, an Australian charity on a mission to solve homelessness, not just manage it.
She has spent her career designing and scaling programmes that break new ground in how Australia responds to homelessness, from the country's first randomised trial of direct cash transfers, to its first major funding partnership for this kind of work. Since We Are Mobilise began with a pilot of just 11 people, Danielle has helped grow it into a national movement, distributing over $4.5million to 1,600+ people facing homelessness working alongside partners and advocates including Nedd Brockmann.
Danielle trained in public health before crossing over from strategy and consulting to build Mobilise full time, driven by a simple belief: that the circumstances people are born into don't have to decide their future.
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