Black Dog Institute

Better Mental Health for all.

Mental illness does not wait for a convenient moment. It arrives uninvited, often quietly, and it touches far more lives than most people realise. They are colleagues, friends, partners, and family members doing their best to hold it together while carrying something heavy and largely invisible.

Black Dog Institute exists to change this, not just through support, but through science. As a medical research institute, they develop and deliver evidence-based mental health tools, treatments, and programs built on rigorous research that genuinely improves lives. They are not just responding to the mental health crisis. They are working to solve it.

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In Australia:

1 in 5 will experience symptoms of mental illness in any given year.
1 in 16 people in Australia are affected by depression every year.
An estimated 65,000 Australians make a suicide attempt every year.

Help research and deliver life-changing mental health support to Australians when they need it most.

The most lasting change comes from understanding. When you choose Black Dog Institute as your charity through The Giving Angel, your gift becomes a meaningful mental health awareness gift that goes beyond immediate support and invests in the research that will help future generations live better, healthier, more connected lives.

For anyone who has ever wished that things could be different for someone they love, choosing Black Dog Institute is a way to turn that wish into something real. Your generosity funds the science of hope, the tools, the treatments, and the breakthroughs that make recovery not just possible but more likely.

Give an Angel. Fund the research. Change the way we give.