Our story
Aurum Foundation was established to do the work that the market and the state have not done. It builds the infrastructure that allows people outside traditional structures to be safe, to connect and to participate fully in Australian life.
The Foundation grew out of a decade of practice in social enterprise, journalism, broadcasting and community advocacy. Its founder, Kyriakos Gold, is autistic. His experience of exclusion, and of the systems that produce it, shaped the Foundation’s mission and its direct, practical approach to change.
The Foundation’s first major program, Autistic Pride Day, began as a community event and grew into a year round harm prevention initiative active across 22 countries. The Autistic Standard, the Foundation’s behavioural safety framework, was developed alongside it.
The Foundation is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission and operates as a public company limited by guarantee. It is a certified social enterprise. Its programs are funded through commercial partnerships, so free access for communities grows as the Foundation’s reach grows.
The structures change. The mission does not.
Aurum FoundationOur moral compass
