Where this map comes from.

Why this page exists

Care Share Do is a map of groups doing good in their own places. A lot of what is on it came from somewhere else, published openly by governments, by volunteers and by the organisations themselves. Open data usually comes with one condition attached: say where you got it.

This page is that. It names every source behind the map, links its licence, and sets out what we changed. If you want to check our working, start here.

Australian charities

The largest single source on the map is the ACNC Registered Charities dataset, published by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission on data.gov.au and refreshed there each week. It is the public register of every charity registered in Australia.

Attribution. This map contains information from the ACNC Registered Charities dataset, © Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence. The data has been adapted by Climateers Pty Ltd and the ACNC has not endorsed, checked or had any part in what appears here. The section below says what we changed.

As at 21 October 2026 this accounts for 13,353 listings, all of them Victorian. Other states are prepared but not yet loaded.

What we changed

The licence lets anyone reuse the register as long as changes are declared. Ours are:

• Names. Long registered names are shortened for the card, cut at a word boundary. The full registered name stays in the record.
• Causes. The coloured cause tags are ours. The register has no such field; we derived them from the charity's own registered subtype and the beneficiaries it reports. Treat them as our reading, not the ACNC's.
• Positions. The register carries addresses, not coordinates, so every pin was placed by us. PO boxes were set aside. 7,975 sit at a verified street address. The rest sit at the centre of their postcode and are marked as approximate, because the register does not say where they are more precisely than that.
• Logos and websites. Taken from each charity's own website, not from the register. Where several charities shared one web address we kept the logo and withheld the link, rather than merge organisations that are not the same.
• What is drawn. 3,093 charities that have only a postcode, no website and no logo are kept out of the map view, because a pin at a postcode centre carrying nothing else tells you less than nothing. They remain in the directory, remain searchable, and any of them can be put back.

We add nothing else. No ratings, no scores, no inferences about any charity, and nothing merged from another source under a charity's name.

What we leave alone

The register and its companion datasets carry a good deal more than we use: annual information statements, financial reports, and the people responsible for each charity. None of that is on this map. We take what helps someone find a group near them and nothing beyond it.

Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons

Wiki Local, the layer that tells you about a place rather than a group, is built from Wikipedia. Article text is used under CC BY-SA 4.0 and each card links back to the article it came from.

Place photographs come from Wikimedia Commons. Each photograph carries its own photographer and licence on the card it appears on, because they differ from image to image.

Postcodes

Postcode centres come from GeoNames, used under CC BY 4.0. This includes Australia. Any pin described as approximate is sitting on a GeoNames postcode centre.

The map underneath

The land, water, roads and place names are OpenStreetMap data, made by volunteers and licensed under the Open Database License, drawn as map tiles by CARTO. Searching for a place uses Photon, also built on OpenStreetMap. These credits also appear in the corner of the map itself.

Turning addresses into pins

Australian street addresses were matched to coordinates by Mappify, which is built on G-NAF, the national address file. Mappify asks for no attribution; we name it because you should be able to tell how a pin got where it is.

G-NAF carries one condition that comes with it: addresses derived from it must not be used to send mail unless each one is checked against a second source. We do not post mail to anyone, and none of this data is used for that.

A pin is only shown at a street address when the street and the street number we asked for are the street and number that came back. Where they did not match, the address comes off the card and the pin stays at the postcode, marked approximate. We would rather say we do not know than put a group on the wrong doorstep.

Community directories

Many listings began life in a network's own public "find one near you" directory, published by the network itself so that people could find its local groups. Among them: Rotary, U3A, Vinnies, the Salvation Army, Lifeline, community banks, op shops, Men's Sheds, Landcare, Repair Cafes, Electrify Victoria and the Clean Cooking Alliance. Australian council areas and their boundaries come from the national gazetteer.

These are facts about where a group meets, not creative work, and they were published to be found. We still name the networks, because the work of keeping those directories current was theirs and the map is better for it.

Corrections, claims and removal

If your group is on the map and something is wrong, you can claim the listing and correct it yourself. If you would rather it was not here at all, say so and we will take it down. No argument and no form to fill in.

If a pin is in the wrong place, telling us the street address is the fastest fix. If a cause tag is wrong, that one is ours, not the ACNC's, and we want to know.

Email hello@climateers.com.

Our own work

The map, the cards, the writing on this site and the design are ours. Everything a member writes on their own card belongs to them. Nothing on this page grants rights over either, and nothing on this page is legal advice about your own reuse of the sources named: if you want to use them, read their licences, which are linked above.