Tabitha Lovett

Tabitha graduated from Monash University with a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Skills and Ethics and a Bachelor of Arts/Law.

She has been involved in the philanthropy sector for over 15 years and in that time managed  some of Australia’s most established charitable trusts including, the William Buckland Foundation, the Alfred Felton Bequest, Charles and Sylvia Viertel Charitable Trust and, R.M. Ansett Trust as well as the grant manager for the Victoria Law Foundation and a solicitor at King & Wood Mallesons.

Tabitha is passionate about the role that philanthropy plays in the community in tackling social issues that require innovative, compassionate, and sustainable solutions. Before moving into the philanthropy sector in 2008 she worked as a social justice lawyer at Justice Connect and that experience and exposure to the causes and contributors to inequality, hardship and disadvantage underpins her approach to the practice of philanthropy.

Her skills and experience cover the full spectrum of the philanthropic sector: including the relevant law, governance and regulatory framework and taxation issues; investment oversight, discretionary grant-making, reporting and evaluation.

In 2007, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to research free legal services for charities and not-for-profits in the United States which informed the establishment of Not-for-Profit Law at Justice Connect.