Like any business, The Better Life Foundation will aggressively pursue any legitimate source of funds that it can while simultaneously seeking to avoid being distracted by fundraising activities.

We have developed several strategies.

1. The Better Life Foundation will search for a permanent source of income. To that end, it will seek opportunities to establish businesses of its own that require little or no capital to establish but will at the same time provide profits from their operations to the Foundation. See example below of Holy Cross Laundry, Brisbane.
2. Beyond Success has committed to funding The Better Life Foundation with a monthly donation of a percentage of profits along with the use of office space and facilities at no cost.
3. Beyond Success has also committed to fund raising activities at its various functions during the year.
4. The Better Life Foundation will seek to establish a large group of committed supporters. These individuals will donate a specific amount of money ($20 - 30 per month) to the foundation as a personal charitable activity.
5. The Better Life Foundation will also create a resource database of people willing to volunteer their time and effort to a specific project (see Volunteering) by attending that project for the purpose of teaching, labouring or supporting.

Holy Cross Laundry, Brisbane.

The Holy Cross Laundry in Wooloowin is significant historically because it is the oldest charitable institutional laundry continuing in operation in Brisbane. It provides rare surviving evidence of the workhouse tradition, associated with a refuge for destitute women in the 19th century. The place has an important association with the Sisters of Mercy and their involvement in pioneering and maintaining charitable institutions in Queensland.

The Holy Cross Laundry was constructed as an auxiliary wing to the Holy Cross Retreat at Wooloowin in 1888-89.

The institution, known more familiarly as the Magdalen Asylum, provided protection for unmarried mothers and women who were either destitute or deemed to be in need of institutional restraint, and for intellectually handicapped persons, regardless of creed. The adjacent laundry functioned as both a source of revenue to support the home and as a means of teaching skills and discipline.

In the 1890s the laundry secured a number of shipping contracts and by the 1920s had grown to become one of the largest commercial laundries in Brisbane.

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