Wood founded
The Global Mail, a not-for-profit multimedia site for journalism in the public interest. In July 2013,
The Global Mail became the first institutional member of the
Washington-based
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), as part of Wood's three-year, US$1.5 million grant to bolster cross-border
investigative reporting. Other businesses Wood has founded include Wild Mob (2008), a not-for-profit organisation that aims to protect Australia's most threatened species and ecosystems by giving young people the opportunity to participate in conservation work and environmental education; Artology (2011), an organisation focused on youth development and social change through the arts; and Wotnews, which closed in 2012 after spawning
We Are Hunted, a music recommendation website sold to
Twitter in 2013. The Graeme Wood Foundation supports environmental sustainability, the arts, tertiary education and improved justice for Australia's
Indigenous community. In 2010, he gave a political donation of A$1.6 million, to
The Greens and is a donor of
University of Queensland, the
University of Tasmania, and
Melbourne University. In January 2013, Wood became a prominent backer of the digital arm of British newspaper
The Guardian in Australia, which he said would add quality and diversity to Australian media and foster a closer interaction with the rest of the world. In October 2016,
leaked emails from the account of
John Podesta included a claim by a public relations company,
Fenton Communications, that Wood had pledged towards an advertising campaign to counter the
climate change denial stance of media owned by
Rupert Murdoch. Wood has since stated, "It sounded like a good idea at the time but in the end I didn’t proceed with any funding". In 2011, Wood acquired the Triabunna Woodchip Mill in
Tasmania. He submitted plans for the rejuvenation of the site, renamed Spring Bay Mill, in September 2016. ==Awards and honours==