Tag: Community Projects

Rural & regional
Community, Rural & Regional

Nutrien Ag Solutions Community Grants Program

Melanie

Funder:  Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR)

Grant Background: Nutrien Ag Solutions is partnering with FRRR to invest across Australia in charitable projects that will contribute to the success, vibrancy and wellbeing of remote, rural and regional communities.

Nutrien Ag Solutions seeks to support the local grassroots organisations that are the heartbeat of remote, rural and regional communities across Australia.

Organisations interested in applying for a grant must first contact a Nutrien Ag Solutions-branded store Branch Manager to be endorsed.

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Agriculture
Community, Rural & Regional

ANZ Seeds of Renewal

Melanie

Funder:  Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal

Grant Background: ANZ Seeds of Renewal is a small grants program designed to help build vibrant and sustainable rural communities, to ensure the ongoing prosperity of regional Australia.

This year, the program celebrates 20 years of collaboration, demonstrating ANZ’s ongoing commitment to shape a world where people and communities thrive. It is built on two key tenets:

  • Vibrant communities are diverse and inclusive with strong social capital, where everyone can participate and build a better life; and
  • Sustainable communities innovate, expand, and create opportunities that will deliver demonstrable medium to long-term economic benefit to the community, contributing to economic sustainability.

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Community
Children & Youth, Community, Women

Infrastructure Grants – Community Infrastructure

Melanie

Funder:  NSW – Office of Responsible Gambling

Grant Background:  The objective of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants program is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and communities affected by bushfires.

You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:

  • Multipurpose community service or hub
  • Service for a CALD community
  • Service for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community
  • Service for homeless people
  • Service for older people
  • Service for people experiencing domestic violence
  • Service for people with disability
  • Service for young people
  • Service for women.

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Rural & regional
Community, Rural & Regional

Nutrien Ag Solutions Community Grants Program

Melanie

Funder:  Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR)

Grant Background: Nutrien Ag Solutions is partnering with FRRR to invest across Australia in charitable projects that will contribute to the success, vibrancy and wellbeing of remote, rural and regional communities.

Nutrien Ag Solutions seeks to support the local grassroots organisations that are the heartbeat of remote, rural and regional communities across Australia.

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Fire and flames
Community, Rural & Regional

Black Summer Bushfire Recovery

Melanie

Funder:  Federal – National Recovery & Resilience Agency

Grant Background: The Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants program will support the recovery efforts of communities in eligible Local Government Areas affected by the 2019-20 bushfires and enables them to apply for projects that address community recovery needs within their own timeframes.

The Australian Government will directly fund successful applicants to conduct a range of projects designed to support the social and economic recovery, and restoration of the built environment in those communities.

The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:

  • support recovery and resilience of communities impacted by the 2019-20 bushfires, and
  • build stronger communities by supporting social, economic and built environment recovery.

The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are to:

  • empower local communities to address bushfire recovery priorities, including through creation of jobs, sustainable infrastructure and community investment targeted at the specific needs of the community, and
  • rebuild and grow the economy of the local communities impacted by the bushfires.

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Community
Community

NAB Foundation Community Grant

Melanie

Funder:  National Australia Bank Foundation

Grant Background:  NAB Foundation Community Grants can help you safeguard your community with funding for projects that prepare for natural disasters, support long-term recovery and build resilience against future disasters. They fund local projects aiming to do one or more of the following:

  • help people and places prepare for natural disasters
  • assist in short and long-term recovery efforts
  • build community resilience against future disasters
  • strengthen the environment to be more resilient to natural disasters
  • help communities reduce their climate risk.

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Community
Community

Infrastructure Grants

Melanie

Funder:  NSW – Office of Responsible Gambling

Grant Background:  The NSW Government offers grants to communities across NSW to support the building, renovation and fit-out of infrastructure. Funding is available for arts and cultural infrastructure, sport and recreation infrastructure and projects that assist communities with essential infrastructure and disaster readiness.

Infrastructure Grants can be used toward the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure in the following categories:

  • Arts & Culture: up to $200,000 per project
  • Community Infrastructure: up to $200,000 per project
  • Disaster Readiness: up to $200,000 per project
  • Sport & Recreation: up to $300,000 per project

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Community
Community

Australia Post Community Grants

Melanie

MOVE QUICKLY! THIS ONE CLOSES ON SUNDAY!

Funder:  Australia Post

Grant Background:  The 2021 Australia Post Community Grants program aims to support community-led, local projects that connect individuals and communities to improve mental health and wellbeing.  They recognise that everyone has a role to play in maintaining mental health and wellbeing.

They are specifically looking for projects that meet all of the following criteria:

  • The primary purpose of the project is to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes of a community.
  • The project will help people meaningfully connect in their local community.
  • The project is locally led and locally delivered, and benefits a community.

They strive for geographic distribution of grant recipients among metro and regional communities and also look to support projects assisting particularly vulnerable groups.

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Rural & regional
Community, Rural & Regional

Crown Reserves Improvement Fund

Melanie

Funder:  NSW – Crown Land

Grant Background: Crown land managers, reserve user groups, and all NSW showground managers are invited to apply for the 2021-22 Crown Reserves Improvement Fund (CRIF) Program.

The CRIF supports asset improvements on Crown reserves by providing funding for:

  • repairs and maintenance projects
  • pest and weed control
  • new recreational infrastructure

The CRIF provides financial support for the development, maintenance and improvement of Crown reserves. Grant and loan funding can be applied for each year when the applications are open. The funding aims to benefit the community, boost our economy and contribute to the cultural, sporting and recreational life of NSW.

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Community
Community, Rural & Regional, Sport

Stronger Country Communities Fund

Melanie

Funder:  NSW – Regional NSW

Grant Background: The Stronger Country Communities Fund was established in 2017 by the NSW Government to deliver local projects that enhance the lives and wellbeing of regional communities.

The objectives of the fund are:

  1. to boost the liveability of communities in regional areas by providing new or upgraded social and sporting infrastructure or community programs that have strong local support
  2. to deliver enhanced infrastructure and programs that remove barriers to female participation in sport across regional NSW.

There is a total of $100million available in Round Four, including up to $50million for projects that enhance female sporting facilities and increase female participation in sport in regional NSW. The remaining funding is available for other local community and sporting infrastructure, street beautification, and community programs and local events.

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