Business Research & Innovation Initiative (BRII)

Amount: $25,000 - $2.5 million
Closing Date: 30 April 2024
Purpose: The CEUF is a targeted, competitive grant program that provides co-funding for energy upgrades at existing local government facilities. The program aims to help local governments to:

• Make their facilities more energy efficient
• Lower their greenhouse emissions and energy bills.

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Community Energy Upgrades Fund Program

Amount: $25,000 - $2.5 million
Closing Date: 30 April 2024
Purpose: The CEUF is a targeted, competitive grant program that provides co-funding for energy upgrades at existing local government facilities. The program aims to help local governments to:

• Make their facilities more energy efficient
• Lower their greenhouse emissions and energy bills.

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Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program

Amount: $100,000 - $3 million
Closing Date: 5 March 2024
Purpose: To solve industry identified problems that align with the Government’s priorities, including our commitment to build a Future Made in Australia.  Successful projects from previous rounds have spanned a range of issues from tackling plastic waste and cyber security to lowering emissions from agriculture and taking new Australian battery technologies to market.  

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Energy Efficiency Grants (EEG) for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Amount: $10,000 - $25,000
Closing Date: 8 April 2024
Purpose: To assist small and medium enterprises to upgrade to more efficient equipment. This includes replacing air conditioners with high efficiency units or gas heating boilers with heat pumps, helping SMEs lower power bills and emissions. 

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Highways and Byways Small Grants Program 

Amount: $4,000
Closing Date: 15 March 2024
Purpose: For projects that support people and communities in addressing social and ecological disadvantage and inequality, particularly in rural, regional and remote Australia.

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Improving Health Outcomes for Priority Populations of Women and Girls – Health Promotion Activities

Amount: $4,000
Closing Date: 16 March 2024
Purpose: To support innovative approaches to trialling new initiatives, or expanding existing health promotion activities that focus on improving health literacy, reducing risk, and improving health outcomes within priority population groups

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National Justice Reinvestment Program Round 2

Amount: Undisclosed
Closing Date: 9 May 2024
Purpose: To reduce contact with the criminal justice system and incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults and young people through support for place-based and community-led justice reinvestment initiatives across Australia.

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National Awards for Local Government 2024

Amount: Undisclosed
Closing Date: 18 March 2024
Purpose: Entries are now open for the 2024 National Awards for Local Government, which recognise outstanding innovation implemented by councils that have enhanced local communities. 

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On Farm Connectivity Program

Amount: $3,000 - $30,000
Closing Date: 30 June 2024
Purpose: To enable primary producers in agriculture, forestry and/or fisheries to claim a rebate of between $3,000 and $30,000 for the sale of eligible equipment, with primary producers accessing discounted prices. The rebate can be claimed for up to 50 per cent of the cost of the eligible equipment.

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Play Our Way Program

Amount: $50,000 -$1.5 million
Closing Date: 1 July 2024
Purpose: To support local governments, community, not-for-profit and sporting organisations deliver initiatives to make sport more welcoming and equitable for women and girls. Grants will be available in two streams:

• Facilities – for projects that establish and improve sporting facilities that are designed for women and girls and further encourage them to take part in sport and physical activity by better meeting their needs
   
• Participation and equipment – for programs that encourage women and girls to participate and remain involved in sport and physical activity for life, by tackling barriers such as disadvantage or lack of equipment, and for programs that will lead to sustained cultural change in sport.

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School Student Broadband Initiative

Amount: Access 12 months free broadband
Closing Date: 31 December 2024
Purpose: To provide up to 30,000 families with no internet at home free NBN for 12 months. To be eligible, a family must:

• Have a child living at home that is enrolled in an Australian school.
• Have no active broadband service over the NBN network.

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Strengthening Social Cohesion Grants

Amount: $12.25 million 
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: To support Australian Palestinian, Muslim and other communities affected by the Hamas-Israel conflict. The first round of funding will provide $12.25 million for affected Palestinian, Muslim and other communities, including:  ​

• $7 million for national programs addressing social cohesion impacts felt across communities in Australia;
• $1.25 million to expand and enhance existing social cohesion projects; and
• $4 million for community-led grass roots programs.

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Sponsorship Grants for Student Science Engagement & International Competitions 2024

Amount: $1,500 - $15,000, with a maximum amount per student of $2,000 for domestic events and $5,000 for events requiring international travel. 
Closing Date: 4 April 2024
Purpose: Schools and community groups can apply for grant funding to sponsor a student or group of students to participate in in-person and virtual STEM engagement events.

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Churchill Fellowship

Amount:  Undisclosed
Closing Date: 1 May 2024
Purpose: Calling all artists and cultural workers: You’re invited you to apply for a Churchill Fellowship to travel overseas for four to eight weeks to explore a topic or issue that you’re passionate about and share the knowledge you gain when you return.

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Energy Consumer Australia

Amount:  $15,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To enable residential or small business consumer advocacy by participation in current or forthcoming government, regulatory, or industry decision-making processes, or for small, targeted research projects.

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Live Performance Venue Grant

Amount: $20,000 to $80,000
Closing Date: 3 April 2024
Purpose: Aims to increase the number of fit-for-purpose live performance venues across Greater Sydney, Newcastle-Lower Hunter, Central Coast and Illawarra-Shoalhaven.

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NSW Justice Reinvestment Grant Program

Amount: from $100,000
Closing Date: 18 March 2024
Purpose: To provide funding for community-led programs that focus on reinvesting in Aboriginal communities to reduce contact with the criminal justice system.

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Tertiary Health Study Subsidies

Amount: $12,000 
Closing Date: Applications will close when all subsidies are awarded
Purpose: Are you a student enrolled in a health care degree? You can now apply for up to $12,000 in subsidies to support you in your studies!

This initiative will create a future pipeline of health workers with up to 850 nursing students, 400 medical students and 150 midwifery students expected to enter the subsidy program each year.

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Community Support Grant Program

Amount: $300,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To support the community to deliver activities which require a small amount of funding and/or assistance with Council Services. This is a small grant program, open all year round and assessed monthly,

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Community Environment Grants

Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: 25 March 2024
Purpose: To support community-initiated projects that improve our local environment and/or inspire environmentally sustainable behaviour in Lake Macquarie City. Incorporated, not-for-profit community organisations are eligible to apply, including school Parent and Citizen groups, community-based pre-schools, service clubs, bush regeneration/conservation groups and Sustainable Neighbourhood Groups.

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Lead Mitigation Grants

Amount: Undisclosed
Closing Date: 8 April 2024
Purpose: Provides funding to eligible households that have been impacted by lead contamination from the former Pasminco Cockle Creek Smelter. This includes parts of Boolaroo, Argenton, Speers Point, Macquarie Hills and Edgeworth.

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