Affordable Housing Bond Aggregator (AHBA)

Amount: Undisclosed
Closing Date: 10 September 2024
Purpose: Housing Australia provides low-cost finance to registered community housing providers (CHPs) for social and affordable housing projects via the AHBA.  To apply for an AHBA loan, applicants must:

• Be a Community Housing Provider (CHP) registered under a law of, or under a scheme administered by, a State or a Territory
• Have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
• Have an Australian bank account
• Legally constituted and do you exist at the date of lodging this form

What can AHBA be used for?

• Acquiring new housing
• Constructing new housing
• Maintaining existing housing
• Assisting with working capital requirements and/or general corporate requirements
• Refinancing existing debts

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Australian of the Year Awards

Closing Date: 31 July 2024
Purpose: The Australian of the Year Awards provide all Australians with the opportunity to recognise someone who goes above and beyond and demonstrates our great Australian spirit.  Nominees can be awarded in one of four Award categories: 

• Australian of the Year
• Senior Australian of the Year (those aged 65 years or over) 
• Young Australian of the Year (ages 16 to 30)
• Australia's Local Hero 

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Artists’ Benevolent Fund

Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To provide immediate assistance following a disaster or catastrophic event in their lives. Pending the capacity of the Fund, the panel may consider larger amounts as appropriate to the need of the beneficiary.

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Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups

Amount: $10,000 - $50,000
Closing Date: 3 September 2024
Purpose: This program funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities.

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Cancer Patient Care Program

Amount: $400,000.00 - $1 million
Closing Date: 1 August 2025
Purpose: Eligible community and cancer advocacy groups can seek funding for one-off, time-limited activities to ensure that all Australian’s living with cancer have access to high-quality and culturally safe support throughout their cancer experience.  

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Community Safety Grants Program

Amount: $500,000 and $2 million
Closing Date: 11 July 2024
Purpose: The program will provide funding to peak Police Citizens’ Youth Clubs and peak Blue Light Organisations to help young people under 25 and at risk of entering the criminal justice system to engage with family and community.

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Creative Futures Fund

Amount: $50,000 - $1.5 million
Closing Date: 6 August 2024
Purpose: Supports the creation and sharing of Australian stories, and new ways for people to engage with them.

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Cyber Security Awareness Grants

Amount: $35,000 - $1.5 million
Closing Date: 11 July 2024
Purpose:  To work with vulnerable members of their communities and reduce the impact of cyber-crime.
These groups will include remote and regional communities, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, First Nations communities, young people, seniors, people with disability and neuro-diverse people.

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Industry Growth Program

Amount:  $50,000 - $5 million
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: Supporting innovative small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and startups to commercialise their ideas and grow their businesses. There are two matched funding grant opportunities:

• $50,000 - $250,000 to support early-stage commercialisation projects
• $100,000 - $5 million for commercialisation and growth projects.

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International Engagement Fund

Amount: $5,000 - $30,000
Closing Date: 17 September 2024
Purpose: To support Australian artists and creative workers including groups and organisations to undertake reciprocal exchange projects with confirmed international partners. 

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International Travel Fund 

Amount: $10,000 - $50,000
Closing Date: 17 September 2024
Purpose: Supports travel costs associated with Australian artists and creative workers including groups and organisations attending market development and cultural exchange platforms or key gatherings overseas.

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My First Speech Competition

Closing Date: 27 July 2024
Purpose: The competition asks students in years 10 to 12 to imagine themselves as a newly elected Member of the House of Representatives. The task is to write a 90 second first speech highlighting issues they are passionate about and record themselves presenting the speech on video. It is designed to increase youth engagement with the House; in particular with high school and college students. A winner from each year group (10, 11 and 12) will be invited to Canberra to deliver their speeches live and undertake a program of meetings at Parliament House.

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National Justice Reinvestment Program

Amount: $20 million
Closing Date: 10 September 2024
Purpose: The National Justice Reinvestment Program is a long-term, community-led approach to shifting people’s interactions away from the justice system by investing in preventative and rehabilitation measures, informed by local stories, evidence and data.

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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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Veterans’ Acute Housing Program

Amount: $30 million
Closing Date: 13 September 2024
Purpose: To provide funding to eligible organisations to improve housing outcomes for veterans and their families. The Program will provide up to $30 million in grant funding under 2 streams:

• $24 million in capital works funding for projects to expand the availability of crisis and transitional housing under the Veterans’ Acute Housing Program – Capital Works Grant (Capital Works Grant); and
• $6 million to fund organisations to deliver specialist support services that address the risk factors for homelessness under the Veterans’ Acute Housing Program – Specialist Services Grant (Specialist Services Grant).

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Veterans’ Health Week

Amount: $1,000 per event
Closing Date: 30 August 2024
Purpose: To encourage people to keep Connected. This Veterans’ Health Week, ex-service and community organisations are encouraged to facilitate events that will bring defence families and the broader veteran community together.

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ClubGRANTS funding Round 2

Amount: Undisclosed
Closing Date: 31 August 2024
Purpose: Provides funding for general community development and support activities, such as junior sport. Eligible organisations 

• Belmont 16's
• Cardiff RSL Club
• Charlestown Bowling Club
• Doyalson Wyee RSL Club
• Lake Macquarie City Council

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ClubGRANTS funding Round 3

Amount:  $50,000 to $300,000
Closing Date: 22 July 2024
Purpose: Provides infrastructure grants for arts and culture, community, disaster readiness, and sport and recreation.

Arts and culture - $50,000 - $200,000
Disaster readiness - $50,000 - $200,000,
Community infrastructure - $50,000 - $250,000  

Eligible   organisations include:

• Belmont 16's
• Cardiff RSL Club
• Charlestown Bowling Club
• Doyalson Wyee RSL Club
• Lake Macquarie City Council

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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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​​​EV Destination Charging Grants 

Amount: $3,000 per single port charger and $6,000 per dual port charger
Closing Date: 2 August 2024
Purpose: Eligible councils and businesses can apply for co-funding for the purchase and installation of electric vehicle (EV) charges at their site. 

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Gone Fishing Day Grants   

Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: 8 July 2024
Purpose: To support recreational fishing clubs, organisations and community groups to purchase items required to run their own Gone Fishing Day events, such as casting and fishing activities and information sessions, on or around Gone Fishing Day.

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Litter Prevention Grants

Amount: $5,000 - $500,000
Closing Date: 18 October 2024
Purpose: Councils, community groups and other key stakeholders can apply for funding to help met the new NSW litter reduction targets.

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Regional Event Fund – Event Development 

Amount: $50,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To support events in regional NSW to grow visitation and increase economic benefits to destinations. The Event Development stream supports the strategic growth of proven events as drivers of tourism.

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State Library Writers’ Fellowships

Amount:  $1,000 - $25,000
Closing Date: 12 July 2024
Purpose: The State Library of NSW offers a number of prestigious and competitive fellowships to support the study, writing and teaching of Australian history and culture. Nominations are now open for the 2025 Fellowships and Scholars Program:

• Imago Creative Writing Fellowship ($50,000)
• Australian Religious History Fellowship ($20,000)
• Dr AM Hertzberg AO Fellowship ($25,000)
• CH Currey Fellowship ($20,000)
• Nancy Keesing AM Fellowship ($25,000)
• David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship ($12,000)
• Merewether Fellowship ($12,000)
• Ross Steele Fellowship AM ($12,000)
• Summer Scholar, 10 positions ($1000)
• Visiting Scholar (unfunded)

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Strategic Weeds Grant Funding – Round 3

Amount:  $300,000
Closing Date: 1 August2024
Purpose: To allow for coordinated control, education, and regional planning of weed management across the Hunter River catchment area. 

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Supporting Spontaneous Volunteers Program 

Amount: $50,000 - $100,000
Closing Date: 19 July 2024
Purpose: To support communities and volunteers to be better prepared, supported, coordinated and mobilised to respond to disaster events.

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Tertiary Health Study Subsidies

Amount: $12,000 
Closing Date: 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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