Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Grant Opportunities

Amount: $96 million
Closing Date: 16 February 2024
Purpose: The grants will support organisations across four immediate activities:

• Community-led Prevention Services, Programs and Campaigns for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
• Community-led Men’s Wellness Centres for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• Increasing Capacity of Crisis Accommodation Services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community-Controlled Organisations

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Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grants Program

Amount: $10,000 - $60,000 
Closing Date: 12 February 2024
Purpose: To support projects that promote Australia’s creative sector and First Nations identity to deepen bilateral partnerships and strengthen our reputation as a modern diverse nation internationally.

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Australian Sports Foundation

Purpose: The Australian Sports Foundation operate Australia’s only sport-specific and tax deductible fundraising platform to help cover things like:

• Sporting equipment: Purchase new uniforms or upgrade old gear
• Facilities and grounds: Fund new facilities or give existing ones a much-needed boost
• Coaching and training costs: Help athletes and teams reach their full potential
• Travel costs: Break down distance barriers and compete on a broader scale
• Participation or development programs: Open doors for future champions
• Athlete welfare and support: Improve mental health and overall wellbeing

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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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Financial Wellbeing and Capability Grant Program

Amount: $120 million
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To support eligible individuals and families experiencing financial crisis and hardship. It can provide Emergency Relief and Food Relief, as well as Financial Counselling, Financial Capability or Financial Resilience services including Microfinance products such as low or no interest loans.

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First Nations Languages Education Program

Amount: $14 million
Closing Date: 28 February 2024
Purpose: To support primary schools to teach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages in classrooms across Australia.

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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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PM's Prize for Science

Closing Date: 8 February 2024
Purpose: The PM Prizes for Science are Australia’s most prestigious awards for outstanding achievements in scientific research, research-based innovation and science teaching. The Prizes also recognise the critical role primary and secondary school educators play in inspiring and encouraging students to take an interest and consider careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

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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 Shed Development Program (NMSP)

Amount: $10,000
Closing Date: 23 February 2024
Purpose: The program supports Men’s Sheds and organisations supporting a Men’s Shed to better respond to the needs of the members and their local community. There are 5 funding categories:

• Health and wellbeing and events
• Shed improvements
• Tools and equipment
• Mental health and wellbeing events
• Automated external defibrillators.

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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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Schools Upgrade Fund Round 2 - Government Schools 

Amount: $250,000
Closing Date: 29 February 2024
Purpose: The SUF Round 2 will support government schools invest in larger-scale capital fund projects, such as new classrooms, building refurbishments, outdoor learning spaces or major upgrades. A minimum of $250,000 (GST exclusive) of funding must be committed to each project.

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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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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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Supporting People with Cancer (SPWC) Grant

Amount: $40,000 - $120,000
Closing Date: 29 February 2024
Purpose: To enhance support for individuals affected by cancer by promoting equity in cancer outcomes and experiences. 

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Urban Rivers and Catchments Program R2

Amount: $200 million
Closing Date: 13 February 2024
Purpose: To restore rivers and waterways in our cities, transforming concrete drains into natural creeks with plants and animals. The program will fund projects including, but not limited to:

• habitat and habitat ‘corridor’ establishment for native wildlife
• riverbank revegetation, stream re-naturalisation, and chain of ponds/wetland creation initiatives
• water quality improvement to benefit aquatic species
• wetland creation to slow, filter and remove stormwater from aquatic systems
• re-establishment of ‘pathways’ to support movements and migrations of aquatic native species through installation of fish ‘ladders’ and 'passage ways'
• prevention of stormwater-sourced plastic entering aquatic and marine environments through installation of litter and gross pollutant traps.

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Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program

Amount: $150,000 
Closing Date: 6 February 2024
Purpose: To support the commemoration of Australian veterans and their families. Funding for a wide range of commemorative projects is available under the program, with previous successful projects ranging from memorial walls and flagpole installations to video documentaries and solar light fittings.

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Arts & Cultural Funding Program Round 2 

Amount: $200,000
Closing Date: 19 February 2024
Purpose: Funding is available for all artforms in four categories:

• Creative Koori Projects for individuals/groups and organisations up to $60,000
• Project funding for individuals and groups - up to $60,000
• Project funding for organisations - up to $60,000
• Annual funding for organisations - up to $200,000.

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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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Environmental Education

Amount: $3,000 
Closing Date: 5 February 2024
Purpose: To provide funds to projects that develop knowledge and skills in protecting and restoring our environment. Funding proposals are expected to incorporate the following elements:

• environmental benefit
• community need
• collaboration
• transformative learning leading to behavioural change
• evaluation and dissemination.

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Justice Reinvestment Grant Program

Amount: $3,000 
Closing Date: 5 February 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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Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program

Amount: $3,000 
Closing Date: 23 February 2024
Purpose: To provide Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and associated equipment to NSW sport and recreation facilities and clubs.

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Safe Places for Faith Communities Program 2023-24

Amount: $5,000 - $250,000
Closing Date: 15 February 2024
Purpose: The Safe Places for Faith Communities Program provides grant funding for places of worship and other eligible places where faith communities gather regularly.

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State and Territory Landcare Awards

Closing Date: 1 March, 2024
Purpose: To honour individuals, groups and organisations that are making outstanding contributions to caring for the environment in their local communities for the benefit of all Australians today, and for generations to come.

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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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Environmental Research Grant

Amount: $8,000
Closing Date: 15 February 2024 
Purpose: To support projects that will assist Council and other environmental managers to develop appropriate land-use practices, plan remedial and preventative works and adjust management strategies.

University researchers (students and academics) and research-based organisations are encouraged to apply.

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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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