Grants Newsletter - November 2020
Welcome to the November edition of the grants newsletter.
As always, I am more than willing to provide a letter of support for any funding application our community groups and sporting clubs wish to make. This can be organised by contacting my Grants Officer, Milly Pink, directly at amelia.pink@aph.gov.au. Please provide us with at least two weeks’ notice and include a draft of your application with your request to ensure a detailed letter of support can be provided.
Please ensure that you read through the eligibility criteria thoroughly before starting your application.
If I or my office can be of any further assistance at any time, please do not hesitate to contact my office on 8398 5566.
Kind regards
Rebekha Sharkie MP
Federal Member for Mayo
BUSHFIRE SUPPORT GRANTS
Strengthening Community Wellbeing after Bushfires Grant Program
This program seeks to support projects in bushfire affected areas that strengthen community mental health and wellbeing.
Applications close 30 Jun 2021
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) – Bushfire Crisis Support
This program aims to assist IBA's business finance and home loan customers directly impacted by the current bushfires through the loss of property or compulsory evacuation.
Max$15,000
Applications close 30 Apr 2021
St.George Foundation, Bank of Melbourne Foundation and BankSA Foundation – Bushfire Assistance Grant
This program aims to extend support to communities who have experienced devastating losses as a result of Australia’s 2019-20 bushfire emergency.
Max$300,000
This program aims to help people affected by bushfires across Australia.
Westpac Disaster Relief Package
This program aims to offer immediate practical help to assist customers to manage the impact of natural disasters on their finances.
Regional Tourism Bushfire Recovery Grants
This program aims to support initiatives in fire affected areas that celebrate what’s unique about that local community to give international and/or domestic visitors a reason to visit and return, bringing the economic benefits of tourism, but also providing the community with a positive focus in the wake of the fires.
Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC – Quick Response Funding
This program aims to provide support for researchers to travel to disaster-affected areas to gain an understanding of the event, the impacts and to capture perishable data.
Max$3,000
Red Cross Financial Assistance Grants
This program aims to provide financial assistance for bushfire-affected people in financial hardship.
Max$7,500
Applications close 31 May 2021
Westpac Bushfire Recovery Support Package
This program aims to provide support for customers and communities impacted by ongoing bushfires across Australia.
The Salvation Army Australia Disasters and Emergencies Assistance
The Salvation Army offers a range of services and assistance measures to help people and communities impacted by disasters.
COVID19 SUPPORT GRANTS
COVID-19 National: Business, Non-Profits – Local Recovery Fund
This program aims to support select regions experiencing high unemployment to develop local and tailored projects, to help Australians get back into work and assist communities recover from the economic impact of COVID-19.
Max$25,000
Applications close 13 Dec 2020
COVID-19 SA: Business, Non-Profits – VET Market Continuity Package
This program aims to provide immediate relief to the training sector to ensure the state’s VET market was effectively positioned to support industry skill demand in the COVID-19 economic recovery phase.
Max$5M
Applications close 31 Mar 2021
COVID-19 National: Non-Profits – COVID-19 Arts Sustainability Fund
This program aims to provide 'last resort' funding assistance to significant Australian Government-funded arts organisations that are assessed to be at imminent risk of insolvency as a direct result of COVID-19, having taken all reasonable action to maintain their financial position.
Max$100
This program aims to assist current stalled projects to resume or get into production, and will contribute to the COVID costs for some projects, particularly those that are of scale.
Max$4M
Applications close 28 May 2021
This program aims to support local film and television producers to start filming again in circumstances where new productions have been halted by insurers not providing coverage for COVID-19.
Max$50,000
Applications close 16 Nov 2020
This program aims to support early-career and mid-career researchers to increase connectivity and engagement between Australian and Asia-Pacific economies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Max$10,000
COVID-19 SA: Individuals – Helpmann Academy Creative Stimulus Grants Scheme
This program aims to provide support to emerging South Australian creatives in the wake of COVID-19.
COVID-19 National: Individuals – Support Act COVID-19 Crisis Relief Grants
This program seeks to offer crisis relief to music industry professionals impacted by COVID-19.
Max$1,000
Applications close 31 May 2021
COVID-19 SA: Business, Non-Profits – SATC Resilience and Rebound Program
This program aims to provide business support for South Australian tourism operators to help work through the COVID-19 crisis and have the necessary tools they will need to help with recovery post event crisis.
Max$10,000
Applications close 30 Nov 2020
ARTS
Australia Council for the Arts – Playing Australia: Regional Performing Arts Touring Program
This program aims to support performing arts to reach regional and remote communities across Australia.
Max$15,000
Applications close 26 Nov 2020
Country Arts SA – Regional Arts Fund: Quick Response Grant
This program aims to assist applicants who are unable to apply for support from other funding sources because the opportunity occurs outside of a normal grant round.
Music Development Office – Project Support Grants
This program seeks to support the creation, presentation, production and delivery of original music within the South Australian music sector.
Screen Australia – Indigenous Programs: Documentary Development
This program seeks to provide practitioners with the opportunity to create appropriate written and/or visual materials to ensure that projects are as strong as possible when competing for production finance.
Screen Australia – Producer Offset
This program aims to offer a refundable tax offset (rebate) for producers of Australian feature films, television and other projects.
Max$150,000
PPCA Performers' Trust Foundation Grants
This program aims to promote and encourage music and the music-related performing arts.
Applications close 7 Jan 2021
Gordon Darling Foundation Grants Program
This program aims to provide funding for a range of visual arts projects Australia-wide.
Max$250,000
Applications close 17 Nov 2020
Australia Council for the Arts – Contemporary Music Touring Program (CMTP)
This program aims to support national touring activity undertaken by Australian musicians performing original contemporary music.
Max$50,000
Screen Australia – Distribution Support: P&A Plus
This program aims to enhance the distribution and marketing of quality Australian films across traditional and alternative release platforms.
Screen Australia – International Co-production Program
This program aims to encourage production and foster relationships between international filmmakers.
Screen Australia – Documentary Production: Producer Program
This program aims to provide producers with the flexibility to drive projects both creatively and commercially, with Screen Australia funding as the foundation for growing and securing deals.
Max$35,000
Applications close 14 Jan 2021
Screen Australia – Indigenous Programs: Drama (Feature Development)
This program aims to provide opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers with demonstrated experience to extend their craft and their ideas in the longer feature format.
Max$2,000
Screen Australia – Feature Film Production
This program aims to support a diverse slate of Australian films for theatrical release that entertain and enlighten domestic and international audiences while reflecting the unique characteristics of Australian identity.
Screen Australia – Documentary Production: Producer Equity Program
This program aims to provide a direct payment of funds to producers of eligible low budget Australian documentaries, equal to 20% of the approved budget.
Max$80,000
Screen Australia – Indigenous Programs: TV Drama Development
This program seeks to provide practitioners with the opportunity to create appropriate written and/or visual materials to ensure that projects are as strong as possible when competing for production finance.
Australian Screen Production Incentive – Location Offset
This program aims to provide an additional financial incentive for the production and post production of large budget screen productions in Australia.
Max$6,000
Screen Australia – Sector Development: Indigenous Travel Grants
This program seeks to assist Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander screen content makers in travelling to key international and Australian events.
Australian Screen Production Incentive – Post, Digital and Visual Effects Offset (PDV Offset)
This program aims to provide an additional financial incentive for the production and post production of large budget screen productions in Australia.
Applications close 11 Dec 2020
Screen Australia – Indigenous Practitioner Support: Internships
This program seeks to assist the career development of talented screen content makers who can demonstrate a strong commitment to a career in the film industry.
Screen Australia – Indigenous Programs: Drama (Feature Production)
This program aims to invest in a limited number of outstanding low-budget feature film projects which are based on strong and original ideas, and can demonstrate the potential to reach an audience.
Applications close 22 Jan 2021
Screen Australia – The Guardian Online Documentary Initiative
This program aims to provide Australian filmmakers with the opportunity to reach an international audience via one of the world’s leading English-language news sites.
Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) – State of Play
This program is designed to unleash innovative storytelling through collaboration between nonfiction stories and gaming technologies – bringing new documentary games to life.
Max$1,000
Country Arts SA – Arts Development Grants: Shows on the Road (GAL)
This program seeks to support a network of regional presenter groups in their efforts to present high quality, professional performances in their own community.
Max$25,000
Arts SA – Arts and Culture Grants Program: Richard Llewellyn Deaf and Disability Grants
This program aims to support the values for which Richard Llewellyn worked and lived - the arts and people with disabilities.
Applications close 30 Jun 2021
South Australian Film Corporation – Post Production, Digital and Visual Effects (PDV) Rebate
This program aims to develop the South Australian post production, digital and visual effects sector with an incentive that compliments the Australian Federal Government’s Australian Screen Production Incentive Producer Offset (40%) and PDV Offset (30%) streams.
Max$3,000
Screen Australia – Screen Culture: Industry Partnerships
This program aims to create opportunities through new, original and inclusive approaches to the industry that will expand networks and grow the Australian industry.
Screen Australia – Indigenous Programs: TV Drama Production
This program aims to invest in outstanding drama television projects which are based on strong and original ideas, and can demonstrate the potential to reach an audience.
Screen Australia – Indigenous Programs: Documentary Production
This program seeks to support strong and distinctive documentary projects primarily to assist in the professional development of the key creative team.
Max$130,000
Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund
This program aims to provide equity investment in Australian screen production for the big and small screen.
Screen Australia – Documentary Production: Commissioned Program
This program is designed to support the production of a diverse range of quality documentaries made primarily for free-to-air or subscription television broadcast, VOD platform or similar (Commissioning Platforms), that offer a compelling vision and have clear enduring cultural value beyond their initial availability.
Max$30,000
Screen Australia – Documentary Development Program
This program seeks to assist documentary makers in achieving planned outcomes for thedevelopment of their projects.
Max$2M
Applications close 26 Nov 2020
Screen Australia – General Drama Production
This program seeks to support the creation of a diverse slate of quality, innovative, original, culturally significant small-screen storytelling that resonates with contemporary audiences.
Max$20,000
Screen Australia – International Marketing Support: Festivals and Awards
This program seeks to support the promotion of Australian content and talent at the key international festivals and awards events, enabling the enhancement of international marketing strategies in conjunction with other partners.
Max$3,000
Screen Australia – International Marketing Support: Pitching Events/Talent Lab
This program is for attendance by producers selected for key pitching events in order for them to secure finance, production and marketplace partners for Australian projects, and/or for key creatives invited to talent labs for professional development and building international industry networks.
Screen Australia – Online Production
This program aims to invest in the production of scripted projects that take risks and push the envelope of fiction storytelling.
Screen Australia – Children's Programs Production
This program aims to support the creation of television drama programs of interest or relevance to children.
Max$70,000
Screen Australia – Enterprise People
This program aims to support individuals to take advantage of development opportunities and build sustainable creative screen careers, share information and experience between industry participants to build capability, and promote the business opportunities and commercial benefits of gender equity, diversity and inclusion.
Max$10,000
Applications close 30 Nov 2020
Music Development Office – Live Music Venues Grant Program
This program seeks to support South Australian venues to continue to present live music, recognising the difficultly to do so viably with current COVID-19 capacity restrictions.
South Australian Film Corporation – Production Support: Revolving Film Fund (RFF)
This program aims to provide secured loans to finance narrative driven, long-form drama and documentaries which are either stand-alone projects or series, and are produced in South Australia.
Max$5,000
Applications close 24 Nov 2020
Australia Council for the Arts – Translation Fund for Literature
This program aims to provide contribution towards the translation of Australian works of creative writing such as fiction, poetry, writing for children and young people, graphic novels, and narrative non-fiction (defined as autobiography, biography, essays, histories, literary criticism or analytical prose).
Max$2,500
Screen Australia – International Finance Fund
This program seeks to support projects with a very high level of international commercial appeal to leverage international partnerships and finance.
Max$1,500
South Australian Film Corporation – Production Support: Payroll Tax Exemptions
This program offers a payroll tax exemption to producers shooting feature films in South Australia (SA).
COMMUNITY
National Shed Development Programme
This programme aims to allow men's sheds and organisations supporting a men's shed within their community to apply for funds to better respond to local needs.
This program aims to help those committed to creating long-term change for the good of the people and planet.
Applications close 31 Dec 2020
Pride Foundation Australia – Small Grants Program
This program aims to support projects proposed by individuals and or organisations and or communities who would otherwise be limited by the constraints of other funding programs.
Perpetual Trustees – IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program
This program allows philanthropists and not-for-profits (NFPs) to connect, and allows NFPs to demonstrate how they improve outcomes for the communities in which they operate.
This program seeks to support projects in local and international communities, empowering and supporting people with the skills and knowledge to help those communities that need it most.
Harcourts Foundation Grants (Australia)
This program aims to support reputable community-based organisations which need funding for projects and initiatives designed to benefit as many people as possible.
This program aims to support eligible organisations that create a better Australia through education, medicine and the arts with a focus on young people, the disadvantaged and Indigenous Australia.
Universal Charitable Fund (UCF) – Small Grants
This programme aims to support small, tax deductible, not-for-profit agency who are helping those in need in Australia or overseas.
Max$1,500
This program aims to help fund and empower organisations that are focused on helping others.
Max$300,000
Applications close 17 Dec 2020
This program aims to help create positive and caring communities. Sponsorships are available in the amounts of $1,000, $2,500 and $5,000.
Community Enterprise Foundation Grants Program
This program aims to support projects and activities that offer clear public benefit for the community, contributing to its development in building social capital, community welfare, environmental, health, education or cultural areas.
Max$200,000
Applications close 30 Jun 2021
Impact Investment Ready Growth Grant
This program aims to provide capacity building grants to mission-driven for-profit and not-for-profit organisations, allowing them to secure investment capital to scale their social impact.
Applications close 31 Mar 2021
This program aims to support community-based organisations by providing funding for projects that fall within the nominated priority areas.
DISABILITY SUPPORT
Information Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) Program – Economic and Community Participation
This program aims to build the capacity of the community to create opportunities for people with disability to contribute to community prosperity and participate in community life.
Employment Assistance Fund (EAF)
This program seeks to provide financial assistance to a person with disability or their employer for workplace modifications, equipment and services they require as a result of their disability and are necessary for them to be able to perform their employment duties.
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
This program aims to support the training of apprentices and trainees to help employers gain skilled workers to drive innovation and growth.
Skilling South Australia – Building Capability Projects
This program offers a series of professional development activities and events for the VET sector State-wide, to inspire excellence and promote best practice in VET training, assessment and educational leadership.
Max$15,000
Skilling South Australia – Flexible Apprenticeships Employer Bonus Payment
This program aims to increase school-based apprenticeships, kickstarting careers for young people and building a pipeline of skills to equip the workforce for the jobs of the future.
Max$200,000
Applications close 10 Dec 2020
Skilling South Australia – JobTrainer Projects
This program aims to meet the skills and workforce needs of businesses by engaging and skilling young people in targeted industry sectors.
Max$500,000
Applications close 17 Dec 2020
Skilling South Australia – Projects Funding
This program aims to support projects that drive apprenticeship and traineeship growth in South Australia.
Applications close 30 Apr 2021
Skilling South Australia – Travel and Accommodation Allowance
This program seeks to support rural and regional apprentices and trainees to complete their training by subsidising their travel costs.
Max$50,000
Applications close 12 Feb 2021
Ansvar Insurance – Community Education Program Grants
This program aims to support sustainable programs for Australians under the age of 25, promoting ongoing education and skills making a significant difference to the lives of participants.
Max$15,000
Regional Employment Trials Program
This program aims to provide local stakeholders in selected regions, including businesses, not-for-profits and local government agencies, with grants to trial local approaches to delivering employment related projects.
ENVIRONMENT
Australian Bird Environment Foundation (ABEF) Community Grants
This program aims to support practical community-based projects which deliver bird and habitat conservation impacts.
Max$8,000
Applications close 27 Nov 2020
Wildlife and Habitat Bushfire Recovery Program
This program aims to help local communities deliver bushfire recovery for their local environment, and support broader long-term recovery and resilience.
NACC Biodiversity Community Grants
This program aims to improve the management and protection of the regions flora and fauna to ensure its ecological values are retained for future generations.
Max$12M
Applications close 9 Dec 2020
Green Industries SA – Valuing Business Waste Grants
This program seeks to support South Australian businesses to identify better ways to manage waste and transition to a circular economy.
Max$1M
Green Industries SA – Circular Economy Market Development Grants
This program seeks to assist South Australian companies, local authorities, organisations and research institutes to further their market development efforts associated with recycled materials and recycled-content products within the current challenging environment and transition to a more circular economy business model.
Max$750
Green Industries SA – Business Sustainability Funding: Leap Grants
This program seeks to support business and industry sectors take a leap towards building a circular economy.
Max$500,000
Applications close 2 Dec 2020
This program seeks to assist South Australian businesses make improvements in resource (materials, energy, water) and process efficiency, and waste management, as a way to reduce production and operating costs for business and support the transition to a circular economy.
FINANCE
Ecstra Foundation – Financial Capability Grants
This program seeks to equip Australians with the support and access to resources they need to make confident money decisions now, and for their financial future.
Max$10,000
Applications close 14 Dec 2020
Rural Financial Counselling Service (RFCS) Grant Program
This program aims to provide funding to eligible organisations to deliver services under the RFCS Program in the 12 predefined service regions from 2021-22 to 2023-24.
Max$4,000
Applications close 19 Dec 2020
Rural Financial Counselling Service (RFCS)
This program aims to provide free financial counselling services nationally to farmers, fishing enterprises and small, related businesses suffering financial hardship.
Max$400,000
Applications close 7 Jan 2021
CPA Australia – Mentor the Treasurer Program
This program aims to help the smallest not-for-profit organisations to improve their governance and better manage their funds through providing pro bono guidance to volunteer treasurers, with a focus on those who have no formal training in accounting.
Max$500
Applications close 6 Dec 2020
Social Enterprise Development and Investment Funds (SEDIF)
This program aims to offer finance and support to eligible social enterprises to help them grow their business and increase the impact of their work in their communities.
Max$1M
Applications close 30 Jun 2021
HEALTH
Ian Potter Foundation – Medical Research
This program aims to advance understanding and improve treatment of major diseases by supporting major initiatives by leading Australian research institutes, universities and teaching hospitals in innovative biomedical research.
Local Drug Action Team Program
This program aims to support communities to work together to prevent and reduce the harmful effects of alcohol and other drugs.
This program aims to increase clinical trial activity in Australia, help patients access clinical trials, and enable researchers to bring international trials to Australian patients.
Max$2M
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – Primary Health Care Research Initiative
This program aims to increase Australia’s evidence base in primary health care through research to improve service delivery and patient outcomes, and translate this knowledge into action.
Max$5M
Applications close 1 Dec 2020
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – Emerging Priorities and Consumer Driven Research Grants
This program seeks to support high-quality research that improves patient care, translates new discoveries into practice, and encourages consumers and researchers to work together on emerging priorities.
Max$150,000
Applications close 25 Feb 2021
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission
This program seeks to support a million Australians with mental health issues access new approaches to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
Max$10,000
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – Preventive and Public Health Research Initiative
This program seeks to support targeted research on new ways to address risk factors for chronic and complex diseases in Australia.
Max$15,000
Applications close 27 Nov 2020
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – Frontier Health and Medical Research Program
This program aims to fund the development of bold and innovative Australian healthcare projects of great potential and global impact in any area of activity within the health system.
Max$2M
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – Global Grand Challenges
This challenge is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems.
Max$20,000
Suicide Prevention Australia – Innovation Research Grants
This program aims to build evidence to enable continued improvements in suicide prevention models and strategies, including for at risk groups, at the national and regional level.
INDIGENOUS SUPPORT
Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) – Community Led Proposals
This program aims to provide grants to proposals that address a need for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Max$5,000
Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation – Agribusiness Investment Program
This program aims to support the development and growth of Indigenous agribusinesses to create a thriving and sustainable Indigenous agribusiness sector.
Indigenous Land Corporation – Our Country Our Future Funding Program
This program aims to provide a wide range of assistance to those proposing projects from brokering and developing partnerships, to facilitating and coordinating support, to providing funding assistance.
Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) – Tailored Assistance Employment Grants
This program aims to connect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with real and sustainable jobs.
Applications close 31 Dec 2020
Indigenous Fire and Land Workshops Program
This program seeks to support Indigenous-led knowledge sharing of Indigenous fire and land management practices delivered through workshops Australia wide.
Max$750,000
Applications close 30 Nov 2020
Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) – Business Development and Assistance Program (BDAP)
This program aims to assist Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people to access the skills, knowledge and resources required to start and grow a viable, sustainable business.
Max$25,000
Applications close 24 Nov 2020
Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) – PBC Capacity Building Funding
This program aims to assist Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBCs) generate economic benefits through the effective and sustainable management of their land.
TSRA Economic Development Programme – Business Funding Scheme
This program aims to help Indigenous people to start or buy and own commercially viable businesses.
Applications close 31 Dec 2020
REGIONAL GRANTS
This program aims to finance projects that directly benefit the South Australian dairy industry and its communities.
Thirsty Cow aims to provide continued and sustained relief to Australian farmers, graziers and their families suffering financial or other distress (because of serious misfortune, helplessness, exhaustion or illness) arising from the effects of natural disasters such as severe drought, flood and bushfire and their resulting hardships including loss of livelihood and unemployment.
Max$1.5M
Applications close 26 Nov 2020
Drought Angels aims to provide financial assistance, food hampers, care packs and personalized support to thousands of farming families across Australia.
Community Development Program (CDP)
This program aims to support job seekers in remote Australia to build skills, address barriers and contribute to their communities through a range of flexible activities.
Rural Aid aims to provide practical and essential services for farmers during and following natural disasters across Australia.
This program aims to provide eligible farmers and their partners experiencing financial hardship with assistance through planning and training for long-term financial improvements as well as income support.
Family and Business (FaB) Support Program
This program aims to help farmers, farming families and regional businesses in South Australia dealing with the impact of the recent bushfires.
Max$25,000
Applications close 31 Dec 2020
FRRR – Strengthening Rural Communities Program
This program, formerly known as Small Grants for Rural Communities, aims to give small rural, regional and remote communities across Australia the opportunity to access funds that can benefit and help secure their future prosperity.
FRRR – Tackling Tough Times Together Grants Program
This program aims to help communities access the resources they need to support one another through the ongoing effects of the drought.
Max$3M
PIRSA – Connecting Drought Communities: Events Grant
This program seeks to support community groups and local governments in eligible drought-affected areas of South Australia to hold activities, events and functions aimed at helping members of drought-affected communities maintain their wellbeing and build resilience.
Pool$16M
Applications close 30 Jun 2021
South Australian Council Rate Rebate Scheme
This program aims to support eligible primary producers to assist with farm business related costs.
Max$250
Highways and Byways – Small Grants Program
This program aims to assist people and communities to address disadvantage and inequality particularly in rural, regional and remote areas of Australia.
Max$2,000
Drought and Rural Assistance – Taxation Measures (Australian Taxation Office)
This program aims to deliver a number of tax assistance measures for farming families, businesses and rural communities.
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
Research, Commercialisation and Startup Fund (RCSF)
This program aims to contribute to economic growth by supporting collaboration between enterprise, researchers and universities and the commercialisation of new products and services, building research and research infrastructure capability in South Australia through increased investment and encourage the establishment and growth of startups.
Max$5M
Applications close 15 Dec 2020
iMOVE CRC – Industry PhD Program
This program seeks to offer an opportunity for companies and government to work closely with the best and brightest students to develop new technology, processes, and thinking.
Applications close 20 Nov 2020
NHMRC – European Union Collaborative Research Grants
This program aims to provide a contribution to Australian researchers participating in leading international collaborative research that has been favourably evaluated for funding under select European Commission Horizon 2020 topics.
Applications close 2 Mar 2021
This program aims to provide funding and support to create new opportunities for researchers and policy makers to work together to define research questions, undertake research, interpret the findings and implement the findings into policy and practice.
Max$1M
Applications close 18 Nov 2020
Industrial Transformation Training Centres (ITTC)
This program aims to foster close partnerships between university-based researchers and other researchers.
Max$500,000
Industrial Transformation Research Hubs (ITRH)
This program aims to engage Australia's best researchers in issues facing the new industrial economies and training the future workforce.
Rosemary Bryant Foundation – Research Grants
This program aims to raise funds to improve health outcomes through commissioning or supporting nursing and midwifery research.
Max$20,000
Applications close 31 Dec 2020
Australian Research Council – Linkage Projects
This program seeks to support projects which initiate or develop long term strategic research alliances to apply advanced knowledge to problems, acquire new knowledge and as a basis for securing commercial and other benefits of research.
Max$100,000
SCHOOLS
Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (PACER)
This program is an Australian Government initiative that provides financial assistance to support students' on-site learning about national democratic, historical and cultural institutions in Canberra, the nation's capital.
This program aims to assist non-government primary and secondary school communities to improve capital infrastructure where they otherwise may not have access to sufficient capital resources.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Innovate with nbn™ Grants Program
This program aims to recognise and showcase individuals, businesses or organisations that are innovators, disrupters or entrepreneurs inspiring others in their community, champions of digital adoption, continuing to facilitate the digital capabilities and benefits of nbn, and advocates of supporting regional businesses.
Max$1,000
These awards aim to close the gender gap in the field by educating the next generation of female leaders in AI and to increase female representation and participation in AI.
Max$200,000
Applications close 22 Dec 2020
Moon to Mars Initiative – Demonstrator Feasibility Grants
This program aims to provide industry and research institutions with grant funds for new feasibility activities for space projects.
Max$30,000
Applications close 20 Nov 2020
Inspiring Australia – Science Engagement Programme: Citizen Science Grants
This program seeks to support community participation in scientific research projects that have a national impact.
Applications close 31 Mar 2021
Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship Program
This program seeks to support investment in gender equity initiatives that aim for lasting systemic change by eliminating barriers for women’s participation in STEM education and careers, and entrepreneurship.
Max$120,000
Applications close 4 Dec 2020
This program aims to create opportunities for the public and private sectors to come together and create impact at scale, using technology.
Australian Geographic Society Sponsorship Program
This program seeks to support scientific research, protecting and fostering a love for the environmental and natural heritage, encouraging the spirit of discovery and spreading the knowledge of Australia to Australians and the world.
Cyber Security Business Connect and Protect Program
This program aims to provide business advice to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) which have a demonstrated reach and influence over a large number of SMEs across regional and metropolitan Australia.
Max$9,000
Applications close 11 Dec 2020
SENIOR AUSTRALIANS
Business Improvement Fund for Residential Care
This program aims to support residential care providers and improve their business operations, ensuring the needs of senior Australians are met.
Good Things Foundation – Be Connected Program: Building Digital Skills Grant
This program aims to enable organisations to support older Australians 50+ through free face-to-face contact, either one-on-one or in small groups, to develop their digital skills and confidence, utilising the learning courses available on the Be Connected Learning site.
SPORTS
Local Sporting Champions Program
This program aims to provide financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-18 participating in state, national or international championships.
Applications close 11 Feb 2021
Office of Recreation, Sport and Racing Infrastructure Grants
Community Recreation and Sport Facilities Program (CRSFP)
The objective of CRSFP is to provide access to funding for the development of sustainable, functional, inclusive and fit-for-purpose active recreation and sport facilities that meet the current and future needs of the South Australian community. CRSFP will assist eligible organisations to develop infrastructure that directly addresses demonstrated need and supports participation through the rational development of good quality projects.
Grassroots Facilities Program (GFP)
The objective of GFP is to increase sport participation and improve gender equality to support healthier, happier and safer communities. GFP will assist eligible organisations to develop core infrastructure that directly impacts participation through the rational development of good quality, well designed and utilised facilities.
Regional and Districts Facilities Program (RDFP)
The objective of RDFP is to create regionally significant sport and active recreation precincts (sport and active recreation hubs) that meet the current and future needs of the South Australian community. RDFP will assist eligible organisations to develop infrastructure that is strategically justified through the rational development of good quality projects.
TOURISM
Nature-based Tourism Co-investment Fund
This program seeks to support businesses and organisations to activate sustainable and ecologically sensitive tourism experiences in SA, which will, in turn, support jobs, growth and conservation outcomes.
Max$50,000
Applications close 31 Dec 2020
Tourism Australia – Advance Program
This program aims to increase international visitation to Australia for the purposes of attending a business event, and to increase consideration of Australia as a business events destination.
Max$140,000
Events South Australia – Major Events Bidding Fund
This program aims to promote South Australia as a tourism destination and attract visitors to the State through securing, managing, developing and sponsoring leisure events and festivals, as well as leading the industry.
Max$50,000
Applications close 2 Mar 2021
Events South Australia – Live Music Events Fund
This program seeks to support live music events and festivals with the potential to grow into major tourist attractions.
VETERANS
Veteran and Community Grants (V&CG)
This program aims to maintain and improve the independence and quality of life of members of the veteran community by providing financial assistance for activities, services and projects that support activities and services that sustain and/or enhance health and well-being.
Saluting Their Service Commemorations Program – Community Commemorative Grants
This program seeks to preserve Australia’s wartime heritage and to involve people throughout the nation that highlight the service and sacrifice of Australia’s servicemen and women in wars, conflicts and peace operations, and promote appreciation and understanding of the role that those who served have played in shaping the nation.
Max$10,000
Applications close 31 Jan 2021
Overseas Privately-Constructed Memorial Restoration Program
This program aims to assist Australian veterans, Australian veteran associations and other individuals to restore and preserve existing military unit and battle memorials relating to Australian service, that they have constructed overseas.
Applications close 13 Nov 2020
LOCAL COUNCIL GRANTS
Don’t forget to make sure you are up-to-date with the opening dates for the grant schemes administered by your local council.
Adelaide Hills Council
- Local Heritage Grants up to $2500 – applications for this financial year open
- COVID-19 Community Reactivation Grants up to $1000 – applications are open and will be accepted and assessed on an ongoing basis until funds are exhausted.
- Mayoral Grant – ongoing until funding pool expended
- Individual Achievement Grants up to $200 per applicant – ongoing until funding pool expended
- Maggy Ragless Memorial Grants up to $2000 available for original research or projects which celebrate or inform the community about Mitcham's history - ongoing until funding pool expended
- Community Facilities Grant – ongoing until funding pool expended
City of Onkaparinga
City of Victor Harbor
- Local Heritage Incentives Grant Scheme - ongoing until funding pool expended
District Council of Mount Barker
District Council of Yankalilla
- Individual Grants for Youth and Students - ongoing
- Community Sponsorship program - designed to assist Island-based not-for-profit organisations by offering Full or Part sponsorship of the fees associated with hiring Council facilities and services
GENERAL LINKS
Don’t forget that you can keep tabs on upcoming grants on designated websites. The following list is not comprehensive, but is a great starting point when searching for upcoming grant opportunities.
Regional Development Australia’s Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island Grant Finder
business.gov.au – federal business grants
GrantConnect - federal grants
GRANTassist - state grants
The Grants Hub (subscription required)
SportAus – sporting grants
You can also find some helpful links on the grants information page on my website.
