Community Sustainability Action Grants – Round 4: Threatened Species Recovery and Resilience (Australia)

Deadline: 07-Jul-20

The Queensland Government is currently seeking applications for the Community Sustainability Action grants Round 4: Threatened Species Recovery and Resilience.

Objectives

This grants program provides funding for community-based on-ground activities that protect, and benefit Queensland’s threatened flora and fauna species negatively impacted by bushfires and drought (in 2019–2020) and projects to build resilience to climate change.
Funding will only be provided for those species classified as threatened in either the Commonwealth Government’s Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) or in the Queensland Government’s Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA). Applicants will need to demonstrate that project activities are supported by a recovery plan and/or team member, conservation advice or written advice from the department’s Threatened Species Operations unit (fauna) or Queensland Herbarium (flora).
Prior to submitting an application for grant funding applicants are encouraged to contact the department’s Threatened Species Operations unit to discuss their proposed activities.

Funding Information

Applicants may seek funding for grants up to $100,000 (excluding GST).

Timeframe

Projects must be completed within three years from execution of the grant deed.

Eligibility Criteria

The following are eligible to apply for a grant in their own right:

Properly established incorporated associations (incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 1981).
Australian charities registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC).
Not-for-profit organisations registered under the Corporations Act 2001.
Indigenous corporations incorporated under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cwlth).
Tertiary education institutions administered by the Commonwealth or State.
Natural Resource Management (NRM) bodies.

Project Sponsor Eligibility

Ineligible applicants can apply for a grant through a project sponsor.
Project sponsors must be one of the following organisations:
- An organisation eligible to apply for funding in their own right
- Schools (government and non-government schools)
- A local government authority
- Natural Resource Management (NRM) bodies.
Project sponsors must take full responsibility for the legal and financial accountability of the project, including signing the grant deed and/or any declarations and are required to approve all project related reporting. They are required to provide evidence of insurance for the lifetime of the grant period.
A letter from the project sponsor signed by an accountable officer must be included with the application which specifies that the organisation is willing to be the sponsor for the duration of the project.
Project sponsors are not able to financially benefit from the grant funding, for example, by seeking project management fees.

Ineligible Applicants

The following applicants are ineligible to apply for funding: