Deadline: 12-Oct-21
The Government of Western Australia is pleased to launch the 2021-22 Grants for Women Program to support community initiatives that will assist women during the recovery phase of this pandemic.
The Grants for Women Program provides funding support for initiatives based in Western Australian that address the unique issues faced by women.
Priority Areas
- Safety and justice: Goal – Women live safely and have appropriate access to adequate legal protections. Women continue to experience unacceptable levels of family and domestic violence and abuse in their own homes, at the hands of their partners. There are substantial costs to the community in relation to family and domestic violence, but it is disproportionately women who bear the social and financial costs. Some of these costs include:
- increased risk of poverty and homelessness; and
- contribution to negative health outcomes.
- Economic independence: Goal – Women can be financially independent throughout all life stages. A range of social and cultural factors contribute to many women having a more precarious financial situation than their male counterparts. This can mean that women’s cumulative earning power is severely compromised throughout their working lives. The gender pay gap in Western Australia is the highest of all states and territories in Australia and has been for many years. Contributing factors include:
- time taken out from work to care for children;
- broader caring responsibilities for ageing parents and relatives; and
- the gender pay gap and its effects on superannuation.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $5,000 are available for one-off initiatives with a duration of up to six months that contribute to the program’s priority areas.
- Grants of up to $10,000 are available for longer term (six to twelve months), strategic initiatives involving a range of partners that will contribute to creating sustainable or systemic change in the program’s priority areas.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible organisations must be:
- an incorporated, not-for-profit, community sector organisation
- a Western Australian local government authority
- an unincorporated organisation or community group, applying through the auspice of an incorporated body or a local government authority
- A group or organisation is not-for-profit if its governing documents prohibit distribution of profits to individual members while the organisation is operating and upon its wind-up.
For more information, visit https://dlgc.communities.wa.gov.au/GrantsFunding/Pages/Grants-for-Women.aspx