Deadline: 31-May-23
The Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities is now inviting applications for its 2022/23 General Grant Program.
Focus Areas
- The Action Plan covers the following five key focus areas:
- Community Engagement: seeks to improve Territorians understanding about gender, gender diversity, and the drivers of gendered violence and gender inequality.
- Health and Wellbeing: recognises that sex and gender are powerful social determinants of health and wellbeing.
- Safety: seeks to ensure that all Territorians are safe, respected and able to live free from violence.
- Economic Security: targets gender inequality in the areas of education, employment and financial resilience and literacy across the life course.
- Leadership and Participation: seeks to ensure Territorians can influence the decisions that impact them
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $5000 are available for eligible community groups, organisations and individuals.
Who Can Apply?
- To be eligible to apply for a Gender Equity and Diversity General Grant, applicants must:
- be a resident of the Northern Territory; or
- if an organisation, be based and registered in the Northern Territory; or
- If your organisation is physically located and actively operating outside of the NT you must partner with an NT organisation; and
- demonstrate that the funds will contribute to supporting at least two actions items from the Action Plan.
Eligibility Criteria
- Projects must:
- meet the selection criteria;
- be consistent with the aims of the grants program;
- have identifiable outcomes and project objectives;
- be part of a comprehensive plan to address need(s) identified by the applying organisation/group/individual;
- not have commercially-oriented objectives; and
- be completed within the time frame proposed unless otherwise agreed.
- Applicants must:
- provide all of the information requested including a detailed itemised budget;
- include an outline of the plans for promoting the project, service or event;
- demonstrate a need for assistance;
- demonstrate an ability to manage the funds and the project effectively; and
- contribute to the project through funding or ‘in kind’ support.
For more information, visit 2022/23 General Grant Program.