Deadline: 31-Oct-22
Calls for charities to apply as latest Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation grant round opens.
Calling all not-for-profit and community groups delivering important projects and initiatives that assist those most in need in the communities.
Focus Areas
- The Charitable Foundation will consider applications from eligible charitable and not-for-profit organisations for important projects, initiatives and programs that address one or more of the following key focus areas:
- Projects that provide improved health outcomes for the most disadvantaged, isolated, and vulnerable in their community
- Projects that deliver improved life outcomes for marginalised and at-risk young people in their community
- Projects that enhance improved social wellbeing for the most disadvantaged or marginalised in their community.
Funding Information
- The Charitable Foundation currently has over $700,000 on offer to support new or existing community-based projects concerned with the key focus areas of health, young people and social wellbeing.
Funding Principles
- Grants are underpinned by the following principles:
- Have goals which are in synergy with the key focus areas of the Foundation
- Take a new approach to solving problems and have potential for expansion and/or replication
- Provide evidence of effective project management and outcome evaluation
- Are sustainable over the long term and/or deliver an enduring community benefit beyond the funding period
- Directly benefit those most in need in their community
- Do not have the ability to attract significant government, public or corporate support.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for funding you must be:
- Endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office as a Type 1 Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR)
- Endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office as a Tax Concession Charity (TCC)
- Registered with the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profit Commission
- A not-for-profit organisation which is charitable at law
- A legal entity such as an incorporated association or corporation.
Ineligible
- The following requests are not eligible for grant funding:
- General sponsorship and fundraising activities
- Events or commercial activities
- Small contributions to large appeals or large capital projects
- Projects of a political or religious nature
- One-off activities, festivals or events
- Contributions to work that would normally be considered the responsibility of local authorities or government departments
- Requests for recurrent or ongoing wages or personnel costs (non-recurrent personnel costs directly related to project delivery may be accepted)
- Recurrent operational costs such as rent and utilities
- Requests to support individuals
- Organisations which have not met their obligations and responsibilities under previous funding agreements
- Expeditions or travel outside the Charitable Foundation footprint or overseas
- Unsolicited applications for emergency relief and material aid
- Study or attendance at conferences or seminars
- Projects and programs based outside the Hunter, Central Coast, Mid North Coast, Northern Rivers, Central West and New England
- Endowments, memorials, bursaries or named academic chairs.
For more information, visit https://www.newcastlepermanent.com.au/charitable-foundation/news/2022/charitable-foundation-grant-round-opens
