Deadline: 8-Aug-24
The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR) is seeking applications for the Nutrien Ag Solutions Community Grants Program.
Nutrien Ag Solutions has partnered with FRRR to invest across Australia in charitable projects that will contribute to the success and wellbeing of rural and regional communities. Their support for country Australia extends beyond the farm to the communities that support agriculture. By partnering with FRRR to provide funding for meaningful community projects, Nutrien Ag Solutions seeks to support the local grassroots organisations that are the heartbeat of rural and regional communities across Australia.
Priorities
- Grants are available to not-for-profit or incorporated organisations in remote, rural and regional Australia to deliver projects that have a charitable purpose to broadly benefit their local community and contribute to the resilience and sustainability of their community for positive long-term social and environmental outcomes.
- For example:
- Building local organisations’ operational capacity and sustainability;
- Bringing people and community organisations together to foster stronger, more resilient communities;
- Fostering and celebrating a sense of identity, diversity and cultural connection within the community;
- Supporting diverse groups within rural and regional communities including, but not limited to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse), those living with disability, and LGBTQIA+;
- Improving community health and social wellbeing;
- Enabling people to develop skills, knowledge and confidence to lead and contribute to the prosperity and renewal of their community;
- Building a sustainable volunteer base and/or supporting the wellbeing of volunteers;
- Celebrating and resourcing volunteer-led efforts;
- Increasing access and inclusion for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups;
- Enhancing places where communities gather;
- Promoting connection to place and enabling initiatives that champion a community’s social, cultural or economic aspirations;
- Reducing the divide on access to digital technology and connectivity for remote, rural and regional communities.
Funding Information
- This year, $250,000 is available to support grant requests up to the value of $5,000.
What Can be Funded?
- A broad range of charitable projects will be considered under this program: Examples of projects up to $5,000 that have received funding through FRRR include:
- Building community resilience through upgrading kitchen and disability access;
- Improving health and welfare of women through the delivery of a women’s workshop during Women’s Health Week;
- Increasing organisational capacity to support community events with the purchase of marquees for the local show society;
- Growing community volunteerism with human resources support for local not-for-profit organisations;
- Purchasing a laptop computer with software for the recording of documents, photos and artefacts for a local museum and heritage group;
- Enhancing tourism and strengthening community connection through the delivery of a community-based street art beautification project.
What Can’t be Funded?
- There are several areas that they cannot fund through this program.
- Projects that support core business or areas of responsibility of Federal, State and Local Governments;
- Ongoing core organisational operational costs (e.g. rent, utilities, regular wages, loan repayments);
- The encouragement or advancement of sport, recreation and social activities are not considered charitable activities under Australian law. Applications from sporting organisations need to clearly demonstrate charitable outcomes and benefit to the wider community that are above and beyond the sporting activities of the club;
- Overseas travel and overseas projects;
- Prizes, gifts, trophies or awards;
- Political lobbying;
- Projects that primarily benefit private business, a sole trader, or private interests;
- Projects solely focused on animal welfare
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply, you must meet the following criteria:
- Applicant organisations must not have received a grant through Round 3 of the Nutrien Ag Solution Community Grants Program in 2023;
- Applicant organisations must be a not-for-profit organisation with an ABN or an Incorporation Certificate. If you are unsure if your organisation is a registered not-for-profit (for example, if you are a Co-operative, Other Unincorporated Entity, Public Company or Trust), please contact FRRR;
- Project must be for charitable purposes and offer clear public benefit;
- Organisations with or without DGR-1 endorsement are eligible;
- Organisations can submit one application per grant round;
- Projects must benefit communities in remote, rural or regional Australia.
Ineligible
- You will be considered ineligible if the:
- Application is received without an email endorsing your project from a Nutrien Ag Solutions Branch Manager;
- Application is submitted by individuals, sole traders, private or commercial businesses (as per the submitted ABN);
- Application is submitted by an organisation that is a non-legal entity and the nominated legal governing/partnering organisation has not provided written confirmation of their willingness to assume responsibility for management of the funds and acquittal of;
- Application is submitted without required organisational financial information and quotes or rational for budget items over $1,000;
- Overdue final report/s from any FRRR grants awarded in the previous seven years have not been acquitted (delivery organisations should check with legal organisation to see if there are any outstanding final reports);
- Application is for a project or activity that has already occurred/is occurring prior to the announcement of funding;
- Application is incomplete.
- Note: Due to the volume of applications received, applications are assessed based on the documentation received at the time of application. FRRR is unlikely to follow up missing documentation after applications have been submitted.
For more information, visit FRRR.