Deadline: 17-Mar-22
ANZ Community Foundation Grant Program is now open to supports small to medium-sized projects run by charitable organisations that offer a direct and tangible benefit to local communities.
Where structured volunteering by ANZ staff members would add value to the funded project, ANZ is keen to facilitate this type of in-kind support.
Priority Areas
ANZ’s purpose is to shape a world where people and communities thrive. In support of this, the ANZ Community Foundation provides grants to community projects that relate to one of the following priority areas:
- Improving financial wellbeing, particularly for under-represented and disadvantaged people in the community, including initiatives that improve economic participation for example through building financial literacy and developing vocational skills and providing access to meaningful work
- Improving environmental sustainability through initiatives that restore and conserve the natural environment or which contribute to water stewardship, lower carbon emissions’, and waste minimisation
- Improving housing access through initiatives and programs that support those experiencing or at risk of homelessness or that provide supports for people living with a disability
- Other community projects that assist local communities to thrive.
Funding Information
ANZ Community Foundation provides grants of up to $30,000.
Please Note
- Pending application quality and jurisdictional spread, all four priority areas have the same notional allocation in any given grant round. Incorrect categorisation will not enhance an application’s chance of success and may result in disqualification.
- Accurate categorisation will be evident if the primary objective and measurable outcomes of the project are aligned with the chosen priority category.
- A community initiative established to accept and distribute used goods to support vulnerable or disadvantaged people is considered an “other community project”. This project is not an environmental sustainability project as the core mission, objectives and quantifiable outcomes do not focus on waste minimisation.
- Initiatives that distribute goods only with limited engagement to build financial capability belong in the Other category.
Eligibility Criteria
What types of organisations can apply for grants? Organisations must be charitable, and have Deductible Gift Recipient (OCR) Item 1 status in order to apply for an ANZ Community Foundation grant.
Ineligible Criteria
The following applicants are not eligible:
- Individual applicants
- Political organisations
- Religious or sectarian organisations involved in purely religious/sectarian activities
- Foundations that are themselves grant-making bodies
- Bequest programs
- Schools
- Hospitals, medical centres or medical research institutes
For more information, visit https://www.eqt.com.au/philanthropy/grant-funding/folder-other-grants/anz-community-foundation