Australia: Building Employer Confidence and Inclusion in Disability Grant

Deadline: 23-Feb-22

The Australian Government is inviting organisations via an open competitive grant process to apply to deliver services under the Information, Linkages and Capacity Building Program’s Building Employer Confidence and Inclusion in Disability Grant.

To support people with disability to gain employment and improve their overall wellbeing, the aim of this grant opportunity is to:

build the confidence and ability of employers to hire, support and retain employees with disability
create inclusive workplaces by breaking down attitudinal barriers about people with disability.

Objectives

The objectives of this grant opportunity are:

organisations, including Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs), have increased employment and retention of staff with disability
organisations, including SMEs, are inclusive of, and accessible to, people with disability in all that they do and people with disability report they feel valued and supported within the workplace
industries have resources, training and mentoring programs that are actively promoted and result in increased awareness, recruitment or retention of people with disability at work.

Activity Focus Cohorts

The activity focus for grant recipients are:

employers who have expressed an interest in employing, or employing more people with disability but need support to get started
employers in one (or more) of the growth industries who have, or are expected to have significant workforce demands and/or known vacancies that could be filled by people with disability.

Funding Information

Funding available for this grant opportunity is up to $20 million (GST exclusive) over 2 years in 2021–22 and 2022-23.
- Minimum grant amount is $415,000 (GST exclusive).
- Maximum grant amount is $815,000 (GST exclusive).
A proportion of the funding available in this grant opportunity will be attributed to program evaluation. The minimum and maximum grant amounts above are inclusive of an additional $15,000 (GST exclusive) to be paid to successful applicants to cover resource costs related to the requirement to participate in a program evaluation.