Deadline: 28-Feb-23
The NAB Foundation is currently seeking applications for Community Grants to fund local projects that help communities prepare for natural disasters, support long-term recovery, and build resilience against future disasters.
Category
- Readiness: help communities (people, environments, infrastructure) prepare for natural disasters
- Recovery: help communities, landscapes and fauna rebuild and rehabilitate after natural disasters
- Future-proofing: reduce the risk of future natural disasters by cutting a community’s carbon emissions
Prioritised Funding Areas
- Readiness
- Preparedness and resilience tools and trainings for households, communities and businesses
- Disaster response tools and equipment
- Future proofing community infrastructure
- Mental health and wellbeing programs that prepare people for natural disasters
- Future-proofing natural environments
- Future-proofing wildlife
- Recovery
- Initiatives that rebuild community cohesion after a natural disaster
- Rebuilding community infrastructure
- Community recovery planning
- Mental health and wellbeing recovery
- Rehabilitation of natural environments
- Wildlife recovery and rehabilitation
- Future-proofing
- Food co-operatives
- Urban greening
- Efficient waste recovery and recycling
- Low-carbon transport and supporting infrastructure
Funding Information
- There are two funding types:
- Community Grants of up to $10,000, from a total pool of $1 million.
- Impact grants, from a total funding pool of $200,000 for recipients of Community Grants where the project intends to have long-term social or environmental impact. This funding aims to support grantees to replicate their project in other areas, scale it or measure the impact. Applications can’t be submitted for impact grants only.
Eligibility Criteria
- NAB Foundation Community Grants are open to:
- Charities that are registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for Profits Commission (ACNC)
- Social enterprises (not-for-profit and for-profit) or start-ups with social and/or environmental impact at the core of their business
- Groups or organisations (not-for-profit and for-profit) that hold an Australian Business Number (ABN) and have a charitable purpose
- Local government or government-funded facilities (such as a school or childcare centre) seeking funding for a program that furthers charitable purpose.
- Your organisation does not need to have Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status.
- If your organisation is not a registered charity or social enterprise with the ACNC, it must have documentation that demonstrates its charitable purpose.
For more information, visit https://www.nab.com.au/about-us/social-impact/community/nab-foundation-and-grants