Deadline: 22 May 2020
The Australian Ethical Foundation has announced the Community Grants 2020 to support grassroots organisations who contribute to humanitarian, environmental and animal welfare efforts in Australia and abroad.
Focus Areas
Australian Ethical encourages applications from Australian-based organisations that focus on work in Australia or overseas in one or more of the following areas:
- Planet: Protecting the environment
- Australian Ethical encourages applications from organisations that aim to protect and enhance the natural environment by undertaking initiatives related to the following charitable purposes.
- Each project must demonstrate how it meets one or more of the following outcomes:
- Increased innovation in development of solutions, access and/or education of communities around clean energy, energy efficiency, water/food efficiency, carbon drawdown and conservation of natural resources
- Minimisation of waste and more efficient and widespread recycling
- Increased protection of biodiversity, including flora and fauna
- Increased appreciation of cultural heritage and/or application of environmental management practices
- Reduced environmental damage including protecting, preserving, rehabilitating, and/or educating the community about the natural environment
- Public policy changes and advocacy initiatives to better protect and support the environment
- People: Improving lives
- They encourage applications from organisations that focus on people who are experiencing extreme levels of distress, disadvantage, vulnerability, or poverty within their community or family. Initiatives led by people experiencing vulnerability themselves are especially welcome.
- Each project must demonstrate how it meets one or more of the following outcomes:
- People recover, cope and thrive in the face of severe personal, family, and social adversity
- People progress into education, employment, enterprise and training opportunities to develop core life skills and increase their chances of having a stable source of income and secure future
- People have greater access to healthcare and essential services
- People have greater protection from violence, exploitation and abuse
- People of different ethnic backgrounds, faiths and other societal groups (e.g. Aboriginal and Torres Islander Peoples, LGBTIQ+ communities) are empowered in Australian society
- Public policy changes and advocacy initiatives to better protect and support vulnerable groups.
- Increased innovation in development of solutions, access and/or education of communities around clean energy, energy efficiency, water/food efficiency, carbon drawdown and conservation of natural resources
- Minimisation of waste and more efficient and widespread recycling
- Increased protection of biodiversity, including flora and fauna
- Increased appreciation of cultural heritage and/or application of environmental management practices
- Reduced environmental damage including protecting, preserving, rehabilitating, and/or educating the community about the natural environment
- Public policy changes and advocacy initiatives to better protect and support the environment
- Animals: Protecting and supporting animals
- They encourage applications from organisations that aim to improve animal welfare, rescue injured animals and protect threatened and endangered species and their habitat.
- Each project must demonstrate how it meets one or more of the following outcomes:
- Improved animal well-being and initiatives that reduce and/or remove animal suffering
- Improved animal management practices and educational programs
- Development of alternative solutions and income for local communities within threatened and endangered species’ habitat
- Greater sustainability of populations of threatened and endangered species
- Initiatives that promote greater usage of plant-based solutions in replacement of animal products
- Public policy changes and advocacy initiatives to better protect and support animals.
Funding Information
Australian Ethical grants are for $10,000 and $20,000 (but they also provide funding amounts for projects within this range, for example $15,000). Preference is for the grant money to be spent within one year of receipt. In the application form please select the amount closest to what you require. For example, if you require $15,000, please request $20,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Australian Ethical offers grants to not-for-profit organisations, social enterprises and registered charities based in Australia. Organisations working for a charitable purpose for the benefit of people, the planet and/or animals in Australia, or internationally, are encouraged to apply.
- Only organisations with operating revenue less than $1.5 million dollars will be eligible to apply in 2020.
- New, emerging or small not-for-profit groups are eligible to apply as long as they have:
- an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- documentation that supports their not-for-profit status and
- an Australian bank account.
For more information, visit https://www.australianethical.com.au/about/foundation/community-grants/