Deadline: 13-Sep-22
The Australian Ethical Foundation is seeking applications for its Visionary Grants Program to support early-stage projects that have the potential for a large impact in the fight against climate change.
The Visionary Grants program works alongside their Strategic Grants program to ensure they can support a wide array of high impact, effective and innovative climate projects and solutions.
Focus Areas
- Stopping sources of carbon
- They’re seeking initiatives in the following areas:
- Adoption of new forms of energy production (eg. renewables, storage, community energy development)
- Sustainable food systems and land use (eg. reducing food waste + miles, increasing plant-rich diets and alternative proteins, protecting natural ecosystems*)
- Waste treatment (eg. recycling, methane digesters, waste-to-energy, composting)
- Adoption of alternative and new forms of transport (eg. EV’s, bicycles, walkable cities, transport efficiencies)
- Enhancing material efficiencies and building sustainability (eg. smart buildings, reduction in HFC’s, bioplastics, water management, clean cookstoves and biogas)
- They’re seeking initiatives in the following areas:
- Supporting carbon sinks
- They’re seeking initatives in the following areas:
- Protection and restoration of land sinks and the ecosystems + biodiversity they support (inc. tropical and temperate forests, grasslands, peatlands, First Nations environmental tenure and cultural practices)
- Protection and restoration of coastal sinks, oceans and the ecosystems + biodiversity they support (inc. coastal wetlands, mangroves, salt marshes, seagrasses, plastics)
- Human engineered carbon sinks (inc. biochar, carbon capture)
- They’re seeking initatives in the following areas:
- Empowering women and girls
- They’re seeking initiatives in the following areas:
- Improving access to education (inc. affordability, overcoming health and safety barriers, making schools more girl-friendly)
- Improving access to healthcare
- Securing women’s rights to voluntary, high quality family planning (inc. sexual and reproductive health services)
- Supporting smallholder agricultural women farmers
- They’re seeking initiatives in the following areas:
- Other Areas
- Alongside funding direct projects specifically targeting the issues outlined above, they will also consider applicants using the following methods to drive broad systems change across their focus areas outlined above:
- Strategic climate and nature litigation
- Advocacy campaigns and policy engagement
- Community organising, community engagement and community empowerment
- Research projects and communication of new methodologies and technologies
- Alongside funding direct projects specifically targeting the issues outlined above, they will also consider applicants using the following methods to drive broad systems change across their focus areas outlined above:
Funding Information
- Amount: $20,000 – $100,000
- Projects can run for up to 2 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must have an ABN, an Australian bank account and be a not-for-profit organisation with relevant documentation to prove it.
- Organisations must be based in Australia, but can have their operations conducted overseas.
- They will prioritise support to early stage projects that need funding for validation or scaling.
For more information, visit https://www.australianethical.com.au/foundation/visionary-grants/application-guidelines/