Deadline: 17-Feb-23
The Foundation for Young Australians is seeking applications for Seeding Strengths Grants.
Types of Grants
- Two types of grants are available:
- Rapid response: First Nations young people (aged 16-35 years) can apply for rapid response grants of $2,000 to $20,000 for urgent campaigns/movements/initiatives relating to social change in response to systematic oppression & specific injustices of First Nations young people.
- Campaign, movement or project based: First Nations young people (aged 16-35 years) can apply for grants (from $2,000 to $50,000) to support core funding for existing or new campaigns, movements and projects in their four impact areas:
- Truthtelling and storytelling
- Decolonising, dismantling and re-Indigenising
- Building and strengthening movements, campaigns and global
- solidarity
- Facilitating vision creation.
When does the money have to be spent?
- Rapid response: The money has to be spent within 3 months of receiving the funds.
- Campaign, movement or project based: The money can be spent over 1-2 years, let us know about this in your budget break down.
Funding Information
- A total of $200,000 in funding will be distributed in 2023.
- Rapid response: Grants of $2,000 to $10,000.
- Campaign, movement or project based: Grants (from $2,000 to $50,000).
Why they’re launching Seeding Strength
- Their vision is that First Nations young people’s voices and truth are heard and respected on the change they want to see. They are strong in spirit, stories, connected to community, land, language and culture. First Nations young people are self-determined, sovereign caretakers of country. They are living free from racism, discrimination, domination and injustices. The future is Blak and strong, and country is healing.
- One of the powerful ways that FYA can support young First Nations people and their communities to create change is by shifting resources. First Nations young people and their campaigns, movements and projects need financial backing to win. They have a role in fundraising, shifting resources through grant-making, monitoring and evaluation, and increasing philanthropic connections.
- The young mob that they’ll be funding, they will provide support to in terms of ensuring that they have the governance and systems in place to use the funds for maximum impact. They ’ll also work with them to embed and increase monitoring and evaluation skills to build the evidence base of this work, with the aim of securing ongoing sustainable funding for long term change.
Eligibility Criteria
- Seeding Strength Grants are open to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander young people and organisations led by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander young people aged 16-35.
- They will prioritise applications from grassroots and not-for-profit campaigns, projects, organisations and movements.
Selection Criteria
- Grant recipients will be selected by a panel of three First Nations people from their First Nations Governance Group. These are all young mob aged under 35 years. You can read more about their First Nations Governance Group here.
- They will give priority to fund grassroots and not-for-profit campaigns, projects, organisations and movements.
- They will also aim to fund a diverse mix (age, ability, gender, mobs) of people and projects recognising that there are multiple layers of discrimination and injustice for intersectional mob.
For more information, visit Seeding Strengths Grants.
