Deadline: 12-Sep-22
The City of Ballarat is pleased to announce the Community Impact Grant Program (CIGP) to build community capacity and strengthens links between community members and groups by funding programs that advance priority areas for both the City of Ballarat and the community.
Funding Information
The Community Impact Grant Program has opportunities of funding up to $20,000.
Eligible Activities
- Projects funded by the City of Ballarat must provide community benefit. Funding is available for projects that result in the advancement of at least two of the following priority areas:
- Environmental sustainability: Projects that promote environmental sustainability such as the implementation of recycling, reusing and repurposing projects, sustainable gardening programs, and energy and water efficiency programs.
- Healthy, connected and inclusive communities: Projects that encourage community participation, address health priorities, and promote social connectedness. Projects that bring different groups together to achieve joint outcomes. Projects that improve opportunities for inclusion for groups who can sometimes be excluded due to gender, age, cultural background, sexual orientation, financial vulnerability, or disability.
- Community capacity building: Projects that are innovative, collaborative and promote skill and knowledgable development and sharing.
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Projects and activities must also:
- Be based in the Ballarat municipality and cater primarily to Ballarat residents
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Projects will be given higher priority for selection if they:
- Outline how they will be accessible by people within your target group regardless of gender, age, cultural background, financial status, or ability
- Use local suppliers for the project delivery
Eligibility Criteria
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To be eligible to apply for the CIGP, you must be one of the following :
- Local, not-for-profit incorporated organization, group, or association
- Non-incorporated group that is auspiced' by an incorporated group
- Applicant fr om outside of Ballarat that is working with a local partner organization -this must be demonstrated with a letter of support outlining the partnership's natur.
Ineligible
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The following are ineligible apply for the CIGP:
- Schools (unless they are a partner to a project with a local community organization and can demonstrate broad community benefit)
- Individuals, sole traders, family trusts, public trading trusts
- Government agencies
- For-profit organizations
- Not-for-profit organisations, groups, and associations from areas other than the Ballarat municipality (unless they can demonstrate they are delivering the project with a local partner)
- Organizations, groups, and associations that have not yet finalized previous grant reporting requirements
- Any group already receiving other City of Ballarat financial support where that funding agree ment states that they must not receive any further funding from other City of Ballarat areas
Conditions
- Requests over $10,000 must have a matched cash contribution at a ratio of 2:1 from the applicant organization (eg request for funding of $15,000 matched by $7,500 cash from organization)
- For allocations over $10,000, half of the grant allocation will be paid on receipt of a signed funding agreement with the remaining half paid on receipt of a satisfactory acquittal report
- For requests over $10,000, applicants will be required to provide additional information (for example project/event plans, risk management plans)
- For requests under $2,000, applicants can complete the Small Grant Application Form which requires fewer details
- If your organization is registered for GST, the funding allocation will be less the GST component as per quotes supplied
- Multiple applications from organizations will be accepted, however the total amount funded in any finance year shall not exceed $20,000. An organization supporting as an auspice shall not be disadvantaged, the allocation amount affects the applicant organization only.
For more information, visit City of Ballarat.
For more information, visit https://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/communitygrants