Deadline: 14-May-25
The Community Matters is accepting applications for the Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS) to provide grants to non-profit organisations delivering community-based social services that contribute to achieving locally determined outcomes.
Priorities
- COGS committees prioritise community-based organisations delivering services to one or more of these priority sectors:
What they fund?
- COGS provides grants to non-profit community groups and organisations delivering community-based social services, projects and events. Grants are one-off contributions for:
- the running or operational costs of organisations that provide community-based social services
- community development costs, such as hui, training, planning, evaluation and facilitator fees
- community projects or event costs that:
- encourage participation in communities
- promote community leadership
- promote social, economic and cultural equity.
Outcomes
- Organisations requesting COGS grants need to show how their community-based services or projects will contribute to:
- encouraging participation in communities
- promoting community leadership
- developing community capability
- promoting social, economic and cultural equity, or
- reducing the downstream social and economic costs to communities and government.
Who can apply?
- Your organisation must have less than $2 million annual operating expenditure for each of the past two years to make a request to COGS.
- Your organisation includes your national or regional office and any branches under the same legal entity.
Ineligibility Criteria
- COGS do not fund:
- individuals
- fundraisers, including professional or commercial fundraisers whose purpose is to distribute money to others
- services that duplicate existing services, unless the request demonstrates there is a good reason for both services to exist
- services or activities that have already been delivered or have taken place prior to the closing date
- debt repayment or debt servicing
- reimbursement of past transactions or for completed work
- social functions, except if for cultural reasons, the event brings people together in order to achieve other significant community benefits or outcomes
- alcohol and similar substances, such as kava
For more information, visit Community Matters.
