Deadline: 30-Jan-23
Applications for round 2 of the Community Partnership Innovation Grants (2022-23) are now open, with up to $3 million in funds available for communities across Queensland.
One-off grants of up to $300,000 are available for local projects that support young people, who are or could become offenders, to change their behaviours and improve community connection.
The grants support new ideas and projects that target the unique issues being experienced by local communities, and that are designed in partnership with the local community.
Objectives
The objective of the grants is:
- To better understand the issues specific to a location and how communities would like to act to reduce youth offending in their area to improve community safety.
- To encourage and support Queensland communities to build on their community experience and knowledge.
- To contribute to achieving positive outcomes for young people.
Funding Information
- Round 2 of the Community Partnership Innovation Grants (2022-23) will provide up to $3 million in funds for short term or one-off local projects in communities across Queensland, with funding of up to $300,000 per project available.
- The project must commence from 31 March 2022 (you must include the date you expect the project to finish in your submission).
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can be a single organisation or individual, joint partners, or combined organisations.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Organisations and Indigenous businesses are encouraged to apply.
- Nomination of a lead organisation or agency is required for joint and combined applications. As the lead agency will be legally accountable for the activity and grant expenditure they must:
- Be an incorporated not-for-profit, registered business or legal entity; or
- Have an auspice agreement with any of the above entities.
- Lead agencies must also:
- Have a registered and current Australian Business Number (ABN) or Australian Company Number (ACN) and be registered for GST.
- Have experience delivering services in Queensland.
- Hold public liability insurance to the value of not less than $10 million, or provide evidence of plans to obtain insurance to the value of not less than $10 million to cover the proposed project
- Have no overdue reports, or service delivery or performance issues for funding previously or currently provided by the Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs.
- If your organisation is not incorporated or you do not have an active ABN, you can ask an eligible incorporated not-for-profit organisation, which has operations or already delivers services in Queensland, to auspice your project.
- If successful in receiving funding, the auspicing organisation will be required to enter into a service agreement, receive the funding and disburse this to the applicant organisation at the start of the project, and submit report/s. The auspicing organisation must have no overdue reports or performance issues related to funding previously or currently provided by the department.
For more information, visit https://www.cyjma.qld.gov.au/about-us/our-department/funding-grants-investment/community-partnership-innovation-grants