Deadline: 30-Jun-25
Aboriginal Investment NT’s Community Quick Response Grants are quick-turnaround grants for one-off projects in urban, regional and remote Aboriginal communities and homelands in the NT.
Objective
- The objective of Community Quick Response Grants is to support projects that:
- Strengthen Aboriginal connections to Country.
- Strengthen Aboriginal cultural practice, maintenance and preservation (including traditional language and passing on traditional knowledge).
- Increase or improve Aboriginal participation in sporting, recreational, artistic, musical, cultural, educational, or social and emotional wellbeing activities.
- Increase Aboriginal social and cultural connection, celebration and wellbeing
Funding Information
- $1.5 million in grant funding is available each financial year to support Aboriginal Investment NT’s Community Quick Response Grants.
- You can apply for up to $10,000, with a minimum of $1000 (GST exclusive).
What can be funded?
- Be a stand-alone, one-off community or cultural event or purchase of goods or services.
- Provide a direct benefit to Aboriginal community members that aligns with at least one of the specific objectives of Community Quick Response Grants.
- Be delivered within NT borders.
- Be scheduled to take place within three weeks and three months from the date of application.
- Be seeking grant funding for non-ongoing costs required to complete the project, such as venue hire, transport, catering, materials, or small community infrastructure (e.g. park bench, playground equipment, sports score board, etc).
What can’t be funded?
- Projects that have an ongoing or multi-staged component (e.g. program funding, milestone payments, recurrent costs, repeat purchases).
- Projects requiring co-contributed funding.
- Projects that only benefit an individual.
- Ongoing costs.
- Staff wages, project management, business or administration costs.
- Commercial or for-profit services.
- Infrastructure and fixtures.
- Vehicles.
Eligibility Criteria
- You must be a Traditional Owner organisation or Aboriginal community-controlled organisation that meets all of the following:
- Incorporated under relevant legislation.
- Not-for-profit.
- Based in the NT, unless you are a cross-border Australian entity with operations and cultural links to the NT (by exception only).
- Connected to the NT community, or communities, whose members will benefit from the grant funding.
- Governed by a majority-Aboriginal governing body, where at least 51% of the governing body is made up of Aboriginal persons.
- Controlled by Aboriginal people and operated for the benefit of Aboriginal people.
- Not have received a Community Quick Response Grant in the 12 months before making an application.
- Exceptions may apply if you are an umbrella organisation that services multiple communities.
For more information, visit Aboriginal Investment NT.