Deadline: 15-Jun-22
The Multicultural NSW is inviting applications for COMPACT Partnership Projects Grants for community-led initiatives.
The proven COMPACT Program recognises that socially cohesive communities are more resilient communities in the face of adversity and crisis. Whether they are dealing with bushfires, floods, terrorism, or a global pandemic, they know that more connected communities are more resilient to, and recover more quickly from, adversity.
COMPACT supports partnerships and collaboration between community, non-government, youth, sports, arts/media, educational and other organisations by providing grant funding for innovative, evidence-based community projects.
Successful applications will bring together partners or consortia with the demonstrated experience, expertise and capacity to engage and effect real positive change in young people (aged between 12-30), families and communities within a community resilience and conflict resolution frame.
Objectives
Funded COMPACT partnership projects will build on the strengths of their diverse society to address one or more of the following objectives:
- To inspire and empower young people to stand up and stand united against extremism, hate, fear and division as champions for community harmony.
- To support communities and build resilience to threats to community harmony in NSW arising from local and global issues.
- To build robust, sustainable networks, relationships and partnerships across communities
- To promote community understanding of the value and benefit of cultural diversity.
Youth-Led Solutions
- COMPACT looks to young people as part of the solution, not part of the problem, for social cohesion.
- COMPACT aims to inspire and empower young people to stand up and stand united against fear, hate and division as champions for Australia’s peaceful and harmonious way of life.
- COMPACT engaged an estimated 40,000 young people in its first three years, inspiring a new generation of community leaders, critical thinkers and champions for community harmony.
- COMPACT supports local solutionsbased projects that bring young people together to promote positive behaviours and engage critically, creatively and constructively on local and global issues impacting on social cohesion in New South Wales.
- COMPACT recognises that, whatever may be taking place in the complex world we live in, solutions start at home. It starts with local communities working together, supporting each other, and building on the strengths of our culturally diverse success story.
Funding Information
Eligible not-for-profit organisations are invited to apply for $50,000 to $100,000 (excl. GST) per year for projects up to two years. Projects will be delivered in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 financial years.
Methods
COMPACT partnership projects can address the project objectives listed above through one or more of the following youth engagement methods:
- Creative communicators: includes creative methods to amplify the voices of young people and tackle tough issues like hate and polarisation through art, music, writing, traditional and digital/social media, public speaking or performance.
- Networkers & influencers: includes methods to create and sustain active, effective, networks of youth leaders, allies and influencers, in both online and offline contexts, that can activate against divisive forces and promote social cohesion.
- Critical thinkers & problem solvers: includes methods to train and upskill young people to critically identify and effectively respond to threats to community harmony and resolve community conflict in online and offline contexts.
- Intergenerational interpreters: includes youth-led methods to support intergenerational communication and understanding, address issues of intergenerational trauma and conflict, build resilience at the family level, and promote the value of diversity across generations.
- Volunteers & humanitarians: includes methods to engage young people in volunteering, community service, charity and local and/or international humanitarian work with a clear benefit to local communities.
- Community connectors: includes methods of cross-cultural, cross-regional, and interfaith engagement that bring communities together and foster trust, collaboration and cohesion.
- Sports for social cohesion: includes methods to engage young people, break down barriers, reinforce positive messages, and create support networks, mentoring opportunities and positive role models.
Outcomes
At the program-level, the collective outcomes they work towards can be described as follows:
- Preparedness: Proactively build and support committed, collaborative, responsive community networks
- Prevention: Break the cycle of hate: the community champions cultural diversity and community harmony
- Response: Community networks and relationships mobilise to stand up and stand united in the face of threats to community harmony
- Recovery: Community networks and relationships mobilise to support each other and maintain or restore social cohesion in the wake of an incident or crisis
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible not-for-profit organisations that are:
- currently located in and or servicing NSW communities
- incorporated non-government organisations (not-for-profit)
- registered Associations under an Act of Parliament
- registered Cooperatives under an Act of Parliament
- Company Limited by Guarantee
- Company Limited by Shares (non-profit distributing)
- other community-based organisations registered or established under an Act that are not-for-profit
- an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth) or a Local Aboriginal Land Council under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW)
- to be eligible for funding all organisations must have a valid ABN.
For more information, visit https://multicultural.nsw.gov.au/compact-grants/