Deadline: 2-Dec-22
The State Trustees is offering grants through its Disadvantaged Children Grant Program to address systemic issues contributing to disadvantage for children.
The focus of the program is to foster children’s emotional wellbeing, educational attainment, and life achievement opportunities to help them grow and thrive.
Objectives
They are seeking submissions that:
- Address systemic issues impacting children’s emotional wellbeing, educational attainment, and life achievement
- Are innovative and take a systems view
- Have a focus on prevention
- Deploy integrative and collective impact approaches
- Promote cross‐sector collaboration
- Provide an evidence base to demonstrate the effectiveness of programs
- Are Victorian based
Funding Information
Grants up to $50,000 (with potential to scale up to 3-year, $250k per year partnership from FY2023/24)
Eligibility Criteria
Item 1 DGR organisations which are registered as a charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission and endorsed with charity tax concessions.
Exclusions
- Organisations that have not acquitted previous projects for any of State Trustees’ granting programs
- Applications identical to a previously submitted, unsuccessful application
- Organisations can only apply for one project per round
- General fundraising appeals
- Organisations that receive direct income from entities whose principal purpose is to promote gambling, alcohol, tobacco or armaments
- Organisations whose funded activity may seek to proselytise a particular faith or religion to its beneficiaries
- Universities and other institutions seeking funding for academic research projects or research positions with minimal or no research translation activity or no community-based partners
- Applications from Universities or Medical Research Institutes must come from the relevant Philanthropy / Fundraising office
- Retrospective funding
- It is not State Trustees’ preferred practice to fund existing positions or supplement existing staff budgets – please speak to us prior to applying if you propose to do this
- ‘For-profit’ bodies and Commercial activities
- State and Commonwealth Government bodies
- Political parties or their candidates
- Organisations based outside Victoria
- Individuals
- Personal living expenses
- Loans
For more information, visit https://www.statetrustees.com.au/philanthropy-and-charitable-giving/granting/disadvantaged-children/