Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Multicultural Community Grant Program (Australia)

Deadline: 27-Mar-23

Applications are now open for the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (DFSV) Multicultural Community Grant Program, which is designed and administered by the NSW Government.

Objectives and Outcomes

The DFSV Multicultural Community Grant aims to:

build the capability of multicultural communities in recognising and responding to domestic, family, and sexual violence
support faith and/or community-based culturally responsive initiatives that target domestic, family and sexual violence experiences of multicultural communities
align with the National Plan and State Plans to support and enhance the capability of NSW multicultural communities to recognise and respond to victim-survivors and their families thereby supporting recovery from domestic, family and sexual violence
encourage collaborative efforts and partnerships between faith and other eligible NSW organisations to support culturally appropriate responses to domestic, family and sexual violence in multicultural communities across NSW

Funding Information

Eligible applicants can apply for a one-off grant funding from $20,000 (minimum) up to $150,000 (maximum).
A total of $2,000,000 one off grant funds are available.
Funding received through this one-off grant must be expended by 30 June 2024.

Eligible Projects

Projects that can be funded include, but are not limited to:

build the capability of multicultural communities in recognising and responding to domestic, family, and sexual violence
support community-based initiatives that respond to the domestic, family and sexual violence experiences of multicultural priority target groups
align with the National Plan and State Plans to support and enhance the capability of NSW multicultural communities to recognise and respond to victim-survivors and their families thereby supporting recovery from domestic, family and sexual violence

Target Groups

Grant funding must support multicultural victim-survivors and their families who have experienced, or are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, domestic, family, and sexual violence. Grants must serve people from multicultural communities (including children, young people and older people) from one or more of the following:

newly arrived migrant communities
emerging communities
refugee or asylum seekers
on temporary visas (student, worker and spouse visas)
migrant communities
living in NSW rural, remote or regional areas
living with disability
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer or asexual (LGBTIQA+)
faith and/or community migrant groups
faith and/or community leaders/elders.

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants are required to meet all eligibility criteria below:
- Be an incorporated not-for-profit community organisation. For the purposes of this grant ’incorporated not-for-profit community organisations’ include:
  - incorporated organisations that are registered and approved as not-for-profit bodies by NSW Fair Trading
  - not-for profit companies limited by guarantee, registered in NSW
  - religious organisations operating in NSW
  - NSW non-government organisations established under their own Act of Parliament
- Be based in NSW and already operating in the state
- Identifies or is known as a multicultural organisation
  - managed and operated by community members (including women) from multicultural backgrounds and
  - connected to the multicultural community, or communities, in which they deliver the services
- Specialising in service delivery to people from multicultural communities
- Seek one-off funding to deliver activities which build the capability of multicultural communities to recognise and respond to domestic, family and sexual violence.