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.
- Be an incorporated not-for-profit community organisation. For the purposes of this grant ’incorporated not-for-profit community organisations’ include:
Ineligible
The following organisations are not eligible to apply for funding under this grant program:
- Individuals and sole traders
- Local Councils
- State and Federal Government Departments and associated entities
- For profit organisations and commercial enterprises
For more information, visit NSW Government.