Deadline: 13-Apr-22
The Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal is currently seeking applications for the Gardiner Community Grants Program that will fund community-driven projects that support community development and growth.
Focus
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Applicants are encouraged to present projects that focus on:
- Digital Connectivity: This could include upgrading infrastructure, improving access or supporting training and facilities that enable the community to participate and benefit from digital services, resources, and equipment or
- Building Organisational Capacity: Building capacity refers to activity that supports organisations to enhance, improve and/or grow their operations by addressing key organisational needs through a range of activities including staff resourcing and/or salaries volunteer training operational infrastructure, upgrading of equipment to improve service delivery, skill development of committees of management, and support for planning and sustainability.
- Building Community Resilience: Projects that facilitate community connectedness, develop leadership capacity within the community, improve local community infrastructure and meeting places, or support and develop volunteer community groups.
- Enhancing Environmental Sustainability: Projects that increase awareness of local environmental issues, provide opportunities for residents to care for the local environment, and projects that work to restore, protect, and promote the local natural environment, enhance community connections with farming and food production.
- Fostering Cultural Vibrancy: Projects that celebrate, preserve, and promote local culture and identity; creative projects that foster the arts and support for local artists and the arts community.
- Lifelong Education & Training: Projects that provide residents with access to opportunities that enrich their learning and skills development, from cradle to grave.
- Economic Strength: Events that attract visitors and which can demonstrate an economic benefit as a result; and projects that attract new residents to a community or region and improve economic prosperity.
- Improving Community Health & Social Wellbeing: Projects that address physical health, improved nutrition and access to fresh food, sustainable local food systems projects that enhance mental health, and those which assist vulnerable members in communities to improve their health and wellbeing.
Funding Information
- Grants up to the value of $5,000 are available to strengthen small Victorian dairy communities, helping to build their capacity to deal with local needs and enhance existing community infrastructure.
Eligibility Criteria
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To apply, you must meet the following criteria:
- Applicant organisations must be a not-for-profit organisation with either an Incorporation Certificate and/or an ABN. If you are unsure if your organisation is a registered not-for-profit (e.g. if you are a Co-operative, Other Unincorporated Entity, Public Company, or Trust),
- Projects must benefit Victorian dairy communities in Gippsland, South-West or Northern Victoria;
- Applications must demonstrate the connection to the dairy industry in the local community
- Project must be for charitable purposes and offer clear public benefit;
- Organisations with or without DGR endorsement are eligible;
- Organisations can submit one application per grant round.
For more information, visit FRRR.
For more information, visit https://frrr.org.au/funding/place/gardiner-communities-grants/