Deadline: 16-Mar-23
The Gardiner Dairy Foundation is currently seeking applications for its Community Grants Program to build their capacity to deal with local needs, and enhance existing community infrastructure.
Gardiner Dairy Foundation is committed to strengthening Victorian dairy communities, and is partnering with FRRR to provide $120,000 in funding for innovative, community-driven projects.
Objectives
- Projects must measure against one or more of the following outcomes:
- Stronger community resilience
- Greater community participation and engagement
- More friendly and inclusive community
- Build a creative / culturally vibrant community
- Innovate or respond to local opportunities
- Give children the best start in life
- Strengthen the ability to respond to community / individual challenges
- (Re)build community identity and sense of pride
- Strengthen the local economy
- Increase engagement in learning and strengthen educational outcomes
- Promote environmental health / sustainability
Is this grant available in my area?
- This program is open to not-for-profit community-based organisations from communities in a recognised Victorian dairy region – either Gippsland, South-Western or Northern Victoria.
Funding Information
- The Gardiner Dairy Foundation Community Grants Program will make available $120,000 in grant funds for innovative, community-driven projects up to the value of $5,000.
What can be funded?
- Grants of up to $5,000 are available to not-for-profit organisations in a recognised Victorian dairy region – either Gippsland, South-Western or Northern Victoria – to support projects that focus on one of the following activity areas:
- Building Community Resilience (for example, 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 (for example, projects that increase awareness of local environmental issues, provide opportunities for local residents to care for the local environment, and projects that work to restore, protect and promote the local natural environment).
- Fostering Cultural Vibrancy (for example, 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 (for example, projects that provide local residents with access to opportunities that enrich their learning and skills development, from cradle to grave).
- Economic Strength (for example, projects that create local employment and training with an employment outcome, stimulate new spending within a community or region, 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 (for example, projects which address physical health, improved nutrition and access to fresh food and sustainable local food systems, projects that enhance mental health, and those which assist vulnerable members in communities to improve their health and wellbeing).
What can’t be funded?
- There are several areas that they can’t fund through this program.
- Individuals, private or commercial businesses are ineligible;
- Projects that support core business and areas of responsibility of Federal, State and Local Governments are ineligible.
- Ongoing core organisational operational costs (e.g. rent, utilities, regular wages, loan repayments);
- The encouragement or advancement of sport, recreation and social activities are not considered charitable activities under Australian law. Applications from sporting organisations need to clearly demonstrate charitable outcomes and benefit to the wider community that and beyond the sporting activities of the club;
- Overseas travel and overseas projects;
- Prizes, gifts, trophies or awards;
- Projects that have already occurred or will occur before the grant is confirmed;
- Political lobbying;
- Projects solely focused on animal welfare cannot be considered;
Eligibility Criteria
- Not-for-profit community-based organisations from communities in a recognised Victorian dairy region – either Gippsland, South-Western or Northern Victoria – can apply for funds to support projects and activities that offer clear public benefit.
- 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 (for example, if you are a Co-operative, Other Unincorporated Entity, Public Company or Trust),
- Not-for-profit organisations with or without DGR-1 endorsement are eligible.
- Organisations and/or projects demonstrating community partnerships are preferred to multiple applications from one community
- Projects should be undertaken between July 2023 and June 2024, as projects cannot be funded retrospectively.
NOTE: Previous FRRR grant recipients who have not completed final reporting requirements are ineligible.
Who can’t apply?
- Individuals, private or commercial businesses are ineligible;
- Projects that support core business and areas of responsibility of Federal, State and Local Governments are ineligible.
For more information, visit Gardiner Dairy Foundation.
