Deadline: 11-Feb-22
The Crime Prevention Innovation Fund is part of the government’s Building Safer Communities Program and offers grants of between $25,000 and $300,000 for partnership projects that deliver and evaluate innovative community safety and crime prevention initiatives.
Aims
Through the Crime Prevention Innovation Fund and the broader Building Safer Communities program the government aims to:
- Support local communities to deliver innovative crime and community safety solutions in local areas.
- Promote the development and delivery of collaborative, partnership approaches to crime prevention as part of a strategic approach to local community safety.
- Build community capability through knowledge sharing and strengthened relationships.
Objectives
The Crime Prevention Innovation Fund will support projects that:
- test new approaches to addressing crime and community safety issues that focus on prevention or early intervention that are evidence based and reflect promising practice
- actively build capability within the community to understand and address crime and community safety issues
- contribute to the evidence base of effective crime prevention practice.
Funding Information
$25,000 to $300,000 per project over two years.
What can be funded?
- Funding is available for a range of innovative projects that address the objectives.
- This includes but is not limited to:
- demonstration projects to test and evaluate new approaches to preventing crime that consider how benefits may be sustained beyond the funding period
- the development of practical tools and resources to improve the understanding and/or management of crime and community safety related issues
- initiatives that work with and engage diverse communities or groups (such as cultural or religious groups, women, young people or members of the LGBTQI community) to identify, test and document practical strategies that build resilience and improve safety and perceptions of safety
- initiatives that establish or strengthen partnerships across community, business, sport, government services and other sectors to address the causes of offending and crime and build community cohesion and safety.
Eligibility Criteria
Victorian councils and not-for-profit organisations that are a legal entity are eligible to apply. Research bodies and commercial entities (such as consultancies, universities or social enterprises) can also apply but must partner with a council or community organisation on their application.
For more information, visit https://www.crimeprevention.vic.gov.au/crimepreventioninnovationfund