Deadline: 25-Jan-22
The Ian Potter Foundation is seeking applications for Healthy – Medical Research Grant Program to support the provision of equipment and capital infrastructure to support outstanding medical research groups.
Objectives
- The Healthy Australia pillar supports organisations that strive to provide innovative solutions to improve the health of all Australians. The Medical Research stream aims to advance understanding and improve treatment of major diseases by supporting major initiatives by leading Australian research institutes, universities and teaching hospitals in innovative biomedical research.
- In the Medical Research stream the Foundation will consider applications: To support the provision of equipment and capital infrastructure to support outstanding research groups.
- The Foundation also supports the Cynthia Banham Burns Fellowship to enable clinical research by an early-career researcher under the guidance of renowned burns specialist, Dr Fiona Wood at Royal Perth Hospital.
Pillars
- Fair – Community Wellbeing and Early Childhood Development
- Healthy – Medical Research equipment and Public Health Research Projects
- Sustainable – Environment
- Vibrant – Arts and Culture
Principles
Grantmaking across all program areas is underpinned by the following funding principles:
- Excellence: They support organisations, programs and individuals who are outstanding in their field.
- Prevention: To maximise the value of the grants, they try to identify and support projects that address the causes of any problems rather than treat the symptoms. Supporting research is fundamental to this approach.
- Innovation: They seek to fund organisations, programs and projects that take a new approach to solving problems, especially those that can be evaluated and have potential for expansion and further development.
- Leverage: Their grants have greater impact when combined with support from volunteers and other sources such as other trusts and foundations, government, and business. They are happy to be one of a number of supporters of a program. They encourage grantees to have collaborations and partnerships that facilitate combining knowledge and resources to achieve a shared goal.
- Long-term thinking: They try to fund projects that will continue to have an impact well beyond the period of their grant. The long term sustainability of the project is an important consideration.
- Social leaders: They aim to cultivate leadership in the Australian social sector that is highly skilled, well prepared and best placed to fulfil an organisation’s mission.
Funding Information
In general, the recommended minimum grant amount for institutions and organisations is $100,000 in this program area.
Eligibility Criteria
- Under the terms of the deed of The Ian Potter Foundation and Australian taxation laws, The Ian Potter Foundation can only make grants to organisations with BOTH Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Item 1 and Tax Concession Charity (TCC) status.
- Please make sure you read the funding objectives and specific exclusions for the Medical Research program area before you apply for a grant.
Guidelines
- You must speak with the Program Manager before submitting an application to be considered eligible to apply.
- The Foundation prioritises applications with evidence of collaboration. Please ensure that you have alternative providers of funding and that your application clearly considers any possible grant from the Foundation in this context. They are unlikely to fund 100% of a project cost.
- Applications must be accompanied by a letter from the requesting organisation’s Chief Executive Officer or equivalent person (e.g. Director of Institute, University Vice-Chancellor or Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research) attesting to the value of each application to the organisation.
- In the case of multiple applications in one or more categories, advice must also be provided as to the priority ranking of all such applications.
- A maximum of two applications may be submitted by an organisation in a given grant round.
For more information, visit https://www.ianpotter.org.au/funding-rounds/