Deadline: 26-May-23
The Paul Ramsay Foundation (PRF) is now partnering with the Australian Communities Foundation to deliver a Just Futures: National Open Grant Round.
Some of PRF’s current priorities include increasing diversionary measures to provide alternatives to sentencing and custody, and supporting post-release needs through holistic throughcare models.
Paul Ramsay Foundation’s (PRF) purpose is to help end cycles of disadvantage by enabling equitable opportunity for people and communities to thrive. Their approach is to invest in and partner with organisations across Australia with a direct connection to the people and communities they work alongside.
This funding is for small-scale and/or early-stage programs supporting people and communities as follows:
- Who:
- Young people;
- or parents who are or have been in custody and their children;
- or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.
- What:
- Preventing or reducing further contact with the justice system;
- or preventing intergenerational incarceration.
- How:
- Community-led prevention;
- or alternatives to custody;
- or post-release support (e.g., opportunities and supports in connecting with Country/Culture, education, employment, housing).
Types of Grants
- Medium Grant
- Large Grant.
Priorities
- Organisations that meet one or more of the priorities will be assessed favourably. You are not expected to meet all of the priorities. The priorities will be applied with equal weighting.
- Supports growth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, communities, and organisations in the sector
- Delivers program(s) to prevent or reduce further contact with the justice system, which may include elements such as:
- Alcohol and other drug counselling;
- Connecting with Country/Culture;
- Education opportunities;
- Employment and/or job training opportunities;
- Housing.
- Primarily delivers program(s) in disadvantaged locations (<1000 SEIFA’s Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage)
- Operate program(s) that have been informed by evaluations, expert guidance or research
- Delivers program(s) led or informed by people with lived experience of incarceration
- Has identified opportunities for organisational OR program capacity uplift
- Has capacity and desire to share insights with peers and PRF on a yearly basis
Funding Information
- Australian organisations can submit an expression of interest (EOI) for a Medium Grant (up to $500,000) or Large Grant (up to $1,000,000) for a period of up to five years.
Use of Funds
- If successful in your application, you will receive the grant in approximately August.
- Funding can be used for:
- Staff salaries and support
- Operational expenses (e.g., program delivery costs and overheads, communications)
- Essential and relevant capital expenditure (e.g., infrastructure, transport costs)
- Measurement and evaluation of eligible program(s) (including data capture)
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organisation MUST meet ALL the requirements to be eligible for funding.
- be an entity with a social impact mission OR relevant charitable purposes
- be based in, and work with a community or communities located in, Australia
- if your program participants are a majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander-led organisation OR program
- NOT be an organisation OR program that is solely focused on policy, law reform or advocacy
- NOT currently receiving funding from PRF
- NOT be a for-profit business or for-profit social enterprise
- Your program MUST meet ALL the requirements to be eligible for funding.
- operate program(s) for participants who are majority: young people, OR parents who are or have been in custody and their children, OR Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities
- operate program(s) for any of the cohorts with target benefit of: preventing or reducing further contact with the justice system, OR preventing intergenerational incarceration
- deliver the target benefits through: community-led prevention, OR alternatives to custody, OR post-release support program(s)
- be a small-scale and/or early-stage program (<20 FTE or <$1m in annual funding)
- NOT be university-run or research program.
Ineligible
- Funding cannot be used for:
- Private benefit
- Programs that support or oppose political parties or candidates
- Research projects and activities
- Retrospective activities.
For more information, visit Just Futures.