Deadline: 28-Mar-22
The Multicultural Communications Outreach Program is now open to support multicultural communities to produce and distribute content that provides information about the COVID-19 vaccination program and encourages COVID Safe behaviour.
The Multicultural Communications Outreach Program (MCOP) 2.0 funds multicultural media, community members and organisations to produce informative, engaging content that provides information about the COVID-19 vaccination program and encourages COVIDSafe behaviour.
The program will support the production and distribution of content by multicultural communities, for multicultural communities. Content should be guided by culturally and linguistically diverse community members telling their own stories.
Objectives
The program’s key objectives are to:
- Increase the number of Victorians being COVIDSafe.
- Increase the number of Victorians taking part in the COVID-19 vaccination program, including childhood vaccinations
- Begin to support the social and economic recovery of Victoria’s multicultural communities..
- Provide opportunities for new and emerging communities to develop content skills and channels.
- Build new connections and relationships between the Victorian Government and multicultural communities.
- Produce innovative, meaningful and engaging content.
Funding Information
- Grants up to $75,000 are available.
Eligibility Criteria
- You must be based in and/or have strong connections in Victoria. (They encourage both Victorian residents and temporary visa holders to apply.)
- To apply as an individual, you must identify as part of, and have reach into, a culturally diverse, multicultural or new and emerging community. You must also show a letter from a community leader or organisation supporting your application.
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Your organisation must be based in Victoria and/or show a connection to the Victorian community your proposed project supports. Eligible organisations include:
- multicultural and multilingual community media organisations
- social enterprises
- local councils
- universities
- not-for-profit organisations
- regional or statewide peak multicultural/interfaith organisations
- faith-based or community-led organisations.
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If applying as an organisation, you must be one of the following entity types or partner with one of these entity types:
- incorporated association (these usually have ‘Association’ or ‘Incorporated’ or ‘Inc.’ in their legal name)
- incorporated cooperative (commonly have ‘Cooperative’ in their legal name)
- a not-for-profit entity registered under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cwlth) or the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012 (Vic)
- a company incorporated under the Corporations Act.
- Organisations that have overdue reports from any Fairer Victoria, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (previously the Department of Premier and Cabinet) funded programs must submit approved reports before applying.
For more information, visit Goverment of Victoria.
For more information, visit https://www.vic.gov.au/multicultural-communications-outreach-program