Deadline: 27 October 2017
The NAB Foundation has announced that they have opened the environmental wellbeing grant round for the NAB Foundation’s 2017 Grants Program.
The NAB Foundation’s Sustainable Regions Grants strengthen regional communities by enabling and inspiring them to live sustainably through enhancing the natural environment.
NAB is committed to strengthening regional communities. It does this by:
- valuing natural capital,
- helping regions better manage their natural resources, and
- promoting biodiversity in the face of challenges such as land degradation, declining access to water and water quality and climate change.
The Sustainable Regions Grants from the NAB Foundation support the development and implementation of regional approaches to:
- strengthen co-ordination and collaboration between environmental groups, business, landholders and government,
- involve the community in practical on-ground action to improve the environment, and
- implement regional solutions to environmental challenges.
Grant Categories
There are two grant types on offer within this category:
- Thrive Grant: Thrive grants help initiatives or organizations to become sustainable, scale or collaborate and move to their next stage of growth,
- Seed Grant: Seed grants build; test or pilot innovative ideas or help organizations get started through core operations and capacity building.
Grant amounts will start from $100,000 to $1,000,000 payable over a maximum period of up to three years.
Eligible Activities
Examples of the types of initiatives that may be eligible for the NAB Foundation Sustainable Regions Grants include but are not limited to those that address:
- Water quality: by increasing gully and stream bank control, improving fertiliser application efficiency, reducing erosion losses and improving farm water efficiency or minimising farm run-off,
- Climate change: by undertaking climate adaptation or carbon sequestration projects, implementing traditional firestick farming practices and other activities which reduce carbon emissions or mitigate climate risk, and
- Biodiversity enhancement: by delivering re-vegetation or restoration of ecosystems such as coastal habitats, wetlands and riparian vegetation and enhancement of pollination or pest control services.
Eligibility Criteria
- Registered as a charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC), or if not registered with the ACNC, applicant’s social enterprise, program or initiative has a charitable purpose that applicants can demonstrate is aligned to foundation’s grant category.
- If applicant’s organization is not registered with the ACNC, their constitution or governing rules must contain charitable object(s).
- Has an ABN (Australian Business Number) and is incorporated, unless applying for a Seed Grant.
- Applies to the Seed Grant only – if applicants are not yet incorporated or registered with the ACNC and are applying for the Seed Grant, the foundation will seek further information from applicants.
- Operates in Australia and will use the grant for the benefit of Australia communities.
- Prepared to sign and comply with the terms of the NAB Foundation Grant Agreement. If applicants require any of the terms to be modified, the foundation will ask applicants to explain this in their application.
- Understand that the NAB Foundation reserves the right to accept or reject any applications in its sole discretion.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
Eligible Country: Australia
For more information, please visit Sustainable Regions Grants.