Deadline: 21 April 2017
The NAB Foundation is seeking applications for its Grant program to promote social innovation in their focus areas. Social innovation is defined as using new or different approaches or solutions to tackle societal issues.
The NAB Foundation’s strategic focus has evolved this year to better support organisations to be more socially innovative – enabling them to explore and promote new or different ways of solving long-term societal problems.
The NAB Foundation is designed to enable positive social outcomes through financial grants and other support to charities and social enterprises.
Grant Categories
Domestic & Family Violence Support Grant
The Domestic & Family Violence Support Grant which aims to support work in prevention, early intervention and improvement in support to victims by supporting initiatives that include but are not limited to those that:
- Focus on preventing violence including the cultivation of respectful relationships or considers cultural requirements within certain communities
- Aim to stop the cycle of violence within families and communities through focus on intergenerational change
- Are innovative in approach to early intervention focused on people who are at-risk of becoming perpetrators of domestic and family violence
- Enable greater collaboration between service groups to improve access and delivery of support services to victims
- Focus on technology solutions to facilitate the safe and secure access to information and support as well as the use of data to improve support of victims
Financial Shocks Support Grant
The Financial Shocks Support Grant which aims to support work in helping Australians build financial resilience to prepare for and weather financial shocks to prevent long-term financial damage. This grant will consider initiatives that include, but are not limited to those that:
- Focus on designing, testing or launching of innovative products, services or programs that support positive financial behaviour
- Support the use of data and data analytics to provide insights that will positively influence financial behaviour or help stop Australians falling into financial hardship
- Focus on new or different solutions and harnesses the transformative power of technology
- Focuses on new or different learning delivery tools and mechanisms for increasing financial literacy that is identified as a gap in this area
Grant Types
There will be two grant types on offer this year with grant amounts to start from $50,000 pa to $500,000 (paid up to a three year period):
- The Thrive grant to help organisations become sustainable, scale or collaborate and move to their next stage of growth; and;
- The Seed grant to support the seeding of innovative ideas or help organisations gets started through supporting core operations and capacity building.
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.
- 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
Applications need to be submitted electronically via given website.
Eligible Country: Australia
For more information, please visit NAB Foundation’s Grant.