National Australia Bank Foundation Community Grants Program – Australia

Deadline: 28-Feb-23

The National Australia Bank (NAB) Foundation through its Community Grants Program is funding local projects that help communities prepare for natural disasters, support long-term recovery, and build resilience against future disasters.

Categories

• Grants of up to $10,000 are available for community-led projects that do one or more of the following:
  • Readiness: help communities (people, environments, infrastructure) prepare for natural disasters
  • Recovery: help communities, landscapes and fauna rebuild and rehabilitate after natural disasters
  • Future-proofing: reduce the risk of future natural disasters by cutting a community’s carbon emissions.

Prioritised Funding Areas

• Readiness:
  • Preparedness and resilience tools and trainings for households, communities and businesses
  • Disaster response tools and equipment
  • Future proofing community infrastructure
  • Mental health and wellbeing programs that prepare people for natural disasters
  • Future-proofing natural environments
  • Future-proofing wildlife
• Recovery:
  • Initiatives that rebuild community cohesion after a natural disaster
  • Rebuilding community infrastructure
  • Community recovery planning
  • Mental health and wellbeing recovery
  • Rehabilitation of natural environments
  • Wildlife recovery and rehabilitation
• Future-proofing:
  • Food co-operatives
  • Urban greening
  • Efficient waste recovery and recycling
  • Low-carbon transport and supporting infrastructure

Funding Information

• There are two funding types:
  • Community Grants of up to $10,000, from a total pool of $1 million.
  • Impact grants, from a total funding pool of $200,000 for recipients of Community Grants where the project intends to have long-term social or environmental impact. This funding aims to support grantees to replicate their project in other areas, scale it or measure the impact. Applications can’t be submitted for impact grants only.

Eligibility Criteria

• NAB Foundation Community Grants are open to:
  • Charities that are registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for Profits Commission (ACNC)
  • Social enterprises (not-for-profit and for-profit) or start-ups with social and/or environmental impact at the core of their business
  • Groups or organisations (not-for-profit and for-profit) that hold an Australian Business Number (ABN) and have a charitable purpose
  • local government or government-funded facilities (such as a school or childcare centre) seeking funding for a program that furthers charitable purpose.
• Your organisation does not need to have Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status.
• If your organisation is not a registered charity or social enterprise with the ACNC, it must have documentation that demonstrates its charitable purpose.
• NAB Foundation recognises that the community investments can contribute to broader global movements, both in the grant-making and partnerships.
• The NAB Foundation intends to prioritise funding for smaller organisations with an income of $3 million or less per annum, and organisations who receive less than 40% of their annual funding from government. While the NAB Foundation will prioritise funding for smaller organisations, larger organisations can still apply, if they have a local project/initiative that meets local needs, and they can demonstrate the funds will be used at that local community level.

Exclusions

Applications won’t be accepted for the following:

• organisations or programs outside of Australia
• organisations that don’t have an ABN or those that don’t hold charitable purpose
• individual applicants or personal expenses
• programs that don’t align to the categories of the Community Grants program
• activities that may be deemed harmful to the community or the environment
• recurrent costs or continued funding (grants and impact grants are one-off)
• government entities (with the exception of local government or government-funded facilities such as a school or childcare centre)
• retrospective requests, general fundraising appeals or commercial sponsorships
• business as usual activities, including marketing and fundraising activities
• religious or sectarian education (programs by religion-based organisations that support a non-religious purpose are eligible to apply)
• political support or political organisations
• bequest programs
• foundations that are grant-making bodies.

For more information, visit National Australia Bank Foundation.