Deadline: 22-Oct-20
The Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation is seeking applications to provide funding for community projects in the Hunter, Central Coast, Central West, Mid North Coast, New England and Northern Rivers areas of NSW. Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation was created more than 15 years ago as a gift from Newcastle Permanent Building Society to the community.
The Charitable Foundation funds projects that directly benefit those most in need in the community and actively seeks to support projects that are sustainable over the long term or deliver an enduring community benefit beyond the funding period.
Funding Information
- Foundation grants generally range from $20,000 to $200,000 with an average grant size of approximately $50,000.
Funding Principles
The Charitable Foundation’s grant making is underpinned by the following principles and provides grants to projects, initiatives, and programs that:
- have aims and objectives which are in synergy with the key focus areas of the Charitable Foundation,
- take a new approach to solving problems and have potential for expansion and or replication,
- provide evidence of effective project management and outcome evaluation are sustainable over the long term or deliver an enduring community benefit beyond the funding period,
- directly benefit those most in need in community, and
- do not have the ability to attract significant government, public, or corporate support.
Focus Areas
The Charitable Foundation will consider applications from eligible charitable and not-for-profit organizations for important projects, initiatives and programs that address one or more of the following key focus areas:
- Health: Projects that provide improved health outcomes for the most disadvantaged, isolated, and vulnerable in the community, with a priority for:
- projects that use new technology to deliver improved health services to regional areas
- initiatives that improve health awareness and resources in regional communities and disadvantaged groups
- initiatives that support good mental health in regional communities, and projects that focus on key health issues for regional communities.
- Young people: Projects that provide improved life outcomes for marginalised and at-risk young people in the community. The Charitable Foundation prioritises projects that:
- support early intervention initiatives for childhood education, development, and wellbeing
- facilitate remediation, development, and mentoring for disadvantaged and disengaged youth, and
- assist initiatives that support youth mental health in regional communities.
- Social wellbeing: Projects that provide improved social wellbeing for the most disadvantaged or marginalised in community. The Charitable Foundation prioritises projects that:
- assist socially disadvantaged people in community to build new skills facilitate socially marginalised and isolated groups to build social connections, and
- help communities build resilience through social infrastructure, connectedness, and healthy lifestyle.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding applicants must be:
- Endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office as a Type 1 Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR),
- Endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office as a Tax Concession Charity (TCC),
- Registered with the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profit Commission,
- A not-for-profit organization which is charitable at law, and
- A legal entity such as an incorporated association or corporation.
Ineligibility
The following requests are not eligible for grant funding:
- General sponsorship and fundraising activities;
- Events or commercial activities;
- Small contributions to large appeals or large capital projects;
- Projects of a political or religious nature;
- One-off activities, festivals or events;
- Contributions to work that would normally be considered the responsibility of local authorities or government departments;
- Requests for recurrent or ongoing wages or personnel costs (non-recurrent personnel costs directly related to project delivery may be accepted);
- Recurrent operational costs such as rent and utilities;
- Requests to support individuals;
- Organizations which have not met their obligations and responsibilities under previous funding agreements;
- Expeditions or travel outside the Charitable Foundation footprint or overseas;
- Unsolicited applications for emergency relief and material aid;
- Study or attendance at conferences or seminars;
- Projects and programs based outside the Hunter, Central Coast, Mid North Coast, Northern Rivers, Central West and New England;
- Endowments, memorials, bursaries or named academic chairs.
Assessment Criteria
- Whether the applicant’s organization and project align with the Charitable Foundation’s vision, mission, values, and strategy grant making model;
- If the project seeks to meet a real need within the community and is the project an appropriate response to that need;
- What benefit(s) the proposed project delivers to the identified target market/group and broader community?
- Whether the project’s primary focus is consistent with the identified focus areas and geographical regions of the Charitable Foundation;
- Whether the applicant has the knowledge, resources, and capacity to deliver what is proposed;
- If the project demonstrates program logic;
- Ensuring the funding request is realistic and well defined, with a detailed budget provided;
- Evidence of effective project management, evaluation, and performance monitoring;
- Whether the project is likely to become self-sustaining after the Charitable Foundation’s support ceases and/or can deliver an enduring benefit beyond the funding period.
For more information, visit https://www.newcastlepermanent.com.au/charitable-foundation/funding