Deadline: 30-Jun-2020
The nib foundation is currently seeking applications for its 2020 Health Smart Grant Program.
Through the Health Smart Grant program the foundation partners with registered charities to help people and communities live healthier lives.
They will support registered Australian charities that specialise in prevention and have a track record of engaging and empowering people to be Health Smart in their everyday lives.
Preference will be given to initiatives that are inclusive and relevant for youth and young adult audiences. They believe in supporting people to make good decisions that will positively impact their health and wellbeing, and reduce modifiable health risks in their lives. Therefore, successful projects will draw on a strong evidence base to build health literacy, helping people to access, understand and use information to adopt healthier behaviours.
Funding Priorities
The foundation is interested in initiatives that satisfy one or more of the following:
- Facilitate access to quality, reliable, current and targeted health information.
- Target risk or protective factors that relate to prevalent health issues.
- Are informed by evidence to achieve health promoting behaviour change.
- Translate new evidence into practice in a way that is practical, scalable and sustainable.
- Operate within a strengths-based philosophy to empower and encourage good health.
- Improve the environment, culture, awareness or attitude surrounding a health risk.
Outcomes
The outcomes this grant program wishes to achieve are:
- Awareness & knowledge – Increasing knowledge and information of risks, protective behaviours, and navigating the health system.
- Skills & action – Developing practical skills which enable health promoting behaviour or effective responses to health challenges.
- Attitudes & beliefs – Improving confidence, belief, motivation and self-agency to address health challenges and maintain good health.
- Access & connection – Increasing access to information, people, tools, services and environments which positively influence health behaviours.
- Risk & protective factors – Tangible and measurable improvements in reducing risk factors and increasing protective factors.
Funding Information
- A funding pool of $320,000 will be distributed to six successful grant recipients who will each receive $40,000 in grant funding.
- A ‘Peoples Vote’ will also be held during the grant period, where two of six grantees will receive an additional $40,000 in funding as voted by nib members and the wider public.
Eligibility Criteria
The Health Smart Grant is delivered through nib foundation’s Private Ancillary Fund which means that to be eligible your organisation must be:
- Endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Item 1 by the ATO, and;
- Endorsed as a Tax Concession Charity (TCC) by the ATO (or be a tax exempt entity).
For more information, visit https://www.nib.com.au/foundation/news/our-2020-health-smart-grants-are-open