Deadline: 20-May-21
The NSW Government is pleased to announce applications to support multicultural projects and events across New South Wales.
They invest in community projects and activities that foster community harmony and celebrate cultural diversity as a precious part of their identity and way of life. They are stronger together when people from diverse cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds work together on projects that make a difference.
Grants will support projects than can make a lasting positive impact on social cohesion at the grassroots level. Their project grants support collaborative relationships with Government and partnerships between community, non-government, educational organisations and the private sector.
Funding Information
- Grants ranging from $20,000 to $40,000 are available for 12-month projects than can make a lasting positive impact on social cohesion at the grassroots level.
What items cannot be funded?
The following activities are excluded from receiving grant funding:
- party political activities
- religious projects, festivals, rituals, events or promotions, except multi-faith events which involve people from more than one religion
- activities that are dependent on recurrent annual funding
- applications that seek support for supplementing, increasing or continuing ongoing service delivery or for funding the core business of the organisation
- projects that duplicate existing services
- building works (including maintenance) and equipment purchases
- media productions that have not been endorsed by Multicultural NSW prior to publication
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a Stronger Together Project Grant, applicants must:
- be a non-profit sharing organisation
- be located within NSW
- confirm past and current funding sources for the past three years
- have acquitted all prior grants
- demonstrate how the Project aligns with Multicultural NSW’s strategic plan
- demonstrate how the Project will measure outcomes
- demonstrate that the Project is cost effective and viable with an accurate budget
- have all appropriate insurances and licences
- submit an application online through the Multicultural NSW approved SmartyGrants portal before the closing date with all aspects of the application form completed
- deliver the project within 12 months of receiving the grant
- promote the Multicultural NSW and NSW Government funded event or project on their website and social media platforms.
Selection Criteria
- Language Services
- Ensuring that language is not a barrier to information and that barriers are broken down between speakers of different languages.
- That small, new and emerging communities have language support.
- Sector capability
- Developing programs and services to meet the needs of culturally diverse communities.
- Building resources that enhance leadership, engagement, communications, service delivery and planning capability for culturally diverse communities
- Community resilience
- Building and maintaining networks across the community that can solve respond to problems and actively support social cohesion.
- Settlement
- Establishing programs that help new arrivals to thrive in new locations.
- A shared sense of value
- Building programs with strong intercultural and interfaith networks.
- Applications must address how Festivals and Events will:
- promote cross-cultural awareness and understanding.
- They must engage a broad cross-section of the NSW community and cannot solely rely on multicultural communities to attend.
- ensure NSW’s multicultural communities can celebrate, preserve and share traditions.
- be accessible by the general public and are for all communities of NSW.
For more information, visit https://multicultural.nsw.gov.au/grants/