Deadline: 3-Jul-24
The application for the 2024 QBE Foundation Local Grants Program has now opened.
Areas
- Climate resilience
- Through this category, they aim to provide support and mitigation options for communities to become more resilient and prepared for climate impacts. Initiatives can be working to address environmental regeneration, climate change and disaster preparedness, resilience and recovery.
- Inclusion
- Through this category, they aim to increase access to opportunities and resources for the groups in the communities who experience exclusion or are marginalised in society. Initiatives aim to ensure the “whole” community is acknowledged and has the opportunity to contribute and in doing that they all benefit. Initiatives may address reconciliation, accessibility, LGTBIQ+ inclusion, mental health and gender equality.
- QBE Employee Choice
- This category is reserved for QBE employees based in Australia to apply for a grant in collaboration with a charity they work with or feel passionately about. Employees will be asked to provide details of their experience with the charity.
- Charity applicants: Please note the QBE employee applicant may be called upon to advocate for your work. If you have any concerns with this, please note it in your application.
Funding Information
- Multiple grants of $40,000 will be awarded per category in 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
- Charity eligibility
- To be eligible for a QBE Foundation local grant, the organisation:
- Must be a registered ‘not-for-profit’ (or non-profit) with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission (ACNC)
- Must have Australian Tax Office endorsement of DGR 1 or 2 status
- Must not be affiliated with a political party or union, or take an overtly political stance in the focus of their work
- May have a religious basis, but any program or initiative supported by QBE must not incorporate religious teaching into the delivery of the program or initiative
- Must be based in Australia, although initiatives working in Australia, New Zealand or the Pacific will be considered
- Note: Australia Pacific QBE Foundation charity partners and 2023 local grant recipients are not eligible to apply.
- To be eligible for a QBE Foundation local grant, the organisation:
- Application suitability and alignment
- Only applications working to address issues in the local grant categories will be considered. You will need to clearly demonstrate the relevance of your initiative to the category, so please consider this before applying
- You can only apply once per project or initiative. Please do not submit multiple applications for the same project or initiative across different categories
- QBE Foundation local grants are intended for high impact community initiatives. Requests for funding for “business as usual” activities will be considered less favourably than specific initiatives
- They understand that some initiatives require support from multiple funders. If this is the case, please outline clearly in your application where other funding is coming from, any funding expected in the future or due to end in the coming 12 months, and how you plan to report on the QBE Foundation portion of the total funding
- The organisation must be based in Australia, but initiatives working in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Fiji will be considered
- Unfortunately, feedback on individual applications or reasons why your organisation was not provided with a grant cannot be provided. If an application does not meet initial eligibility criteria for any reason, they are not able to contact you before applications close. Please take the time to ensure you only submit an application if you meet all the conditions listed above. It is in the discretion of Australia Pacific QBE Foundation whether to make a grant to your organisation and to determine the value of that grant.
For more information, visit QBE Foundation.
