Deadline: 14-Apr-24
The St.George Foundation is inviting applications for Inspire Grant to uplift the education outcomes of children and young people facing the greatest barriers to reaching their potential.
Impact Areas
- Participation: supporting school attendance, retention, participation in further study or training, access to education
- Engagement: supporting engagement or re-engagement with education/learning, motivation, confidence, wellbeing, cultural identity
- Achievement: supporting completion of school or further study, transition to next level education or employment, improved learning outcomes
- Capacity building: supporting parent/carer engagement in their child’s learning; improving teaching and learning practice
Funding Information
- The Inspire Grant provides up to $100,000 per year for three years to support better education outcomes for children and young people.
- They invest in smaller, local charities providing opportunities for children and young people experiencing disadvantage and support innovative approaches to education access, participation, learning and transition to further study or employment.
- St.George Foundation Inspire Grants are currently available to two eligible charities once every two years.
Priority Groups
- The focus is on addressing the needs of those facing the greatest barriers to receiving the educational opportunities and support needed to reach their potential. These are children and young people (0-24 years):
- From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.
- From culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including children of refugee and asylum seeker families.
- With disability.
- Who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse.
- Living in out of home care.
- Who are incarcerated or have had contact with the criminal justice system.
- Experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.
- Living in regional and remote communities.
What they will fund?
- The priority is to support pilots and trials of new approaches, or growth or extension of an existing, proven approach. This includes initiatives that help children and young people (0-24 years) experiencing disadvantage to:
- Access and participate in formal education.
- Access learning via alternative pathways.
- Stay engaged or re-engage with school/education/learning.
- Complete school or further education.
- Address learning gaps.
- Progress learning where there are complex needs.
- Improve learning outcomes.
- Transition to further education, training or employment.
- Address underachievement/underserved.
- Provide pathways to employment.
What they will not fund?
- Charity works outside Australia
- Initiatives outside of NSW/ACT/QLD/WA
- Sponsorship or fundraising activities
- Residential camps, except where that is the core purpose of the applicant organisation
- Research
- Individuals
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organisation is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR-1 status) and registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC).
- Your organisation can provide recent, audited financial statements, signed by the auditor (those with annual revenue less than $500,000 are exempt).
- Your organisation has an annual gross revenue of less than $5 million.
- Your organisation receives less than 60% of its annual revenue from federal, state or local government funding, where income is above $1million per annum.
- Your proposed initiative is located within NSW, ACT, QLD or WA
For more information, visit St.George Foundation.