Deadline: 15-Mar-23
The Tasmanian Community Fund is now inviting applications for its Strategic Initiatives Grant which focuses on Education, Employment and Learning.
The Tasmanian Community Fund is committed to providing funding to support projects that remove the barriers to participating in education, employment and learning.
Focus Areas
- The Tasmanian Community Fund is calling for expressions of interest ($100 000 to $700 000 over the life of the project) for a range of collaborative and sustainable projects in one of the following focus areas:
- Removing barriers to Tasmanians participating in education, employment and learning
- Increasing the wellbeing and resilience of children and young people
- Increasing functional literacy and numeracy (including financial literacy)
- Increasing digital literacy and increasing availability of digital data and device access outside of school
- Decreasing the number of children commencing kindergarten with vulnerabilities
- Diverting from the justice system
- Addressing addictive behaviours
Project Funding
- Project funding is available for:
- a maximum of five years;
- projects that are tailored for the Tasmanian community;
- programs, including pilot programs;
- evaluation of the methodology being delivered.
Funding is not available for
- feasibility studies;
- duplication of existing services;
- infrastructure (more than 20% of the requested amount);
- projects that can be more suitably funded by another organisation;
- projects that do not include collaboration and partnerships or a clear articulation as to why this is not possible.
Eligibility Criteria
- Not-for-profit organisations proposing to undertake a project in Tasmania and who can provide, through their own or another organisations resources, 10% of the amount being sought from the Tasmanian Community Fund as cash contribution towards the project.
- The cash contribution must be for items attributable to the project’s implementation and must not include on-going operational costs or in-kind amounts.
For more information, visit Tasmanian Community Fund.