Deadline: Various
- Large: 12 August 2020
- Medium: 30 September 2020
- Small: 26 August 2020
The Tasmanian Community Fund (TCF) is currently calling for small, medium and large applications that support Tasmanians and Tasmanian organisations to recover and rebuild from Covid19.
Streams
The TCF will be seeking applications across three streams:
- Support – supporting and meeting the needs of vulnerable people to ensure they are not left behind as a result of Covid19.
- Connection – creating spaces and programs/processes to enable individuals and communities to reconnect and rebuild the social fabric of communities.
- Rebuild – providing individual and organisational capacity building including options for realigning work and directions for the “new normal” and beyond.
Focus Areas
Through these streams, applications will be sought in the following focus areas:
- Support:
- improving educational outcomes including reconnection with education
- improving mental health outcomes
- improving drug and alcohol misuse outcomes
- ensuring local access to food
- supporting migrant and refugee communities (including non-permanent residents)
- reducing the level of and impact of family violence, including the impact on children and young people
- improving outcomes for people living with a disability
- Connection:
- increasing community connection
- reducing social isolation
- improving community resilience
- infrastructure and equipment that supports or enables communities to connect, support and rebuild
- rebuilding social fabric
- Rebuild:
- increasing individual and organisational capacity
- enabling organisations to take advantage of new opportunities
- enabling organisations to realign their work and ways of work to support community outcomes in a post Covid19 Tasmania.
Funding Information
- Large ($100 000 to $500 000)
- Medium ($20 001 to $70 000)
- Small ($1 000 to $20 000)
Project Funding is available for:
- a maximum of five years (awarded amount can be split across this timeline in accordance with the needs of the project).
- projects that are tailored for the Tasmanian community
- programs, including pilot programs
- infrastructure and equipment
- projects that include community or organisation collaboration are strongly encouraged
Funding is not available for:
- research, feasibility studies or trials;
- on-going operational costs;
- projects that do not contribute to the support, connection and rebuild of the Tasmanian community from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply, organisations must be:
- not for profit;
- incorporated or be a not-for-profit legal entity, or sponsored by an incorporated organisation or a not-for-profit legal entity; and
- based in Tasmania, or proposing to undertake a project in Tasmania.
- in Tasmania, or proposing to undertake a project in Tasmania
Preference in funding will be given to projects that best demonstrate:
- benefit to the Tasmanian community;
- innovation and proactivity;
- an integrated and collaborative approach, avoiding duplication;
- value for money;
- community support for the project, particularly from any partners;
- high levels of other financial or in-kind contributions;
- the ability to build and strengthen community capacity;
- good prospects for successful implementation;
- volunteer and community involvement with the project.
For more information, visit https://tascomfund.org/what-we-fund/covid-19-response-support-connect-and-rebuild-round