Deadline: 30-Mar-23
The Ian Potter Foundation is accepting applications for its Grants Program.
Program Areas
- Community Wellbeing
- The Foundation seeks to identify and support those organisations which have well thought out projects that seek to help vulnerable members of the community to overcome the challenging circumstances in which they find themselves.
- The Community Wellbeing program seeks to fund initiatives delivered by organisations supporting people with disabilities, or otherwise marginalised individuals primarily with the objective to secure employment pathways.
- Early Childhood Development
- The early years are a critical period for brain development. Learning patterns are established at a young age and many students who start school behind, stay behind.
- Each year one in five Australian children start school developmentally vulnerable. For children who do not receive early childhood education and care it’s two in five.
- The Early Childhood Development program seeks to improve learning and development outcomes for children through innovative programs and sector initiatives in early childhood (0–8 years old), in particular, programs that recognise and foster parental engagement in their children’s learning and development.
Objectives
- Community Wellbeing
- To improve circumstances for disadvantaged members of the community, this program area funds initiatives delivered by organisations supporting people with disabilities, or otherwise marginalised individuals primarily with the objective to secure employment pathways.
- Early Childhood Development
- To support innovative projects that target vulnerable communities that seek to improve child development outcomes and have potential for scale.
- To scale and consolidate successful evidence programs to a point of sustainability.
- To support initiatives that seek to better integrate fractured services/systems in early childhood, improve access to and quality of ECEC and/or strengthen the ECEC workforce.
- To develop shared measurement tools and or resources for the early childhood sector.
- To evaluate large scale interventions (particularly randomised control trials) that contribute to enhancing the evidence base for early years intervention.
Funding Information
- Community Wellbeing: The Foundation only considers grant applications for multi-year grants for a minimum of $100,000.
- Early Childhood Development: In general, the recommended minimum grant amount for institutions and organisations is $100,000 per year and grants are usually multi-year.
What do they fund?
- The Ian Potter Foundation:
- Seeks to support innovative, ambitious research undertaken by universities and research institutes
- Does not provide funding for projects or items of equipment that might be funded internally or by a government agency such as the NH&MRC or the ARC
- Has specific funding objectives within each program area.
Funding Guidelines
- Community Wellbeing
- In the Community Wellbeing program area, the Foundation seeks to identify and support those organisations which have well thought out projects that seek to help vulnerable members of the community to overcome the challenging circumstances in which they find themselves.
- The Foundation’s support extends both to organisations that have demonstrated success and to those seeking to make well-considered innovations. The Foundation favours programs that are preventative in nature and seek to address the root causes of disadvantage.
- Early Childhood Development
- The early years are a critical period for brain development. During that time children learn social, interpersonal, and cognitive skills that help them lead healthy, happy lives and participate in learning and work (Centre for the Developing Child, 2010).
- Each year one in five Australian children start school developmentally vulnerable. For children who do not receive early childhood education and care (ECEC) it’s two in five. (Productivity Commission, 2021). Once children start school behind it is difficult for them to catch up.
- Early interventions are both cost-effective in that they reduce long-term costs to society, have the benefit of early mitigation of problems that can cause significant lifelong anguish and enhance the chances of children thriving throughout their lives.
- The Foundation’s Early Childhood Development program seeks to improve learning and development outcomes for Australian children (aged 0-8 years) by supporting targeted and universal programs.
Research institutes or universities
- If you are a researcher at a university or research institute and wish to apply for a grant, you must contact your research office or advancement team first. The research office/advancement team will provide guidance on submitting an EOI/application to the Foundation.
For more information, visit The Ian Potter Foundation Grant.