Deadline: 24-Aug-20
The Victoria Law Foundation is accepting applications for its Knowledge Grants to support community legal organizations to develop data and information systems and processes to investigate important community legal issues.
Knowledge Grants will provide funding to organizations to build their research capacity and gain a better understanding of the legal needs of the community.
They will fund projects to collect, collate and/or analyze new or existing data and information to explore a civil legal issue, for example tenancy, consumer issues, and infringements.
Priority Areas
- develop a new understanding of the legal needs of Victorians through collection of data and information
- improve capability of the organization to collect, analyses and use data and information about particular audiences
- Share information with other organizations or agencies which results in a better understanding of the target group and ways to address need effectively.
Funding Information
- Up to $50,000 to build capacity in research and data collection through investigation into a civil legal topic.
Who can apply?
- Knowledge Grant applications are open to community legal centers and not-for-profit community organizations.
- They only fund organizations – individuals are not able to apply.
- Research organizations may not apply on their own, however, may like to partner with a community legal organization to provide guidance and advice to undertake a research project.
For more information, visit https://victorialawfoundation.org.au/grants/knowledge-grants/