Deadline: 28 February 2017
The Westpac Foundation is seeking applications for its “Social Scale-up Grant” to create more job opportunities for Australians who need it most, in particular – Indigenous Australians, refugees and asylum-seekers, youth-at-risk, as well as people who have experienced homelessness, domestic and family violence and mental health issues.
Social Scale-up Grant is designed to help scale-up not-for-profit social enterprises that are creating jobs and employment pathways for individuals who often face significant barriers to entering the mainstream job market or are often excluded from the workforce.
Funding Information
- The foundation will award five grants valued at $1.5 million to organisations that have a proven model to support those individuals in accessing jobs, training and qualifications, or work experience.
- Successful recipients will receive $300,000 over three years, as well as valuable non-financial support such as business mentoring through our More than Money Program, to help scale-up their operations, grow their business and increase their social impact.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, Applicants organisation must meet all of the following criteria:
- Does the social enterprise have a proven model for creating jobs and/or employment pathways (training, qualifications or work experience) for Australians (in Westpac Foundation’s target groups) who face barriers to employment, or are often excluded from the job market?
- Has the social enterprise supported 10 or more people facing barriers to employment (within Westpac Foundation’s target groups) into an Award wage paying job (casual, part time or full time), or employment pathways?
- Is the social enterprise registered and operating in Australia?
- Does the social enterprise have Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Item 1 Status?
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: Australia
For more information, please visit Social Scale-up Grant.