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Gambling Community Benefit Fund (Round 122)

The Gambling Community Benefit Fund (GCBF) is Queensland’s largest one-off community grants program and distributes approximately $60 million each year to not-for-profit community groups.

CLOSING 30 NOVEMBER 2024

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All Grants

SwimStart

Opening date: 7th November 2023
Closing date: 30th May 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $150

Supports learn to swim activities for eligible 0 to 4 year olds.

Virgin Australia Sponsorship

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 15th May 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Invests in partnerships with organisations who align with Virgin Australia’s purpose, values, policies and who make a significant contribution to their community.

Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants

Opening date: 3rd June 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $120,000

Sanitarium Community Care Program

Opening date: 26th July 2024
Closing date: 26th July 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers mostly in-kind support (products) for community programs, projects or activities.

Female Founders Co-Investment Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $200,000

Supports innovative women-led startups preparing for early-stage capital raise.

Australian Sports Foundation Fundraising

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 2nd August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a fundraising platform for all sports at all levels to help fund their sporting needs.

Arcare Grants Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Encourages and supports innovations that give all Australians the opportunity to age well, envisioning a community where older people are valued, supported, and thriving.

Sport and Recreation Recovery Grant

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: $20,000 - $1,000,000

Assists not-for-profit sport and active recreation organisations with the clean-up, repair or replacement of equipment or facilities directly damaged by an eligible disaster event and to re-establish activities.

Fundraise Yourself

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides a way for you to fundraise online for a project within your school that improves educational outcomes for students.

Inger Rice Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $7,000

Aims to promote the health, well-being and development of young children.

Self-Employment Assistance Program (Somerset Region)

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Helps people start, develop and grow a small or micro-business through 12 months of free mentoring, workshops, accredited training and financial support.

Innovate Grant

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: $1,800

Provides grants to artists and photographers to act as sparks of financial support that ignite your creative development.

Canva’s Nonprofit Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Seeks to empower nonprofits to achieve their goals with free access to Canva’s premium features.

Our Country Our Future

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides a wide range of assistance to Indigenous Australians including to acquire land and water-related rights, and to manage Indigenous-held land and Indigenous waters.

Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Grant Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

The grant of up to $50, 000 is for Queensland-based manufacturers to improve energy efficiency measures and technology, reduce energy usage, costs and emissions.

The Pollination Project Seed Funding

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000

Exists to uplift grassroots changemakers whose work helps build a kinder, more compassionate world.

Grassroots Cricket Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Funds Queensland community cricket club programs that will grow junior participation.

Emerging Athlete Pathways

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,600

Supports eligible young athletes, coaches and officials aged 10-18 years to progress on a development pathway by providing financial assistance to help alleviate the costs associated with attending state, national and international events.

Accelerating Female Founders Program – Founders

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Finds business development programs for Queensland-based female founders or leaders of innovative businesses to take their innovation driven enterprises to the next level, create connections and access opportunities.

Tourism Business Digital Adaption Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 20th December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Provides QLD tourism businesses with a rebate and free support to help them improve their digital capabilities.

Annie Danks Trust and Danks Trust Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides grants to charities and projects that assist communities, including in areas of education and youth, financial hardship, religion, and others.

CAGES Foundation – Community Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports Aboriginal controlled organisations responding to an immediate need, focused on children aged under five.

Courier-Mail Children’s Fund

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Exists to change the lives of Queensland children in need.

Consideration is only given for children throughout Queensland. Supporting a range of charitable organisations, the Fund has provided financial assistance for:
– Mobility and learning aids
– Educational equipment and assistance
– Recreational and respite programs
– New technologies
– Medical equipment.

Community Supported Small Grants Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides funds to assist individuals experiencing financial disadvantage.

Social workers, case managers or allied health professionals employed by supporting charitable organisations (holding DGR item 1 status) may submit an application on behalf of an individual in need. This program operates in Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria.

Escaping Violence Payment Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Offers financial assistance to help those escaping domestic violence to move forward and set up a home free of violence.

Self-Employment Assistance (Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim and Somerset)

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Self-Employment Assistance provides a range of services for current and aspiring business owners, ranging from flexible individual Business Advice Sessions to a structured 12-month package of Small Business Coaching.

The Liveability Challenge (TLC)

Opening date: 12th September 2024
Closing date: 9th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000,000

Seeks groundbreaking climate solutions from across the world that push the boundaries of innovation.

Reddit Community Funds

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Provides financial support for community projects and events that help make Reddit a better community for everyone.

What kind of projects or events are eligible for funding?
– Projects that encourage participation and involvement between your community’s members, and as an extension, Reddit as a whole
– Projects that are affiliated with or intend to explicitly promote another company, website, or outside project, will not be funded.

Redkite Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides financial assistance for children, aged 18 and under, who either have cancer or have been treated for cancer.

Coles Community Support

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Supports many community and charity organisations across Australia through partnerships, fundraising, food donations and disaster relief.

Westfund Community Grants Program

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $3,000

Supports community organisations that inspire the principles of health and wellbeing, family and community and fit for life.

Roots & Shoots Mini Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $200

Offers a rewarding, seed-funding initiative to promote respect and compassion for all living things in Australia.

Purves Environmental Fund

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Supports proposals that meet the Fund’s current focus areas: degradation of key biodiversity habitat, unsustainable management of natural resources, and pollution.

Community Reward Program

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a sustainable fundraising platform for your local sporting club.

My Giving Circle Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Helps charities and not-for-profit organisations access grants, grow their supporter base, raise their profile and generate donations.

Matana Foundation for Young People Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

Focuses on improving the welfare and wellbeing of young people from severely disadvantaged or marginalised backgrounds, or whose concerns and issues are not readily funded from other sources.

Westfield Local Heroes

Opening date: 15th October 2024
Closing date: 13th March 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 to $20,000

Shines the spotlight on individuals in Australia and New Zealand who make a positive impact to their local community or environment.

RACQ Foundation Community Grant Program

Opening date: 24th October 2024
Closing date: 30th January 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Gives community groups, charities, sporting clubs and First Nations Councils the opportunity to rebuild after natural disasters and to prepare for the future with resilience-based projects.

Mazda Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: Undisclosed

Aims to fund two priority areas: supporting primary producers facing hardship and programs that address literacy and numeracy issues amongst primary school aged children.

Local Sporting Champions

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: $500 - $750

Provides financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-18 participating in state, national or international championships.

Local Para Champions

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025

Provides financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-24 participating in state, national or international championships for athletes with a disability.

Amgen Australia Donations

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Makes donations to the healthcare and non-healthcare community to further educational, scientific, or other charitable purposes.

Intercultural Understanding Partnership (ICUP) Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Provides funding for Australian schools to address intercultural and/or interfaith challenges, enhancing student learning and wellbeing.

HATCH: Taronga Accelerator Program

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 27th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Helps not-for-profit, social enterprise founders or start ups with ventures that will drive positive change for wildlife, biodiversity and the environment.

Marketing and Technology Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

Offers nonprofit organisations funds to procure technology to help maximise their impact.

The Frankie Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000

Helps support kids continue or start therapy if their NDIS plan budget has run out or a therapy or service is not covered by their current NDIS plan.

Bakers Delight Sponsorships

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers sponsorship to community groups, charities, teams and individuals for all kinds of events.

Harcourts Foundation Grants

Opening date: 4th November 2024
Closing date: 3rd February 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides support for a specific event, project, item, or initiative that helps, grows, and enriches our communities.

Queensland Destination Events Program – Destination Event Investment

Opening date: 4th November 2024
Closing date: 28th January 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $25,000

Provides single year funding for developing events seeking growth.

NRMA Insurance Community Cricket Grants

Opening date: 15th November 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Offers grants to deserving community cricket clubs across Australia.

Talk Money Financial Literacy in Action Awards

Opening date: 15th November 2024
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $2,500

Recognises and rewards teachers who inspire their students to be confident in managing money.

News Media Relief Program

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: $13,000

The News Media Relief Program is helping the sustainability of Australian news publishers by providing a proportion of salary costs for journalists producing core news content that is distributed digitally.

E.J Connellan Award

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Aims to give the opportunity to people living in Outback Australia to undertake further studies or research of a kind not otherwise readily available to them.

Social Impact Fellowship

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 9th February 2025
Funding Amount: $1,178

Offers a transformative program for Australian and New Zealand-based individuals seeking to explore their purpose and understand how they can drive greater social and environmental impact through their work and beyond.

Bendigo Bank Sponsorships, Grants and Scholarships

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Each Bendigo Bank branch supports their local community through sponsorships, grants and scholarships.

National Zakat Foundation Funding

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Assists individuals that fall into the categories of the poor, needy and indebted who are resident in Australia.

Documentary Australia Fiscal Sponsorship

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 29th January 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Grants fiscal sponsorship to independent documentary filmmakers with a quality social impact project.

Roger Rasheed Sports Foundation Support

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Aims to improve the lives of children in disadvantaged areas by providing access to first-class sports facilities, coaching, equipment, and opportunities to participate in sports.

The program helps foster health, resilience, and community connections through sport.

Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program – Community Grants

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 5th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Funds projects that promote appreciation and understanding of the experiences of service and the roles that those who served have played, and to preserve, add to the sum knowledge on, or provide access to information about Australia’s wartime heritage.

Remarkable Programs

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a range of opportunities to help drive the future of Disability Tech.

Telstra Footy Country Grants

Opening date: 2nd December 2024
Closing date: 2nd February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

Offers grants to regional and metro clubs to help strengthen, sustain and grow local footy.

As the foundation of our great game and the heartbeat of communities, investment in local clubs is vital to ensuring everyone has access to play Aussie Rules and experience the health, social and wellbeing benefits that come with belonging to a club.

ANZMHA Mental Health Study Grant

Opening date: 3rd December 2024
Closing date: 26th February 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Provides funding for students enrolling in a course that leads to a mental health qualification (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters).

Strengthening Rural Communities — Small & Vital

Opening date: 6th December 2024
Closing date: 27th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Gives small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia the opportunity to access funds for a broad range of initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities.

Strengthening Rural Communities – Prepare & Recover

Opening date: 6th December 2024
Closing date: 27th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $25,000

Supports communities in remote, rural and regional communities across Australia to implement initiatives that prevent and prepare for future climate related impacts, or recover from existing disasters in the medium to long-term timeframe.

Art Music Fund

Opening date: 6th December 2024
Closing date: 16th February 2025
Funding Amount: $7,500

Supports new work that is innovative, displays professional compositional craft and represents a benchmark of excellence in its field.

Supporting People with Cancer

Opening date: 9th December 2024
Closing date: 20th February 2025
Funding Amount: $40,000 - $120,000

Funds community-led projects aimed at promoting equity in cancer outcomes and experiences for all Australians.

Cultural Fund – Create Grants

Opening date: 16th December 2024
Closing date: 25th March 2025
Funding Amount: $20,000

Offers grants to Australian creative writers and visual artists to create new work.

Strong and Resilient Communities (SARC) Activity – Inclusive Communities Grants

Opening date: 17th December 2024
Closing date: 20th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $360,000

Supports vulnerable and disadvantaged people on pathways to self-reliance and empowerment through local community-driven solutions that support them to participate socially and/or economically.

Gambling Community Benefit Fund

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $100,000

Allocates funding to not-for-profit community groups to help them provide services, leisure activities and opportunities for Queensland communities.

Contemporary Music Touring Program

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 4th March 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $55,000

Supports national touring activity undertaken by Australian musicians performing original contemporary music.

GLOWS Scholarships

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 24th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $55,000

Aims to attract and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to undertake study.

The Guiding Local Opportunities for Wellbeing (GLOWS) Grant Program 2024–26 offers scholarships and research grants to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, community organisations and their partners for work relating to HIV and viral hepatitis over the next three years.

National Pies for Local Legends

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

Supports local sporting clubs, community groups or not-for-profit organisations.

Any registered Australian community group, sporting club or not-for-profit organisation can apply. A grant of $1,000 will be awarded each month over the next 12 months, beginning in March 2024. A major grant of $10,000 will also be awarded at the end of the program.

O’Shaughnessy Fellowships & Grants

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $100,000

Offers a one-year program that unites the world’s most bold and undiscovered researchers, builders and creatives to find, build and spread new ideas.

Wildlife Acoustics Grant Program

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 15th February 2025
Funding Amount: UP to $12,000

Supports the advancement of wildlife research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation.

Motorola Solutions Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 23rd January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports organizations that offer first responder programming and technology and engineering education, and align to the Foundation’s values of accountability, innovation, impact, diversity and inclusion.

Wilkes Climate Launch Prize

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $250,000

Highlights top global ideas for combating climate change.

Arts Projects – Individuals & Groups

Opening date: 6th January 2025
Closing date: 4th March 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $50,000

Funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities.

Australian Geographic Awards for Nature

Opening date: 6th January 2025
Closing date: 21st February 2025

Aims to support conservation leaders working across Australia.

The Australian Geographic Awards for Nature is the AG Society’s flagship conservation funding program. These competitive grants are run annually and each of the grants, known henceforth as awards, are worth either $20,000, $30,000 or $50,000 each.

Youth Empowerment Program

Opening date: 7th January 2025
Closing date: 28th January 2025
Funding Amount: $300,000 - $1,000,000

Provides funding to organisations for programs for youth aged 10 to 17 who are engaged in, or at-risk of becoming engaged in, criminal and/or anti-social behaviour.

NAIDOC Local Grants

Opening date: 10th January 2025
Closing date: 20th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $25,000

Assists with the cost of activities and events being held around National NAIDOC Week (6 to 13 July 2025) that celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures, achievements and continuing contributions to our country and Australian society.

National Shed Development Programme (NSDP)

Opening date: 14th January 2025
Closing date: 21st February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Provides financial assistance to men’s sheds across Australia.

Paid Employment Pathways Package – WorkFoundations

Opening date: 14th January 2025
Closing date: 11th February 2025
Funding Amount: $250,000 - $750,000

Aims to fund social enterprises and businesses who can provide tailored, paid employment placements with integrated wrap around services for job seekers facing challenging barriers to employment.

Stronger Communities Programme

Opening date: 14th February 2025
Closing date: 28th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

The Stronger Communities Programme (SCP) provides grants of between $2,500 and $20,000 to community organisations and local governments for infrastructure projects that deliver social benefits for local communities.

Arts

Innovate Grant

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: $1,800

Provides grants to artists and photographers to act as sparks of financial support that ignite your creative development.

Documentary Australia Fiscal Sponsorship

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 29th January 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Grants fiscal sponsorship to independent documentary filmmakers with a quality social impact project.

Art Music Fund

Opening date: 6th December 2024
Closing date: 16th February 2025
Funding Amount: $7,500

Supports new work that is innovative, displays professional compositional craft and represents a benchmark of excellence in its field.

Cultural Fund – Create Grants

Opening date: 16th December 2024
Closing date: 25th March 2025
Funding Amount: $20,000

Offers grants to Australian creative writers and visual artists to create new work.

Contemporary Music Touring Program

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 4th March 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $55,000

Supports national touring activity undertaken by Australian musicians performing original contemporary music.

Arts Projects – Individuals & Groups

Opening date: 6th January 2025
Closing date: 4th March 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $50,000

Funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities.

Business

Virgin Australia Sponsorship

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 15th May 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Invests in partnerships with organisations who align with Virgin Australia’s purpose, values, policies and who make a significant contribution to their community.

Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants

Opening date: 3rd June 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $120,000

Female Founders Co-Investment Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $200,000

Supports innovative women-led startups preparing for early-stage capital raise.

Self-Employment Assistance Program (Somerset Region)

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Helps people start, develop and grow a small or micro-business through 12 months of free mentoring, workshops, accredited training and financial support.

Canva’s Nonprofit Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Seeks to empower nonprofits to achieve their goals with free access to Canva’s premium features.

Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Grant Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

The grant of up to $50, 000 is for Queensland-based manufacturers to improve energy efficiency measures and technology, reduce energy usage, costs and emissions.

Accelerating Female Founders Program – Founders

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Finds business development programs for Queensland-based female founders or leaders of innovative businesses to take their innovation driven enterprises to the next level, create connections and access opportunities.

Tourism Business Digital Adaption Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 20th December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Provides QLD tourism businesses with a rebate and free support to help them improve their digital capabilities.

Self-Employment Assistance (Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim and Somerset)

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Self-Employment Assistance provides a range of services for current and aspiring business owners, ranging from flexible individual Business Advice Sessions to a structured 12-month package of Small Business Coaching.

Marketing and Technology Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

Offers nonprofit organisations funds to procure technology to help maximise their impact.

News Media Relief Program

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: $13,000

The News Media Relief Program is helping the sustainability of Australian news publishers by providing a proportion of salary costs for journalists producing core news content that is distributed digitally.

Remarkable Programs

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a range of opportunities to help drive the future of Disability Tech.

O’Shaughnessy Fellowships & Grants

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $100,000

Offers a one-year program that unites the world’s most bold and undiscovered researchers, builders and creatives to find, build and spread new ideas.

Youth Empowerment Program

Opening date: 7th January 2025
Closing date: 28th January 2025
Funding Amount: $300,000 - $1,000,000

Provides funding to organisations for programs for youth aged 10 to 17 who are engaged in, or at-risk of becoming engaged in, criminal and/or anti-social behaviour.

Paid Employment Pathways Package – WorkFoundations

Opening date: 14th January 2025
Closing date: 11th February 2025
Funding Amount: $250,000 - $750,000

Aims to fund social enterprises and businesses who can provide tailored, paid employment placements with integrated wrap around services for job seekers facing challenging barriers to employment.

Community

Virgin Australia Sponsorship

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 15th May 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Invests in partnerships with organisations who align with Virgin Australia’s purpose, values, policies and who make a significant contribution to their community.

Sanitarium Community Care Program

Opening date: 26th July 2024
Closing date: 26th July 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers mostly in-kind support (products) for community programs, projects or activities.

Arcare Grants Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Encourages and supports innovations that give all Australians the opportunity to age well, envisioning a community where older people are valued, supported, and thriving.

Canva’s Nonprofit Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Seeks to empower nonprofits to achieve their goals with free access to Canva’s premium features.

The Pollination Project Seed Funding

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000

Exists to uplift grassroots changemakers whose work helps build a kinder, more compassionate world.

Annie Danks Trust and Danks Trust Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides grants to charities and projects that assist communities, including in areas of education and youth, financial hardship, religion, and others.

Courier-Mail Children’s Fund

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Exists to change the lives of Queensland children in need.

Consideration is only given for children throughout Queensland. Supporting a range of charitable organisations, the Fund has provided financial assistance for:
– Mobility and learning aids
– Educational equipment and assistance
– Recreational and respite programs
– New technologies
– Medical equipment.

Community Supported Small Grants Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides funds to assist individuals experiencing financial disadvantage.

Social workers, case managers or allied health professionals employed by supporting charitable organisations (holding DGR item 1 status) may submit an application on behalf of an individual in need. This program operates in Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria.

Reddit Community Funds

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Provides financial support for community projects and events that help make Reddit a better community for everyone.

What kind of projects or events are eligible for funding?
– Projects that encourage participation and involvement between your community’s members, and as an extension, Reddit as a whole
– Projects that are affiliated with or intend to explicitly promote another company, website, or outside project, will not be funded.

Coles Community Support

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Supports many community and charity organisations across Australia through partnerships, fundraising, food donations and disaster relief.

Westfund Community Grants Program

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $3,000

Supports community organisations that inspire the principles of health and wellbeing, family and community and fit for life.

Roots & Shoots Mini Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $200

Offers a rewarding, seed-funding initiative to promote respect and compassion for all living things in Australia.

My Giving Circle Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Helps charities and not-for-profit organisations access grants, grow their supporter base, raise their profile and generate donations.

Matana Foundation for Young People Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

Focuses on improving the welfare and wellbeing of young people from severely disadvantaged or marginalised backgrounds, or whose concerns and issues are not readily funded from other sources.

Westfield Local Heroes

Opening date: 15th October 2024
Closing date: 13th March 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 to $20,000

Shines the spotlight on individuals in Australia and New Zealand who make a positive impact to their local community or environment.

RACQ Foundation Community Grant Program

Opening date: 24th October 2024
Closing date: 30th January 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Gives community groups, charities, sporting clubs and First Nations Councils the opportunity to rebuild after natural disasters and to prepare for the future with resilience-based projects.

Mazda Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: Undisclosed

Aims to fund two priority areas: supporting primary producers facing hardship and programs that address literacy and numeracy issues amongst primary school aged children.

Bakers Delight Sponsorships

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers sponsorship to community groups, charities, teams and individuals for all kinds of events.

Harcourts Foundation Grants

Opening date: 4th November 2024
Closing date: 3rd February 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides support for a specific event, project, item, or initiative that helps, grows, and enriches our communities.

Queensland Destination Events Program – Destination Event Investment

Opening date: 4th November 2024
Closing date: 28th January 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $25,000

Provides single year funding for developing events seeking growth.

Social Impact Fellowship

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 9th February 2025
Funding Amount: $1,178

Offers a transformative program for Australian and New Zealand-based individuals seeking to explore their purpose and understand how they can drive greater social and environmental impact through their work and beyond.

Bendigo Bank Sponsorships, Grants and Scholarships

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Each Bendigo Bank branch supports their local community through sponsorships, grants and scholarships.

National Zakat Foundation Funding

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Assists individuals that fall into the categories of the poor, needy and indebted who are resident in Australia.

Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program – Community Grants

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 5th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Funds projects that promote appreciation and understanding of the experiences of service and the roles that those who served have played, and to preserve, add to the sum knowledge on, or provide access to information about Australia’s wartime heritage.

Telstra Footy Country Grants

Opening date: 2nd December 2024
Closing date: 2nd February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

Offers grants to regional and metro clubs to help strengthen, sustain and grow local footy.

As the foundation of our great game and the heartbeat of communities, investment in local clubs is vital to ensuring everyone has access to play Aussie Rules and experience the health, social and wellbeing benefits that come with belonging to a club.

Strengthening Rural Communities — Small & Vital

Opening date: 6th December 2024
Closing date: 27th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Gives small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia the opportunity to access funds for a broad range of initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities.

Strengthening Rural Communities – Prepare & Recover

Opening date: 6th December 2024
Closing date: 27th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $25,000

Supports communities in remote, rural and regional communities across Australia to implement initiatives that prevent and prepare for future climate related impacts, or recover from existing disasters in the medium to long-term timeframe.

Supporting People with Cancer

Opening date: 9th December 2024
Closing date: 20th February 2025
Funding Amount: $40,000 - $120,000

Funds community-led projects aimed at promoting equity in cancer outcomes and experiences for all Australians.

Strong and Resilient Communities (SARC) Activity – Inclusive Communities Grants

Opening date: 17th December 2024
Closing date: 20th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $360,000

Supports vulnerable and disadvantaged people on pathways to self-reliance and empowerment through local community-driven solutions that support them to participate socially and/or economically.

Gambling Community Benefit Fund

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $100,000

Allocates funding to not-for-profit community groups to help them provide services, leisure activities and opportunities for Queensland communities.

National Pies for Local Legends

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

Supports local sporting clubs, community groups or not-for-profit organisations.

Any registered Australian community group, sporting club or not-for-profit organisation can apply. A grant of $1,000 will be awarded each month over the next 12 months, beginning in March 2024. A major grant of $10,000 will also be awarded at the end of the program.

Wildlife Acoustics Grant Program

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 15th February 2025
Funding Amount: UP to $12,000

Supports the advancement of wildlife research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation.

Motorola Solutions Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 23rd January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports organizations that offer first responder programming and technology and engineering education, and align to the Foundation’s values of accountability, innovation, impact, diversity and inclusion.

Youth Empowerment Program

Opening date: 7th January 2025
Closing date: 28th January 2025
Funding Amount: $300,000 - $1,000,000

Provides funding to organisations for programs for youth aged 10 to 17 who are engaged in, or at-risk of becoming engaged in, criminal and/or anti-social behaviour.

National Shed Development Programme (NSDP)

Opening date: 14th January 2025
Closing date: 21st February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Provides financial assistance to men’s sheds across Australia.

Paid Employment Pathways Package – WorkFoundations

Opening date: 14th January 2025
Closing date: 11th February 2025
Funding Amount: $250,000 - $750,000

Aims to fund social enterprises and businesses who can provide tailored, paid employment placements with integrated wrap around services for job seekers facing challenging barriers to employment.

Stronger Communities Programme

Opening date: 14th February 2025
Closing date: 28th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

The Stronger Communities Programme (SCP) provides grants of between $2,500 and $20,000 to community organisations and local governments for infrastructure projects that deliver social benefits for local communities.

Education

Fundraise Yourself

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides a way for you to fundraise online for a project within your school that improves educational outcomes for students.

Mazda Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: Undisclosed

Aims to fund two priority areas: supporting primary producers facing hardship and programs that address literacy and numeracy issues amongst primary school aged children.

Talk Money Financial Literacy in Action Awards

Opening date: 15th November 2024
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $2,500

Recognises and rewards teachers who inspire their students to be confident in managing money.

E.J Connellan Award

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Aims to give the opportunity to people living in Outback Australia to undertake further studies or research of a kind not otherwise readily available to them.

ANZMHA Mental Health Study Grant

Opening date: 3rd December 2024
Closing date: 26th February 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Provides funding for students enrolling in a course that leads to a mental health qualification (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters).

GLOWS Scholarships

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 24th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $55,000

Aims to attract and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to undertake study.

The Guiding Local Opportunities for Wellbeing (GLOWS) Grant Program 2024–26 offers scholarships and research grants to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, community organisations and their partners for work relating to HIV and viral hepatitis over the next three years.

Motorola Solutions Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 23rd January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports organizations that offer first responder programming and technology and engineering education, and align to the Foundation’s values of accountability, innovation, impact, diversity and inclusion.

Health

Arcare Grants Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Encourages and supports innovations that give all Australians the opportunity to age well, envisioning a community where older people are valued, supported, and thriving.

Courier-Mail Children’s Fund

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Exists to change the lives of Queensland children in need.

Consideration is only given for children throughout Queensland. Supporting a range of charitable organisations, the Fund has provided financial assistance for:
– Mobility and learning aids
– Educational equipment and assistance
– Recreational and respite programs
– New technologies
– Medical equipment.

Redkite Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides financial assistance for children, aged 18 and under, who either have cancer or have been treated for cancer.

Westfund Community Grants Program

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $3,000

Supports community organisations that inspire the principles of health and wellbeing, family and community and fit for life.

Amgen Australia Donations

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Makes donations to the healthcare and non-healthcare community to further educational, scientific, or other charitable purposes.

The Frankie Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000

Helps support kids continue or start therapy if their NDIS plan budget has run out or a therapy or service is not covered by their current NDIS plan.

Remarkable Programs

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a range of opportunities to help drive the future of Disability Tech.

ANZMHA Mental Health Study Grant

Opening date: 3rd December 2024
Closing date: 26th February 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Provides funding for students enrolling in a course that leads to a mental health qualification (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters).

Supporting People with Cancer

Opening date: 9th December 2024
Closing date: 20th February 2025
Funding Amount: $40,000 - $120,000

Funds community-led projects aimed at promoting equity in cancer outcomes and experiences for all Australians.

Motorola Solutions Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 23rd January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports organizations that offer first responder programming and technology and engineering education, and align to the Foundation’s values of accountability, innovation, impact, diversity and inclusion.

Indigenous

Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants

Opening date: 3rd June 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $120,000

Our Country Our Future

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides a wide range of assistance to Indigenous Australians including to acquire land and water-related rights, and to manage Indigenous-held land and Indigenous waters.

CAGES Foundation – Community Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports Aboriginal controlled organisations responding to an immediate need, focused on children aged under five.

GLOWS Scholarships

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 24th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $55,000

Aims to attract and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to undertake study.

The Guiding Local Opportunities for Wellbeing (GLOWS) Grant Program 2024–26 offers scholarships and research grants to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, community organisations and their partners for work relating to HIV and viral hepatitis over the next three years.

NAIDOC Local Grants

Opening date: 10th January 2025
Closing date: 20th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $25,000

Assists with the cost of activities and events being held around National NAIDOC Week (6 to 13 July 2025) that celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures, achievements and continuing contributions to our country and Australian society.

Infrastructure

Stronger Communities Programme

Opening date: 14th February 2025
Closing date: 28th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

The Stronger Communities Programme (SCP) provides grants of between $2,500 and $20,000 to community organisations and local governments for infrastructure projects that deliver social benefits for local communities.

Sports

SwimStart

Opening date: 7th November 2023
Closing date: 30th May 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $150

Supports learn to swim activities for eligible 0 to 4 year olds.

Australian Sports Foundation Fundraising

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 2nd August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a fundraising platform for all sports at all levels to help fund their sporting needs.

Sport and Recreation Recovery Grant

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: $20,000 - $1,000,000

Assists not-for-profit sport and active recreation organisations with the clean-up, repair or replacement of equipment or facilities directly damaged by an eligible disaster event and to re-establish activities.

Grassroots Cricket Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Funds Queensland community cricket club programs that will grow junior participation.

Emerging Athlete Pathways

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,600

Supports eligible young athletes, coaches and officials aged 10-18 years to progress on a development pathway by providing financial assistance to help alleviate the costs associated with attending state, national and international events.

Community Reward Program

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a sustainable fundraising platform for your local sporting club.

Local Sporting Champions

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: $500 - $750

Provides financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-18 participating in state, national or international championships.

Local Para Champions

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025

Provides financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-24 participating in state, national or international championships for athletes with a disability.

NRMA Insurance Community Cricket Grants

Opening date: 15th November 2024
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Offers grants to deserving community cricket clubs across Australia.

Roger Rasheed Sports Foundation Support

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Aims to improve the lives of children in disadvantaged areas by providing access to first-class sports facilities, coaching, equipment, and opportunities to participate in sports.

The program helps foster health, resilience, and community connections through sport.

Telstra Footy Country Grants

Opening date: 2nd December 2024
Closing date: 2nd February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

Offers grants to regional and metro clubs to help strengthen, sustain and grow local footy.

As the foundation of our great game and the heartbeat of communities, investment in local clubs is vital to ensuring everyone has access to play Aussie Rules and experience the health, social and wellbeing benefits that come with belonging to a club.

National Pies for Local Legends

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 31st January 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

Supports local sporting clubs, community groups or not-for-profit organisations.

Any registered Australian community group, sporting club or not-for-profit organisation can apply. A grant of $1,000 will be awarded each month over the next 12 months, beginning in March 2024. A major grant of $10,000 will also be awarded at the end of the program.

Transport and Roads

There are no upcoming events.

Water

There are no upcoming events.

Women

Female Founders Co-Investment Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $200,000

Supports innovative women-led startups preparing for early-stage capital raise.

Accelerating Female Founders Program – Founders

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Finds business development programs for Queensland-based female founders or leaders of innovative businesses to take their innovation driven enterprises to the next level, create connections and access opportunities.

Escaping Violence Payment Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Offers financial assistance to help those escaping domestic violence to move forward and set up a home free of violence.