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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.

Catalyst Fund

Opening date: 1st January 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: $2,500 - $15,000

Makes grants to anyone, anywhere in the world who has an early-stage idea or project that addresses pressing global challenges.

Regional Arts Fund – Quick Response Grant

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

Funds regional artists to access professional arts development and training opportunities, or organisations/community groups with small project opportunities that arise at short notice.

Gambling Community Benefit Fund

Opening date: 1st April 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $35,000

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

Petstock Foundation Grant Program

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Unspecified

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.

Queensland Pride Network Community Grants

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000 USD

Community Micro-Grants

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $300

John Villiers Trust Grants

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

Provides grants to projects that aim to improve the lives of children and youth living within rural regional and remote Queensland.

Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants

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

Drought Preparedness Grant

Opening date: 13th June 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Various

Jim’s Local Heroes Initiative

Opening date: 17th June 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $2,000

Finds and rewards community members who deserve recognition and support.

FairPlay Vouchers

Opening date: 1st July 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: $200

Frank Hall-Bentick Education Fund

Opening date: 1st July 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Assists indigenous and non-indigenous people with disability to participate in both formal and informal education programs through small financial grants

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.

Australian Wildlife Society Awards

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $5,000

Acknowledges and rewards individuals or conservation groups that work tirelessly to save Australia’s native wildlife and precious habitats, and encourages them to continue their excellent work on behalf of the community.

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.

Community Grant Program – Community Growth Grants

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 15th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $15,000

Encourages community-led initiatives to improve liveability, health and education in communities throughout regional and remote Queensland.

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.

Queensland Mental Health Commission – Sponsorship Program

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

Supports the achievement of better mental health outcomes for Queenslanders.

Community Grant Program – Community Spirit Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 15th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,000

Encourages community-led initiatives to improve liveability, health and education in communities throughout regional and remote Queensland.

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.

Variety Heart Scholarships

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Provides scholarships to children with an existing talent living with disabilities, chronic illness or financial hardship to achieve their full potential and to follow their dreams.

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.

Strengthening Rural Communities — Small & Vital

Opening date: 6th September 2024
Closing date: 5th December 2024
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.

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.

Advance your career with a women’s leadership scholarship

Opening date: 23rd September 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $6,000

Partial scholarships of $1,000 – $6,000 are available to help women in select industries participate in our world-class leadership courses.

SunSmart Shade Creation Initiative – Permanent Shade

Opening date: 23rd September 2024
Closing date: 22nd November 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $25,000

Provides grants to eligible organisations to install permanent, hard roof fixed shade structures.

National Justice Reinvestment Program

Opening date: 26th September 2024
Closing date: 13th January 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

This grant opportunity aims to support the development and delivery of community and First Nations-led justice reinvestment initiatives across Australia, by supporting:
– The development, implementation, and evaluation of local justice reinvestment strategies and activities
– Local project teams and leadership structures to undertake the work of developing, implementing and evaluating justice reinvestment strategies.

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.

Queensland Gives – General Fund

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 13th December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

Assists charities to develop their structures, systems, people and skills in order to deliver improved outcomes for the community.

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.

International Trans Fund (ITF)

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 2nd December 2024
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $50,000

Supports work that benefits the trans community.

The ITF has priorities for their grantmaking:
– Fund a diverse collection of groups, inclusive of various identities, strategies and issues, languages and regions
– Reach trans communities facing greater levels of marginalization (e.g. racism, classism, ageism, ableism, misogyny and so on)
– Support trans-led organizations who work intersectionally and whose work contributes to social and economic justice, trans movement building and the liberation of trans people.

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.

Grants to End Homelessness

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $60,000

Provides grants for seeding initiatives, services, projects, advocacy and research that will contribute to the goal of ending homelessness for women, by supporting housing first and permanent supportive housing solutions.

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.

GoldenWeb Annual Grant

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

Helps a small non-profit or community group with a free website.

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.

Mobile Network Hardening Program (MNHP)

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 20th December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $20 million

The Federal Government is continuing to strengthen the resilience of mobile network communications in regional, remote and peri-urban Australia to keep communities safer and better connected during, and after, natural disasters. Up to $20 million (GST exclusive) is available through Round 3 of the Mobile Network Hardening Program (MNHP)

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.

Commonground Grants Program

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

Offers fee reduction grants for accommodation and venue hire so that smaller NFPs can bring the team together.

Community Grants Scheme

Opening date: 3rd October 2024
Closing date: 20th December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Aims to support PCFA’s mission and strengthen the activities of Prostate Cancer Support Groups in their local areas.

Young Carer Bursary

Opening date: 8th October 2024
Closing date: 22nd November 2024
Funding Amount: $3,768

Supports young carers to return to or continue with their education.

Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science – Science Teaching Prizes

Opening date: 9th October 2024
Closing date: 17th December 2024
Funding Amount: $250,000

Awards educators with prizes for excellence in science teaching.

The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science are Australia’s most prestigious and highly regarded awards for outstanding achievements in:
– Scientific research
– Research-based innovation
– Excellence in science teaching.

Action for Women’s Health Program

Opening date: 9th October 2024
Closing date: 3rd December 2024
Funding Amount: $1,000,000 - $5,000,000

Funds organisations working to improve women’s mental and physical health.

Community Grants Program

Opening date: 10th October 2024
Closing date: 22nd November 2024
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $15,000

Supports regional and rural Australian communities create and complete local forest based projects that suits both communities and the forests’ needs.

Research Grants on Education: Small

Opening date: 10th October 2024
Closing date: 4th December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived.

The program supports budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. Applications are accepted three times per year.

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.

Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity – Food Relief

Opening date: 22nd October 2024
Closing date: 2nd December 2024
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Invites organisations to deliver services under the Families and Communities Program – Financial Wellbeing and Capability (FWC) Activity – Food Relief nationally from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030.

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.

IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program (IPAP)

Opening date: 25th October 2024
Closing date: 3rd December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $120,000

Allows philanthropists and Not-for-Profits (NFPs) to connect, and allows NFPs to demonstrate how they improve outcomes for the communities in which they operate.

Pro Bono for Purpose Grants

Opening date: 28th October 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $10,000

Offers an exciting opportunity for NFPs and charities to harness the power of PR, start a movement and create real and lasting change.

Hireup Impact Grants

Opening date: 28th October 2024
Closing date: 22nd November 2024
Funding Amount: $5,000

Funds initiatives that help Hireup clients and support workers to achieve (or make progress towards achieving) an important personal and/or professional goal.

Energex-Ergon Community Fund

Opening date: 28th October 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: UP to $10,000

Funds new ideas that prepare the community for weather events, assist recovery from impacts caused by disasters including mental health and wellbeing, infrastructure and the environment or creating safeguards against future events.

Indigenous Languages and Arts Program (ILA)

Opening date: 29th October 2024
Closing date: 25th November 2024
Funding Amount: $20,000 - $200,000

Supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to express, preserve and maintain their cultures through languages and arts activities around Australia.

Active Transport Fund

Opening date: 31st October 2024
Closing date: 13th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000,000

Provides funding for the design and construction of new or existing bicycle and walking pathways to encourage the use of active transport.

ATCO Communities Fund

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Supports community initiatives that foster Healthy, Sustainable and Prosperous Communities where ATCO operates.

SPARK Biz Grants – Women in Business

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2024
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $10,000

Helps women in business grow their profit and impact.

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.

Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) – Australian Cyber Security Strategy Challenge

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 18th December 2024
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $1,000,000

Provides small to medium sized enterprises with funding to develop innovative solutions for government policy and service delivery challenges.

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.

LiftHER Female Founders Grant Program

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 10th January 2025

Empowers women and girls in Australia and Asia to achieve their dreams and live their lives to the fullest potential.

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.

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.

Future Generation Australia Social Impact Partner

Opening date: 11th November 2024
Closing date: 9th December 2024
Funding Amount: From $180,000

Seeks to establish partnerships with non-profits to build on FGA’s social investment in children and youth at risk to date.

Preventing Tech-based Abuse of Women Grants Program

Opening date: 14th November 2024
Closing date: 16th December 2024
Funding Amount: $80,000 - $400,000

Funds projects that focus on the prevention of online harms and enhanced safety for women and their children.

Arts

Regional Arts Fund – Quick Response Grant

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

Funds regional artists to access professional arts development and training opportunities, or organisations/community groups with small project opportunities that arise at short notice.

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.

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.

OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000 USD

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.

GoldenWeb Annual Grant

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

Helps a small non-profit or community group with a free website.

Commonground Grants Program

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

Offers fee reduction grants for accommodation and venue hire so that smaller NFPs can bring the team together.

Hireup Impact Grants

Opening date: 28th October 2024
Closing date: 22nd November 2024
Funding Amount: $5,000

Funds initiatives that help Hireup clients and support workers to achieve (or make progress towards achieving) an important personal and/or professional goal.

SPARK Biz Grants – Women in Business

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2024
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $10,000

Helps women in business grow their profit and impact.

Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) – Australian Cyber Security Strategy Challenge

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 18th December 2024
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $1,000,000

Provides small to medium sized enterprises with funding to develop innovative solutions for government policy and service delivery challenges.

Community

Catalyst Fund

Opening date: 1st January 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: $2,500 - $15,000

Makes grants to anyone, anywhere in the world who has an early-stage idea or project that addresses pressing global challenges.

Gambling Community Benefit Fund

Opening date: 1st April 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $35,000

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

Petstock Foundation Grant Program

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Unspecified

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.

Queensland Pride Network Community Grants

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Community Micro-Grants

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $300

John Villiers Trust Grants

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

Provides grants to projects that aim to improve the lives of children and youth living within rural regional and remote Queensland.

Jim’s Local Heroes Initiative

Opening date: 17th June 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $2,000

Finds and rewards community members who deserve recognition and support.

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.

Australian Wildlife Society Awards

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $5,000

Acknowledges and rewards individuals or conservation groups that work tirelessly to save Australia’s native wildlife and precious habitats, and encourages them to continue their excellent work on behalf of the community.

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.

Community Grant Program – Community Growth Grants

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 15th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $15,000

Encourages community-led initiatives to improve liveability, health and education in communities throughout regional and remote Queensland.

Community Grant Program – Community Spirit Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 15th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,000

Encourages community-led initiatives to improve liveability, health and education in communities throughout regional and remote Queensland.

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.

Strengthening Rural Communities — Small & Vital

Opening date: 6th September 2024
Closing date: 5th December 2024
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.

SunSmart Shade Creation Initiative – Permanent Shade

Opening date: 23rd September 2024
Closing date: 22nd November 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $25,000

Provides grants to eligible organisations to install permanent, hard roof fixed shade structures.

National Justice Reinvestment Program

Opening date: 26th September 2024
Closing date: 13th January 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

This grant opportunity aims to support the development and delivery of community and First Nations-led justice reinvestment initiatives across Australia, by supporting:
– The development, implementation, and evaluation of local justice reinvestment strategies and activities
– Local project teams and leadership structures to undertake the work of developing, implementing and evaluating justice reinvestment strategies.

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.

Queensland Gives – General Fund

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 13th December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

Assists charities to develop their structures, systems, people and skills in order to deliver improved outcomes for the community.

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.

International Trans Fund (ITF)

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 2nd December 2024
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $50,000

Supports work that benefits the trans community.

The ITF has priorities for their grantmaking:
– Fund a diverse collection of groups, inclusive of various identities, strategies and issues, languages and regions
– Reach trans communities facing greater levels of marginalization (e.g. racism, classism, ageism, ableism, misogyny and so on)
– Support trans-led organizations who work intersectionally and whose work contributes to social and economic justice, trans movement building and the liberation of trans people.

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.

Grants to End Homelessness

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $60,000

Provides grants for seeding initiatives, services, projects, advocacy and research that will contribute to the goal of ending homelessness for women, by supporting housing first and permanent supportive housing solutions.

GoldenWeb Annual Grant

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

Helps a small non-profit or community group with a free website.

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.

Community Grants Scheme

Opening date: 3rd October 2024
Closing date: 20th December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Aims to support PCFA’s mission and strengthen the activities of Prostate Cancer Support Groups in their local areas.

Community Grants Program

Opening date: 10th October 2024
Closing date: 22nd November 2024
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $15,000

Supports regional and rural Australian communities create and complete local forest based projects that suits both communities and the forests’ needs.

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.

Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity – Food Relief

Opening date: 22nd October 2024
Closing date: 2nd December 2024
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Invites organisations to deliver services under the Families and Communities Program – Financial Wellbeing and Capability (FWC) Activity – Food Relief nationally from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030.

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.

IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program (IPAP)

Opening date: 25th October 2024
Closing date: 3rd December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $120,000

Allows philanthropists and Not-for-Profits (NFPs) to connect, and allows NFPs to demonstrate how they improve outcomes for the communities in which they operate.

Pro Bono for Purpose Grants

Opening date: 28th October 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $10,000

Offers an exciting opportunity for NFPs and charities to harness the power of PR, start a movement and create real and lasting change.

Energex-Ergon Community Fund

Opening date: 28th October 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: UP to $10,000

Funds new ideas that prepare the community for weather events, assist recovery from impacts caused by disasters including mental health and wellbeing, infrastructure and the environment or creating safeguards against future events.

Indigenous Languages and Arts Program (ILA)

Opening date: 29th October 2024
Closing date: 25th November 2024
Funding Amount: $20,000 - $200,000

Supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to express, preserve and maintain their cultures through languages and arts activities around Australia.

Active Transport Fund

Opening date: 31st October 2024
Closing date: 13th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000,000

Provides funding for the design and construction of new or existing bicycle and walking pathways to encourage the use of active transport.

ATCO Communities Fund

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Supports community initiatives that foster Healthy, Sustainable and Prosperous Communities where ATCO operates.

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.

Future Generation Australia Social Impact Partner

Opening date: 11th November 2024
Closing date: 9th December 2024
Funding Amount: From $180,000

Seeks to establish partnerships with non-profits to build on FGA’s social investment in children and youth at risk to date.

Preventing Tech-based Abuse of Women Grants Program

Opening date: 14th November 2024
Closing date: 16th December 2024
Funding Amount: $80,000 - $400,000

Funds projects that focus on the prevention of online harms and enhanced safety for women and their children.

Education

Catalyst Fund

Opening date: 1st January 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: $2,500 - $15,000

Makes grants to anyone, anywhere in the world who has an early-stage idea or project that addresses pressing global challenges.

OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000 USD

Frank Hall-Bentick Education Fund

Opening date: 1st July 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Assists indigenous and non-indigenous people with disability to participate in both formal and informal education programs through small financial grants

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.

Community Grant Program – Community Spirit Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 15th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,000

Encourages community-led initiatives to improve liveability, health and education in communities throughout regional and remote Queensland.

Advance your career with a women’s leadership scholarship

Opening date: 23rd September 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $6,000

Partial scholarships of $1,000 – $6,000 are available to help women in select industries participate in our world-class leadership courses.

Young Carer Bursary

Opening date: 8th October 2024
Closing date: 22nd November 2024
Funding Amount: $3,768

Supports young carers to return to or continue with their education.

Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science – Science Teaching Prizes

Opening date: 9th October 2024
Closing date: 17th December 2024
Funding Amount: $250,000

Awards educators with prizes for excellence in science teaching.

The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science are Australia’s most prestigious and highly regarded awards for outstanding achievements in:
– Scientific research
– Research-based innovation
– Excellence in science teaching.

Research Grants on Education: Small

Opening date: 10th October 2024
Closing date: 4th December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived.

The program supports budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. Applications are accepted three times per year.

Hireup Impact Grants

Opening date: 28th October 2024
Closing date: 22nd November 2024
Funding Amount: $5,000

Funds initiatives that help Hireup clients and support workers to achieve (or make progress towards achieving) an important personal and/or professional goal.

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.

Queensland Mental Health Commission – Sponsorship Program

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

Supports the achievement of better mental health outcomes for Queenslanders.

Community Grant Program – Community Spirit Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 15th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,000

Encourages community-led initiatives to improve liveability, health and education in communities throughout regional and remote Queensland.

Variety Heart Scholarships

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Provides scholarships to children with an existing talent living with disabilities, chronic illness or financial hardship to achieve their full potential and to follow their dreams.

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.

Action for Women’s Health Program

Opening date: 9th October 2024
Closing date: 3rd December 2024
Funding Amount: $1,000,000 - $5,000,000

Funds organisations working to improve women’s mental and physical health.

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.

Indigenous

Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants

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

Frank Hall-Bentick Education Fund

Opening date: 1st July 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Assists indigenous and non-indigenous people with disability to participate in both formal and informal education programs through small financial grants

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.

Indigenous Languages and Arts Program (ILA)

Opening date: 29th October 2024
Closing date: 25th November 2024
Funding Amount: $20,000 - $200,000

Supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to express, preserve and maintain their cultures through languages and arts activities around Australia.

Infrastructure

OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000 USD

Mobile Network Hardening Program (MNHP)

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 20th December 2024
Funding Amount: Up to $20 million

The Federal Government is continuing to strengthen the resilience of mobile network communications in regional, remote and peri-urban Australia to keep communities safer and better connected during, and after, natural disasters. Up to $20 million (GST exclusive) is available through Round 3 of the Mobile Network Hardening Program (MNHP)

Active Transport Fund

Opening date: 31st October 2024
Closing date: 13th January 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000,000

Provides funding for the design and construction of new or existing bicycle and walking pathways to encourage the use of active transport.

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.

FairPlay Vouchers

Opening date: 1st July 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: $200

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.

Transport and Roads

There are no upcoming events.

Water

Drought Preparedness Grant

Opening date: 13th June 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2024
Funding Amount: Various

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.

Advance your career with a women’s leadership scholarship

Opening date: 23rd September 2024
Closing date: 29th November 2024
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $6,000

Partial scholarships of $1,000 – $6,000 are available to help women in select industries participate in our world-class leadership courses.

Action for Women’s Health Program

Opening date: 9th October 2024
Closing date: 3rd December 2024
Funding Amount: $1,000,000 - $5,000,000

Funds organisations working to improve women’s mental and physical health.

SPARK Biz Grants – Women in Business

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2024
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $10,000

Helps women in business grow their profit and impact.

LiftHER Female Founders Grant Program

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 10th January 2025

Empowers women and girls in Australia and Asia to achieve their dreams and live their lives to the fullest potential.

Preventing Tech-based Abuse of Women Grants Program

Opening date: 14th November 2024
Closing date: 16th December 2024
Funding Amount: $80,000 - $400,000

Funds projects that focus on the prevention of online harms and enhanced safety for women and their children.