Charities, social enterprises or organisations with a charitable purpose can apply for a grant of up to $10,000 to fund local projects aiming to do one or more of the following:
- Readiness: help communities (people, environments, infrastructure) prepare for natural disasters
- Recovery: help communities, landscapes and fauna rebuild and rehabilitate after natural disasters
- Future-proofing: reduce the risk of future natural disasters by cutting a community’s carbon emissions.
Prioritised funding areas
- Readiness: help communities (people, environments, infrastructure) prepare for natural disasters
- Preparedness and resilience tools and trainings for households, communities and businesses
- Disaster response tools and equipment
- Future proofing community infrastructure
- Mental health and wellbeing programs that prepare people for natural disasters
- Future-proofing natural environments
- Future-proofing wildlife
- Recovery: help communities, landscapes and fauna rebuild and rehabilitate after natural disasters
- Initiatives that rebuild community cohesion after a natural disaster
- Rebuilding community infrastructure
- Community recovery planning
- Mental health and wellbeing recovery
- Rehabilitation of natural environments
- Wildlife recovery and rehabilitation
- Future-proofing: reduce the risk of future natural disasters by cutting a community’s carbon emissions
- Food cooperates
- Urban greening
- Efficient waste recovery and recycling
- Low-carbon transport and supporting infrastructure
Projects, programs or initiatives must be focused on one or more of the program’s focus areas.
Some examples include:
- Emergency response equipment for community service organisations
- Rebuilding or future proofing community infrastructure
- Community preparedness tools and training
- Mental health and wellbeing programs (including telephone and online services)
- Wildlife recovery support in areas impacted by natural disasters
- Energy storage solutions, solar panels and batteries to mitigate climate risk and future natural disasters
- Reducing communities carbon footprint
- Strengthening the environment to be more resilient to natural disasters
- Temporary infrastructure and housing (small housing)
- Community cohesion and resilience programs
Grants may be available for initiatives such as:
- education
- training
- emergency systems
- preparedness plans
- mental health support
- infrastructure
- equipment
- business resilience
- household resilience
- urban greening
- biodiversity protection
- reducing climate risk
- …and more.
Funding Types
There are two funding types available;
- Community Grants of up to $10,000, from a total pool of $1 million.
- The program has an additional $200,000 available in impact grants to be awarded to local projects that can be scaled or replicated in other communities and locations to help people, places, wildlife or the environment. Whole-of-organisation NAB votes will decide Impact Grant recipients for each Round. There can be up to four $25,000 Impact Grants awarded per round..
An idea for Junee Shire’s Village Halls?
Perhaps the NAB Foundation Community Grants program, in conjunction with Junee Community Power’s Circular Fund, could be suitable for funding to build energy resilience in the Community and Village Halls by installing Solar Panels and Battery Reservoirs to provide power to the Halls (and perhaps the surrounding community) during natural disasters.
Apply for NAB Foundation Community Grants
Application close February 28, 2023 and successful grantees will be notified in March 2023.