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.
- Prizes, from a total prize pool of $200,000 for recipients of Community Grants where the project intends to have long-term social or environmental impact. This funding aims to support grantees replicate the project in other areas, scale it or measuring the impact. Applications can’t be submitted for prizes only.
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
Applications for Round 2, 2022 open on March 1, 2022 and close August 31, 2022. Successful grantees will be notified in October 2022.
The application form for grants of up to $10,000 will ask questions about the nature of the project, program or initiative, how it aligns with the grant focus areas (listed above), and how the funds will be used.
Questions within the application form will also determine if your project, program or initiative is eligible to be considered for an extra prize from the $200,000 prize pool, on top of the $10,000 grant. If eligible, the form will direct you to additional questions about the intended social or environmental impact of your work. Applications can’t be submitted for prizes only.