Grants & Opportunities

Funding for local organisations in Pilbara communities supporting education, Indigenous capacity building, youth, healthy living, community safety and environmental initiatives. Open to not-for-profits, sporting and recreation clubs.

Grants for groups supporting Western Australian children in need or causes aligned with Foundation funding guidelines. Accepted year-round, assessed May and November.

The Impact Leadership Program funds leadership development for individuals in regional Australia, aiming to build social resilience and support change-making. It covers immersive learning, travel, and expert coaching. The program seeks to strengthen community social infrastructure and networks.

Projects in the Inner North that support community members into employment and address employment barriers

Provides grants for essential school items including books, stationery, uniforms, shoes, IT equipment, VCAL/VET levies, and camp levies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in Catholic or Independent schools in Victoria. Priority given to Health Care Card/Pension Card holders.

Funding for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander staff with projects focusing on improving healthcare access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and community

Grants of $10,000-$20,000 to not-for-profit organisations with DGR Item 1 status providing direct support to disadvantaged students including school uniforms, books, stationery, digital access, mentoring, tutoring, and educational programs

A Melbourne community education event offering practical information, support, and connection for people living with Parkinson's and their carers. Ticketed event.

Grants provided to groups supporting Western Australian children in need or causes that align with the Foundation’s Funding Guidelines.

Grants are open to not-for-profit organisations in the Mackay region for charitable projects addressing the help, aid, relief, or support of persons in distress in Mackay and the surrounding districts. Applications are generally preferred if they address poverty, sickness, distress, misfortune, destitution, helplessness, or improve educational, health, welfare, religious, environmental, family, and cultural organizations.

Annual grant program funding nonprofit partners working in environment, wildlife, equality, and community development. Grants range from $5,000 to $50,000.

A composition competition celebrating sacred music, creativity and faith for young and emerging composers, with finalist works performed at Bishopscourt hosted by the Archbishop of Melbourne and the Melbourne Anglican Foundation.

Scholarships for students demonstrating outstanding potential, commitment, and values aligned with the College, opening in September 2025 and closing in March 2026.

Young people shaping livelihoods across three generations. This proposal for a third cohort to the Life Patterns longitudinal study aims to investigate how in a context of technological and structural change a new generation of young Australians builds livelihood-resilience, keeping the focus on those elements that have proven to be enabling for previous generations. The project aims to generate new knowledge about the influences of education, work, housing, relationships, wellbeing on positive trajectories. Expected outcomes of this project include systematic evidence and a new holistic livelihood-resilience framework for analysing youth trajectories. This project should provide significant benefits to the national response supporting positive youth transitions through education and work.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 1608 - Sociology. Lead: Prof Johanna Wyn

The pull-out capacity of a newly developed grouted soil nailing system. The project aims to develop a new reliable and efficient grouted soil nail system for improving the performance of loose soft soils. Important applications of the research include the mitigation of landslides, which pose a major threat to communities and infrastructure worldwide. Laboratory small scale experiments and numerical analyses will be carried out to optimize the grouting efficiency and enhance the pull-out resistance between the grout and surrounded soil in the soil nail system. This integrated project will provide a valuable tool for engineers who wish to stabilize loose fill slopes or soft grounds in Australia and worldwide.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 0905 - Civil Engineering. Lead: Prof Shanyong Wang

Why do galaxies stop forming stars? This project aims to use the most powerful radio and optical telescopes in the world to identify the mechanisms driving the quenching of star formation in the most massive structures in the Universe. This research expects to answer some of the fundamental questions identified by the international astronomy community regarding how galaxies form and evolve, how star formation proceeds and why nearly half of the galaxies in the local Universe have stopped forming stars. It will forge strong links with international partners, strengthen Australian expertise in a critical area of astronomical research, offer an ideal platform for accelerating the training of students in STEM and contribute to public outreach work.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 0201 - Astronomical and Space Sciences. Lead: Prof Luca Cortese

Juungambala: More-than-human agreement making with/as Gumbaynggirr Country. This project aims to develop & model Indigenous-led land practices, protocols & more-than-human agreements between Gumbaynggirr Custodians, non-Gumbaynggirr people & Country to enhance Australia’s capacity to respond to disruptive environmental change through Juungambala, setting things right. This project expects to generate new knowledge in Indigenous-led, Country-led environmental practice by working with inter-species communications (koalas, whales, plants) & innovative songline mapping. Intended outcomes include enhanced stakeholder capacities, intercultural & intergenerational learnings. Benefits include enriched relationships with Country, nurturing of songlines & biodiversity corridors, & development of environmental best practice.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 0502 - Environmental Science and Management. Lead: Dr Paul Hodge

Development of drought tolerant, high protein legume for arid Australia. The aim of this research is to demonstrate the molecular basis of a non-proteinogenic amino acid toxin accumulation by using genomics and genome editing to produce a non-transgenic, protein rich legume. The significance of the outcomes will be a fundamental understanding of how non-proteinogenic amino acids are metabolised in plants and an inexpensive, high-protein feed for the pork and chicken industries thereby reducing production costs and increasing profitability. The outcomes from the research are fundamental knowledge of non-proteinogenic amino acid metabolism and turnkey approach to identify, engineer, test and produce value added crops. The benefits of the research are a multi-purpose crop for Australian crop and animal producers.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 0703 - Crop and Pasture Production. Lead: A/Prof Iain Searle

Digging deeper to improve yield stability. This project aims to provide innovative breeding solutions that harness the ‘hidden’ part of the plant, roots, to support the development of more productive crops in the face of climate variability. The project expects to generate new insights into the biology and genetics of root development in barley, a model cereal crop, by applying cutting-edge genome editing, phenotyping and genomics technologies. Anticipated outcomes include novel methodologies to accelerate breeding for diverse production environments, with direct applications in barley, and other major cereals including wheat and oats. This should provide significant economic and social benefits to the Australian grains industry through yield stability amidst climate variability.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 0703 - Crop and Pasture Production. Lead: Prof Lee Hickey

Outfoxing the fox: new cost-effective ways to protect threatened species. This project aims to address the damage caused by invasive foxes by applying new methods of protection for threatened species. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the areas of conservation biology and invasive species management by comparing the effectiveness of fox control strategies for improving the population viability of declining freshwater turtles. Expected outcomes of this project include a community-based conservation model that prevents turtle extinctions in south-eastern Australia at considerable cost savings. Significant benefits include improved management of the impacts of invasive species, and restoration of ecosystem services provided by the scavenging role of freshwater turtles for maintaining water quality.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 0502 - Environmental Science and Management. Lead: A/Prof James Van Dyke

An early warning system for police workplace health and performance. This project aims to build a comprehensive organisational model of police workplace health and performance. This project answers the call for immediate organisational reform of police workplaces resulting from an Australian national study (2018) and Australian Senate Inquiry (2019). Police experience harm that must be addressed through organisational improvements, leading to more efficient policing. In the first study of its kind, this project will develop a practical early warning system that promotes strategic and front-line leadership capability of Australian police agencies in workplace health and performance. It will allow better identification of risk, resource allocation and tracking of these critical issues in policing.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 1602 - Criminology. Lead: Dr Jacqueline Drew

Restoring diverse native vegetation using drone-based precision seeding . This project aims to make drone technology a viable solution for scaling up the restoration of native vegetation on degraded land. By integrating new research in plant ecology, microbiology and environmental economics the project aims to fill key knowledge gaps about the viability and application of drones in restoration. Expected outcomes are world-first research into the delivery of beneficial soil microbes using drones and the first assessment globally of the cost-effectiveness of drone restoration utilizing data from spatial analysis and extensive field trials. This should provide wide-ranging benefits for local land managers restoring remote degraded land and aid in reversing the cumulative effects of habitat loss on biodiversity. . Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 0602 - Ecology. Lead: Prof Rachael Gallagher

Towards 'zero hunger': improving food relief services in Australia. This project aims to improve the effectiveness of the food relief sector in meeting the needs of >5m Australians experiencing food insecurity annually. Following an innovative co-design process with sector stakeholders and their clients, this project investigates food relief service models that satisfy emergency needs as well as address root causes of food insecurity. Expected outcomes include tested best-practice guidelines and auditing tools for improving, monitoring and evaluating food relief services. These will not only assist >2,500 volunteer-run organisations to deliver more nutritious foods to more people, through a more dignified, fairer and diversified service, but map a pathway for clients out of food insecurity.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 1605 - Policy and Administration. Lead: Prof Svetlana Bogomolova

Understanding and Addressing Informal Voting in Victoria. Victoria's informal vote rate is high and rising. In order to combat the problem of hundreds of thousands of 'lost votes' at Victorian state and local government elections we must first understand it. This collaboration with the Victorian Electoral Commission addresses the problem at both state and local levels over 3 election periods using 4 distinct studies. We combine experimental data, aggregate-level data and individual-level data to provide a thorough and multi-dimensional picture of informal voting. We will then propose remedies to be trialled and assessed. Taken together, our studies will represent the first multi-dimensional analysis of informality to be conducted in any Western democracy. . Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 1606 - Political Science. Lead: Prof Lisa Hill

Sparking Imagination Education: Transforming inequality in schools. This project will produce an Imagination Education Pedagogical Framework for use by teachers in schools. Imagination is recognised as beneficial for diverse groups of young people who experience educational inequality. This collaboration will support access to prominent industry insights on methods for using imagination practices to enhance educational equity. Using co-design with AIME and Social Ventures Australia, it will investigate how these insights can be translated to school contexts to enrich Australian schooling in an environment under intensifying external pressures. The outcomes of this project will support national education agendas for embedding twenty-first century skills of imagination in Australian schooling.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 1608 - Sociology. Lead: Prof Valerie Harwood