Grants & Opportunities

Healing at Home on Country provides Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and for-profit Aboriginal businesses an opportunity to support culturally safe pathways for Aboriginal Adults returning home to their families and communities.

Grants are available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students enrolled with any tertiary institutions located in NSW. Applicants must be enrolled in study and demonstrate that they are in financial hardship to access the grants.

Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) — the National Indigenous Australians Agency's primary federal funding programme for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Funds remote and regional community development, capability building, economic participation, jobs and social enterprise. Pty Ltd entities eligible. Multiple streams including Jobs Land and Economy, Children and Schooling, Safety and Wellbeing, and Culture and Capability. Goods on Country fits the Jobs Land and Economy stream as a First Nations social enterprise delivering essential household goods to remote Aboriginal communities.

This program provides annual grants to organisations for activities that advance legal education for the community, disseminate legal information, and improve access to legal services in Western Australia.

The Protecting Our Places program encourages and empowers Aboriginal communities to protect, conserve and restore landscapes and waterways important to them.

This program aims to support regional waste groups to undertake education activities to reduce the hazards associated with the disposal of a range of potentially harmful products used in households which cannot be disposed of in kerbside bins.

The $50 million NSW Sustainable Communities Program Business and Industry Round will invest in projects that improve business and industry sustainability, retain and create jobs and provide lasting economic growth for local communities.

Funding will support Aboriginal families to create strong home learning environments and boost participation of children aged 0–5 in culturally safe early education, improving development and strengthening pathways to school.

The Disaster Ready Fund Round 4 is open for applications from eligible applicants delivering disaster resilience and mitigation projects.

This grant funds a single statewide provider to help older people in supported accommodation understand and exercise their rights through free, independent information, advice, advocacy and education.

Support for collaborative projects that deliver meaningful social, cultural, recreational, or environmental outcomes

Support social enterprises to purchase capability building services to be more efficient and effective in delivering social benefits to vulnerable Australians. Strong representation from First Nations enterprises

This grant is open to Aboriginal people who have saved up at least $1,000 towards their deposit and that are in the process of building or buying their home.

This grant is open to Aboriginal people who are social housing tenants or private tenants and who have saved up at least $1,000 towards their deposit and are in the process of purchasing a home.

The Program will be offered to those new and emerging Aboriginal Governance Groups not already participating in the LDM Program and will provide capacity funding to those Groups enabling them to undertake community engagement and consultation.

The NSW Closing the Gap Partnership Ad Hoc Grant Round provides funding by invitation only to support initiatives identified under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap

LDM is an initiative of OCHRE: the NSW Government’s community-focused plan for Aboriginal affairs. LDM seeks to improve the relationship between government and Aboriginal people through agreement making on service delivery issues.

The purpose of the Minister’s Discretionary Fund (MDF) is to provide one-off grant funding at the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty’s discretion, to support Aboriginal people and communities across NSW.

Support initiatives to improve services and outcomes for sections of the community that need improved transport.

Targeted funding for programs supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people's mental health and cultural wellbeing

The Healing at Home on Country, Aboriginal Elders & Mentors Grant Program funds culturally safe, community-led initiatives that support healing, rehabilitation, and reintegration for Aboriginal people leaving custody in NSW. It aims to provide Aboriginal Elders or mentors to support Aboriginal people on parole or post-release, deliver culturally appropriate health, wellbeing, healing or mentoring programs, and support post-release transition, reintegration and connection to family, community and culture.

This grant program, known as the First Nations Clean Energy Advice Grants, supports First Nations communities in Australia to access expert advice and build skills for participating in clean energy projects. Its purpose is to ensure First Nations peoples' knowledge and needs are central to the clean energy transformation, enabling informed decision-making and fostering self-determination in the transition to net zero emissions.

Funds initiatives supporting economic equity, safety, and justice for women and girls.

Funds the establishment of micro-businesses in remote Aboriginal communities.