Grants & Opportunities

The Ballarat Women's Fund Grants support initiatives that create long-term benefits for women and the wider community in Ballarat. It focuses on primary prevention and early intervention initiatives addressing family violence, promoting gender equality, and improving women's participation, opportunity, and inclusion by addressing systemic barriers.

Eligible volunteers and life members can receive a rebate on their Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund liability.

This stream provides grants for planning and pre-construction work that creates additional kindergarten places for 3 and 4-year-olds across Victoria.

The BushBank program provides opportunities for private landowners to restore and protect native vegetation on their land.

This grants stream provides funding for projects that create additional kindergarten places for 3 and 4-year-olds by building new, or expanding existing, infrastructure.

$15 million for co-funded projects to establish or expand industrial sites, including water or power supply, sewerage facilities, road networks and technologies such as NBN connections.

Helps schools manage high-risk trees on their grounds. We also provide financial help to schools to plant native trees that replace any high-risk trees removed.

The Building Fund for Non-Government Schools will allocate $30 million for Islamic schools. Applications are open until this allocation is exhausted.

Grants and programs

The foundation aims to enhance the quality of life, resilience, and development of the Jewish community in Victoria and Israel through grants that support immediate and long-term needs, build capacity, and foster long-term change. Funding is provided for projects enriching health, welfare, education, and arts and cultural activities within the Jewish community.

This program supports projects in theatre, dance, music, and visual arts that aim to strengthen and enrich the community, promote education, innovation, and audience development, and extend cultural opportunities. It also provides funding for catalogs, commissions, exhibitions, publications, and symposia.

The Gandel Foundation provides grants to support education, arts, and community development initiatives, with a focus on young adults aged 16-24.

A youth recognition award for academic achievement in Legal Studies, providing a grant to the highest achiever in Legal Studies Units 1 & 2 from secondary schools in Hume.

Studio space for artists at the Convent precinct

The Environment Grants Program funds projects dedicated to conserving land and threatened species, protecting the integrity of water resources management, and advocating for climate action. It also co-funds initiatives that enable and empower communities and First Peoples to safeguard land, habitats, and ecosystems.

These grants support initiatives focused on sports participation.

This grant supports innovative projects, such as those delivering nutritious school lunches and cooking programs for children and families in Ballarat.

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Provides grants to charities across causes like mental health, social inclusion, food security, and environmental sustainability.

Flagship Grants are leadership-type grants providing significant, extended funding for ambitious projects that deliver transformative impact in priority areas, with partners proactively identified by the foundation.

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A program helping young people with care or youth justice experience, and those in Education First Youth Foyers, access vocational education and training with tuition fees waived under Skills First.

Providing mental health support to Victorians dealing with the challenges of running a small business to help them navigate through the impacts of COVID-19.

Support is available for businesses affected by drought in East Gippsland and Wellington Shires.

Free 45-minute business advice session to plan, start or grow your business. A business expert can answer your questions and provide an action plan to get you started.