Grants & Opportunities

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.

The Aboriginal Sport Participation Grant Program provides grants to assist First Nations communities in Victoria to participate in Aboriginal sporting carnivals, buy sports uniforms and equipment, as well as funding for travel and accommodation expenses for athletes to compete in state and national competitions.

In the 2024-25 Budget, the Australian Government provided funding to support the digital ability and literacy of First N...

The objectives of the grant opportunity are to provide dedicated and targeted support for individual and small business ...

The purpose of the ACCO Grant Round is to provide capital grants to high-quality not-for-profit ACCOs to undertake const...

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

Grants supported by BHP for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to pursue professional, cultural, or personal development opportunities, including business development.

Heat transfer and fluid flow in geomaterials: Physics-inspired AI framework. Processes involving fluid flow or heat transfer are of critical importance in engineering applications (e.g., in dams, geothermal systems, oil & gas production). Though largely overlooked, microstructural features control these processes in geomaterials. This project aims to exploit advances in high-resolution 4D imaging to extract essential microstructural information to: 1) identify new parameters that better capture pore and particle properties, connectivities and pathways, and 2) develop advanced predictive analytics tools. This will improve fundamental understanding of the link between microstructure and fluid and heat flows at the engineering scale, and provide predictive tools to reduce risk and costs to industry.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 0905 - Civil Engineering. Lead: Prof Guillermo Narsilio

Making Australia resilient to airborne infection transmission. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that basic questions regarding how to minimise the risk of airborne infection transmission for any respiratory viruses remain unanswered, despite their frequency and huge social and economic costs. Therefore, this project aims to expand scientific knowledge and develop practical tools to improve the resilience of Australian indoor environments against airborne transmission of respiratory viruses. The outcomes of the project conducted by a multidisciplinary international team of collaborators will include: (i) quantitative knowledge on virus-laden aerosols from human expiration; and (ii) exposure and infection risk models and their application to typical indoor building and transport scenarios.. Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 1117 - Public Health and Health Services. Lead: Prof Lidia Morawska

Sustaining intensive agriculture through droughts and floods. This project aims to develop state-of-the-art conceptual and numerical models of river-soil-groundwater interactions to address complex and persistent questions on water sustainability in the Lower Burdekin Delta, Queensland, where groundwater pumping to irrigate sugarcane has been supplemented by artificial recharge for over 50 years. This project expects to deliver new knowledge of critical aquifer processes to inform the scheme operation, the largest in the country. Expected outcomes include ground-breaking management plans for the aquifer-replenishment scheme. Anticipated benefits involve balancing the needs of agriculture and the protection of pristine environments, including groundwater discharge to the Great Barrier Reef. . Scheme: Linkage Projects. Field: 0406 - Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience. Lead: Prof Adrian Werner

Developing novel two-dimensional hybrid nanostructures for renewable energy. This project aims to develop novel two-dimensional (2D) hybrid nanostructures with new physical and chemical properties. This innovation intends to address the critical challenges of control functionalisation of 2D hybrid nanostructures: essential to understanding the potential of nanomaterials in key applications of energy generation. Expected outcomes include scalable technology to produce functional 2D nanomaterials and hybrid nanostructures to accelerate research to advanced materials and frontier material manufacturing technologies. This project will provide significant social and economic benefits to Australia in the growth of sectors in advanced materials, energy generation, and advanced manufacturing.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 0912 - Materials Engineering. Lead: Prof Weiwei Lei

Scalable and Lightweight On-Device Recommender Systems. This project aims to address the resource-intensive and non-resilient nature of existing cloud-based personalised recommendation services. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the intersection of on-device machine learning and recommender systems. The expected outcomes include a novel auto-deployment platform that can efficiently customise a model for each user device's configuration, supporting on-device recommendation and model updates with tiny computational footprints. The benefits of these outcomes will position Australia at the forefront of AI and give numerous businesses the tools needed to deploy innovative business systems with a secure and cost-effective advantage.. Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 4605 - Data Management and Data Science. Lead: Dr Tong Chen

Under the IAS, the Agency considers grant proposals that address a need for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people...

Under the IAS, the Agency considers grant proposals that address a need for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people...

The ILA Program supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to express, conserve and maintain their cultures through...

These invitation-only programs provide grant funding to innovative NGOs, think tanks, and national and international institutions to address root causes of systemic sustainability challenges in natural resource governance, environmental resilience, and education equity.

This program supports initiatives that build and disseminate best practice tools, research, and training to establish a strength-based policy framework for Indigenous-led nation building.

The BHP Foundation provides grant funding to innovative NGOs, think tanks, and national and international institutions to address systemic sustainability challenges in areas like natural resource governance, environmental resilience, education equity, and Indigenous peoples' self-determination. Applications are by invitation only.

Scholarships specifically for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students to support their education at Pymble Ladies' College.

The objectives of this grant opportunity are to provide financial assistance to support: •established regional, rural or...

The objective of the grant is to provide funding which will then be used by the United Stated Department of Defense to d...

This grant enhances physical, educational, and mental well-being by providing opportunities for community members, from youth to the elderly, to engage in positive and developmental activities. Specifically for community sporting clubs, it funds equipment, uniforms, and training camps (including travel and accommodation).

Annual education support for Prep to Year 6 students from the five Traditional Owner Groups, covering book packs, uniforms, school fees and equipment. Requires report cards and school attendance confirmation.

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.