See below for a range of potential grant opportunities available for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services noting that some programs are State specific and won’t apply to all ACCHOs. Opportunities will vary over time. We aim to provide up to date and relevant grant opportunities which are available in the short to medium term.
See below for Tips and Tricks that can help you to write a successful grant proposal.
The Aged Care Capital Assistance Program provides aged care infrastructure grants aimed at maintaining or increasing access to quality aged care services in thin market settings for people:
This grant opportunity will provide grant funding for infrastructure projects across four funding streams which are primarily focused on maintaining or improving access to quality aged care services in small rural towns, remote and very remote communities and will also support specific groups of older Australians, including people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and First Nations communities.
Locations: National
Opens: 13 November 2023
Closes: 12 January 2023
Grant Type: Aged Care
Max. Grant: Refer to guidelines. Stream 4 (First Nations) $800,000 minor projects / $150,000 equipment.
Co-contribution: Unspecified
Eligibility: Must be an Australian Government approved aged care provider and meet additional eligibility criteria – refer to guidelines.
Agency: Department of Health and Aged Care
The QCF regional grants program aims to support eligible charitable organisations providing services in the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba and Darling Downs region and Northern Queensland.
Charities and causes supported may fit within, but are not limited to community wellbeing, health, arts and culture, animal welfare, children and youth, education, environment, medical research, indigenous and religion. Please check individual regional grant guidelines for grant criteria.
Locations: QLD
Closes: 15 December 2023
Grant Type: Health
Max. Grant: $30,000
Co-contribution: Unspecified
Eligibility: Charitable Organisations (QLD Only)
Agency: Queensland Gives
The objective of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants program is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and disaster-affected communities.
Locations: NSW
Opens: 27 November 2023
Closes: 18 December 2023
Grant Type: Infrastructure
Max. Grant: $250,000
Co-contribution: Encouraged
Eligibility: Not-for-profit organisations that will be responsible for operating and/or maintaining the infrastructure. (NSW Only)
Agency:Â Office of Responsible Gambling
The purpose of the NTAIC Grants Program is to promote self-determination and economic self-sufficiency of Aboriginal people living in the NT and to promote their social and cultural wellbeing. The NTAIC Grants Program aims to ensure:
There are two streams – General Grants and Innovation Grants.
Locations: NT
Opens: Always open
Closes: See agency website for funding round timings
Grant Type: Various
Max. Grant:Â General Grants – $500,000 per year (up to $1.5 million over three years).
Innovation Grants – $10 million
Co-contribution: Not specified
Eligibility: Indigenous Organisations in the NT.
Agency: NTAIC
Allows philanthropists and Not-for-Profits (NFPs) to connect, and allows NFPs to demonstrate how they improve outcomes for the communities in which they operate. Perpetual distributes around $120 million annually from the charitable trusts and endowments they manage. Many of these trusts and endowments are created with specific directions around the charities that will benefit. However, where trusts and endowments have a more flexible approach to grant making, Perpetual undertakes a rigorous application program that matches clients’ wishes with suitable organisations.
Locations: National
Opens: 26 October 2023
Closes: 8 December 2023
Grant Type: Philanthropic
Max. Grant:Â $120,000
Co-contribution: Not specified
Eligibility: Be a registered charity on the ACNC register and/or Australian Taxation Office Deductible Gift Recipient
Agency: Perpetual (Private Sector)
Assists QLD charities to develop their structures, systems, people and skills in order to deliver improved outcomes for the community. QCF’s grant making from the General Fund focuses on organisational capacity building assisting charities develop their structures, systems, people and skills in order to deliver improved outcomes. Typically, capacity building focuses on education and training, recruiting, maintaining or recognising volunteers, information technology support systems, and planning and governance which may include strategic plans, constitution reviews or board appraisals.
Locations: QLD
Opens: Currently Open
Closes: 15Â December 2023
Grant Type: Capacity Building
Max. Grant:Â $30,000
Co-contribution: Not specified
Eligibility: QLD only. Must have Deductible Gift Recipient Item 1 (DGR1) status.
Agency: Queensland Community Foundation
This Grant Opportunity will provide $2.885 million in funding annually over seven years (from 1 May 2024) to eligible Non-Government Organisations, for services, projects or programs that aim to reduce and prevent the transmission and minimise the impacts of STIs and BBVs in the broader Canberra community. Funding is available across six streams:
– Clinical services, Prevention and harm reduction, Support and advocacy, Health promotion and education, Community development and engagement, Workforce training & development and clinical practice support.
Locations: ACT
Opens: 7 November 2023
Closes: 19 December 2023
Grant Type: Health
Max. Grant: Unspecified
Co-contribution: Unspecified
Eligibility: Various, must be incorporated. ACT Only
Agency: ACT Health Directorate
The program addresses the urgent need to allow families with deceased loved ones who were insured under a Youpla Group funeral expenses policy to mourn and conduct Sorry Business with the dignity that had been intended. The program will pay a grant in place of a funeral benefit that would otherwise have been paid in response to the death of a person covered by a Youpla Group policy, where the policy was active on or after 1 April 2020, prior to the Youpla Group’s collapse.
Locations: NSW
Opens: 7 September 2023
Closes: 30 June 2024 (extended)
Grant Type: Funeral Expenses Targeted
Max. Grant: $20,000
Co-contribution: Not specified
Eligibility:
To be eligible you must be the expected recipient of a funeral benefit of a Youpla Group policy, where the policy:
Agency: The Treasury Department
This program aims to support procedural GPs who work in rural and remote areas to:
This helps ensure people in rural and remote areas have access to highly skilled health professionals. Helps cover the cost of professional development for procedural general practitioners (GPs) who work in rural and remote areas. The RPGP provides grants of up to $32,000 to rural GPs and locums who provide procedural services. This helps with the cost of attending continuing professional development activities, to maintain or increase their procedural and emergency medicine skills (including emergency mental health).
Locations: National
Opens: Always open
Closes: N/A
Grant Type:Â Health
Max. Grant: $32,000
Co-contribution: Not specified
Eligibility: Must be a GP working in a MMM 3-7 region. Please see section 6 of the Guidelines.
Agency: Department of Health and Aged Care
Assists any Indigenous corporation whose property has been directly affected by a declared natural disaster, such as a flood, bushfire, or cyclone.
The funding can be used for immediate clean up your property, work to make your property safe and purchase plant and equipment to assist with recovery efforts.
Please note: the funding does not cover repair and replacement of items that are covered under existing insurance policies unless there is a clear and urgent health and safety risk to humans and livestock or any work that has already occurred.
Locations: National
Opens: Always open
Closes:Â N/A
Grant Type: Health
Max. Grant: $20,000
Co-contribution: Unspecified
Eligibility:Â Indigenous corporations (incorporated) may be eligible for assistance through the program if:
Agency: Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation
This program aims to enable the implementation of new innovative primary care service delivery models, and determine whether these models improve the attractiveness of rural practice and lead to better delivery of health services to communities in rural and remote Australia. The objectives of the grant opportunity are:
– To work with small connected rural and remote communities to develop a new model of care to provide primary healthcare in areas of market failure or workforce need
– To test new ways of delivering primary healthcare services across small connected rural and remote communities in areas of market failure or workforce need
– To test the key elements of effectiveness and sustainability of these models of care and determine their applicability in similar rural and remote communities nationally.
Locations: National
Opens: 8 November 2023
Closes: 15 December 2023
Grant Type: Health
Max. Grant: $1.6 million over 5 years.
Co-contribution: Unspecified
Eligibility: Various including ATSI Corporations and Not-For-Profits. MMM 3-7 regions.
Agency: Department of Health and Aged Care
Seeks to fund initiatives delivered by organisations supporting people with disabilities, or otherwise marginalised individuals primarily with the objective to secure employment pathways. The Foundation seeks to identify and support those organisations which have well thought out projects that seek to help vulnerable members of the community to overcome the challenging circumstances in which they find themselves.
Locations: National
Opens: 19 February 2024
Closes: 7 June 2024
Grant Type: Disabilities/Employment
Max. Grant: $100,000
Co-contribution: Required
Eligibility: Not-for-profits
Agency:Â Ian Potter Foundation
The aims of the Stolen Generations Collective Healing Grants are:
Locations: National
Closes: 19 December 2023
Grant Type: Healing
Max. Grant: $40,000
Co-contribution: Unspecified
Eligibility: Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations
Agency:Â The Healing Foundation
The objective of the program is to provide funding for CHSP service providers for the actual cost of increasing wages and associated on-costs from 1 July 2023 to meet minimum award wage requirements. The intended outcome of the program is CHSP service providers pass on to eligible aged care workers the award wage increases of up to 15 per cent from 1 July 2023.
Locations: National
Opens: Currently Open
Closes: 30 November 2023
Grant Type: Aged Care
Max. Grant: Varied – Refer Grant Guidelines
Co-contribution: Not specified
Eligibility: Various, including ATSI Corporation and must be An existing Commonwealth Home Support service provider
Agency: Department of Health and Aged Care
Provides funding to support community infrastructure such as a multipurpose community hub or a service for an eligible community group. The objective of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants program is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and disaster-affected communities.
Locations: NSW
Opens: 27 November 2023
Closes: 18 December 2023
Grant Type: Infrastructure
Max. Grant:Â $250,000
Co-contribution: Encouraged
Eligibility: NSW Only. Not-for-profit organisations that will be responsible for operating and/or maintaining the infrastructure
Agency: NSW Office of Responsible Gambling
NIAA has been allocated $190 million over four years (2022-23 to 2025-26), to support Community Sector Organisations (CSOs) already receiving an Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) grant for an eligible activity. The purpose of this funding is to support these organisations at need of funding supplementation due to additional staff wages pressures and high inflations rates.
Locations: National
Opens: 12 May 2023
Closes: 30 June 2026
Grant Type: CSO Support
Max. Grant: Unspecified
Co-contribution: Variable – see section 3.1 of Guidelines
Eligibility: Complex – see sections 2 and 4 of the guidelines. The additional funding is only to be provided to CSOs which were already receiving an IAS grant when the measure was announced, and which may be managing financial sustainability issues as a result of the Fair Work Commission’s minimum wage decision and/or higher inflation outcomes.
Agency: National Indigenous Australians Agency
The intended outcomes of this grant opportunity are:
Contributing to building a strong and sustainable First Nations community-controlled sector delivering high quality services to meet the needs of First Nations people in Central Australia.
Locations: NT
Opens:
12 October 2023 for assessment cycle 2
Closes:
5 January 2023 for assessment cycle 2
Grant Type: Community/Justice
Max. Grant: $4.75 million over four years.
Co-contribution: Not specified
Eligibility: Community-led initiative must be based in the Central Australia area in the Northern Territory, as described by the Northern Territory government.
Agency: Attorney-General’s Department
Enables eligible organisations in the Northern Territory to purchase surplus ex-government vehicles. This program aims to improve the capacity of not-for-profit organisations to provide services, leisure activities and opportunities to Northern Territorians.
Locations: NT
Opens: 1 July 2023
Closes: 31 August 2023
Grant Type: Community Support
Max. Grant: Not specified
Co-contribution: Not specified
Eligibility: Northern Territory Only. Must be a NT based non-profit community organisation.
Agency: NT Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade
Aims to support projects run by Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations which offer a direct and noticeable benefit to the Noongar community.
Locations: WA
Opens: N/A
Closes: 20 January 2024
Grant Type:Â Community
Max. Grant: $100,000
Co-contribution: Not specified
Eligibility: Grants will be made to incorporated, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations that are based and delivered within Noongar Community
Agency: Noongar Charitable Trust
This program gives small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia the opportunity to access funds for a broad range of initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities.
The objectives of the program are to:
Sustain local remote, rural and regional organisations and their work.
Locations: National
Opens: 8 September 2023
Closes:Â 4 December 2023
Grant Type: Community
Max. Grant: $50,000
Co-contribution: Unspecified
Eligibility: Not-for-profit organisation with either an Incorporation Certificate and/or an ABN – project must benefit communities in remote, rural or regional Australia.
Agency: The Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal
Writing a successful grant proposal often requires a strategic approach which communicates your organisation’s mission, needs, and goals in a clear and compelling way. To help you write a winning grant proposal, here are some tips and tricks to consider:
By following these fundamental points, you’ll be well on your way to writing a successful grant proposal that stands out from the rest. Remember, the key is to communicate your organisation’s mission and goals in a clear and compelling way that resonates with the funder’s priorities and demonstrates the impact of your work.
If you require any assistance or have any queries regarding the grant opportunities, please contact: sectorsupport@naccho.org.au