Key information
- Status: Closed
- Grant amount: From $1 to $500,000
- Application opened: 11 December 2024
- Application closed: 18 February 2025, 5:00 pm
Program objective
In our research and community consultation, we have heard that longer-term, place-based partnerships are needed both to allow time for social change, measuring that change, and reaching whole-of-community saturation. Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) wants to measure the attitudinal changes of program participants towards issues of violence as well as related issues (e.g. gender inequality) over a period of three years to ensure the efficacy of the grant program as well as individual grantees.
This program is funded and administered by Department of Communities and Justice.
Eligibility
Who can apply
All applicants are required to meet the following eligibility criteria:
- be an eligible legal entity located in NSW, including:
- Local government organisations, including:
- NSW local councils operating under the Local Government Act 1993 (LG Act)
- Joint Organisations (s400O of the LG Act)
- County Councils (s383 of the LG Act)
- Regional Organisations of Councils (which are voluntary groupings of councils).
- Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO) – these Applicants will be required to provide documentation to support their ACCO status
- Incorporated organisation registered and approved as a not-for-profit body by NSW Fair Trading. Not-for-profit organisations will be considered eligible, if they are:
- incorporated organisations that are registered and approved as not-for-profit bodies by NSW Fair Trading
- not-for profit companies limited by guarantee, registered in NSW (must have ACNC registration and/or DGR status)
- Indigenous Corporations (must be registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations)
- NSW Local Aboriginal Land Councils
- religious organisations operating in NSW
- NSW non-government organisations established under their own Act of Parliament.
- be able to enter into a grant funding agreement with Department of Communities and Justice
- have an Australian bank account
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- have appropriate insurance; this must include but is not limited to a minimum of $10 million Public Liability Insurance
- address the NSW National Redress Scheme sanctions (included in this template),
Please note: Only eligible EOI applicants who are assessed and recommended will be invited to submit an application for the Stage 2 Full Grant Application assessment process.
Types of projects funded under this grant
In our research and community consultation, we have heard that longer-term, place-based partnerships are needed both to allow time for social change, measuring that change, and reaching whole-of-community saturation. Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) wants to measure the attitudinal changes of program participants towards issues of violence as well as related issues (e.g. gender inequality) over a period of three years to ensure the efficacy of the grant program as well as individual grantees.
When the project can start and end
The project should be started by 1 June 2025 and the project must be completed by 30 June 2028.
Most recent recipients
What your application needs to include
Each applicant, as part of an application response, must confirm that they meet the eligibility criteria.
Applicants that do not address the eligibility criteria in full may be excluded from the application process at the department's discretion.
After the application is submitted
Successful applications will be decided by: Minister Harrison
Stage 1 – EOI application
Expressions of Interest open on 10 December 2024 and close on 18 February 2025.
We would like to hear from you about how your organisation could deliver under this grant program to prevent family, domestic, and sexual violence in your community.
In your EOI you will be required to:
- Provide a broad outline of your initiative.
- Address the grant program objectives.
- Outline who will participate in the project.
- Outline the short, medium and long-term outcomes of your project.
- Detail your track record in similar projects.
- Request a specific grant funding amount to deliver the project.
Please refer to Section 2, which may help with you drafting your application (see information on objectives and aims of the program).
If your organisation is found to be ineligible, we will let you know by email within 4 weeks of the closing date and your application will not proceed to Stage 2.
Anticipated assessment outcome date is 30/03/2025
Anticipated date for funding deed execution with successful applicants is 15/06/2025
Support and contact
Justice Programs
Women Family and Community Safety Directorate
DFSVprimaryprevention@dcj.nsw.gov.au
Department of Community and Justice