Strong and Resilient Communities - Community Resilience Grants

Grant Category Social Inclusion

Grant Status Closed

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Selection process

State/Territory National

Closing Date/Time 10:45am 13 July 2017 2:00pm 23 August 2017

The Australian Government is inviting applications via an open competitive process to deliver services under Families and Communities Program /Strong and Resilient Communities /Community Resilience grants from 1 April 2018 to 30 June 2021.

Community Resilience grants aim to build strong, resilient and cohesive communities to help make Australia more secure and harmonious as a whole. This will be done through providing grants designed to address issues in communities that show potential for or early signs of low social cohesion, and/or racial, religious or cultural intolerance.

Funding will only be available to eligible organisations to deliver one-off, time-limited, projects that build community social cohesion in the ways outlined in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines. Projects may include a trial project, seed or start-up funding to establish new activities, and/or short term interventions to resolve a particular community issue.

Applicants must involve key stakeholders from the respective communities to demonstrate the project has endorsement by providing a letter of support as part of the application process. More information about the letter of support can be found in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.

Applicants are also encouraged to collaborate with other organisations, formally (e.g. consortium arrangements) or informally (e.g. referral partnerships) to address the grant program’s objectives.

More information

More information about the Families and Communities Program/Strong and Resilient Communities/Community Resilience grants as well as requirements for applicants can be found in the Application Pack:

Grant Opportunity Guidelines
Application Form
Questions and Answers. This document may be updated throughout the application open period if/where new questions arise and warrant new information. The question and answer period will close at 5:00pm AEST 16 August 2017 so that answers to questions can be published prior to the application closing date. No further questions, except for those relating to using and/or submitting the Application Form, will be answered following this date.
Streamlined Grant Agreement General Grant Conditions
Budget Template
Sample Application Form - Community Resilience

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