In August 2018, our Program Management team and our CEO will be travelling to the Northern Territory to meet with not-for-profit organisations across all the sectors the Foundation supports.  

We will be holding our annual Grantseeker Information Forum in Darwin on Thursday 30 August at the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin Hospital. 

For those elsewhere in Australia or unable to attend on the day, we are running three sessions as webinars.

Find slideshows and hand-outs here

The latest funding round has resulted in 70 grants totaling $2,409,075 being awarded. The Arts and Knowledge & Learning programs were open for applications. However, several applications which had been undergoing further development from previous rounds were also considered under Community Wellbeing, Environment & Conservation, Health & Disability and Medical Research

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The Foundation’s Board has recently reviewed the funding objectives relating to the Health component of the Health & Disability program area. This review is part of the Foundation’s ongoing evaluation of all its program area funding objectives since 2015. 

The Board also recently decided to review the International Learning & Development (ILD) program. Consequently ILD will be closed in Round 2, 2018.

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This month we welcome our latest group of grantees, whose applications were approved by the Board at the Foundation’s first Board meeting for 2018.  It is a relatively small group of grantees this round as we reach the end of a period of reduced program area funding. Over the past two years, the Foundation has successfully managed the dual challenge of significant pre-existing multi-year commitments combined with the introduction in April 2016 of our Major Grants funding stream.  This necessitated more stringent management of reduced program area budgets for a time, a situation that will change as we move into the 2019 fiscal year.

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