The Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation is seeking applications for its Innovation
Grants. The Innovation Grants are an opportunity for leaders within the
charitable sector to develop and implement effective solutions to social and
environmental issues.
Whether it is piloting or scaling a new program, service delivery
model, social enterprise or developing policy & research for systems
change, Innovation Grants are to test, develop and demonstrate new solutions,
big or small.
Impact Areas
Innovation Grants support projects or
initiatives aligned with one or more outcomes of the Foundation's Impact Areas:
- Education & Employment
- Environment &
Sustainability
- Healthy & Resilient
Communities
- Homelessness & Affordable
Housing
Types of Grants
The Foundation offers two types of Innovation
grants:
- Seed Innovation Grants: Up to
$50,000 for one year.
- These grants support the
researching, testing or piloting of a new idea or approach. This can
include:
- Project funding to test,
demonstrate, trial or pilot a new concept or idea that will lead to a
service improvement or an advance in a major community issue.
- Research funding to build
understanding of an area or issue.
- Inform program design or
practice, inform policy development and philanthropic investment or
identify best practice.
- Funding to support the initial
development phase of a social enterprise.
- Scaling-up Innovation Grants:
Up to $300,000 for two years (maximum of $150,000 per year).
- These grants support the
expansion or replication of a proven innovation with the potential to be
transformative on a broader community or systems level. This can include:
- Piloting or scaling-up a new
service model or developing social enterprise.
- Applying a new approach to
improving service effectiveness and/or service quality.
- Increasing impact and/or
service effectiveness through sharing space or back office support, or
other forms of partnership, merger or collaboration.
- Building an understanding of
an emerging issue or area through applied research (i.e. research that
has application in practice).
Eligibility Criteria
- Project must align with one or
more of the outcomes of the Foundation's Impact Areas.
- Organisations applying under
the Education & Employment and Environment & Sustainability Impact
Areas:
- Must be endorsed as a Tax
Concession Charity (TCC).
- Grants provided especially to
Australian charities operating in Victoria, New South Wales and Australia
Capital Territory.
- Organisations applying under
the Healthy & Resilient Communities and Homelessness & Affordable
Housing Impact Areas:
- Must be endorsed as a Tax
Concession Charity (TCC) and as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) as
covered by Item 1 of the table in section 30-15 of the Income Tax
Assessment Act 1997.
- Grants provided to Australian
charities registered and operating in Victoria, especially but not
limited to Greater Melbourne.
Post Date - 15-Jan-2021