Welcome back to 2009. No doubt you are starting the new year with exciting plans and full of enthusiasm to secure that funding you need to acheive your goals. FundBase seeks to help you do just that. Below is a little taste of the exciting new grants available, but to ensure you find out about all the new programs that could suit you, search FundBase now.

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The main articles:

Textile Clothing and Footwear Small Business Program
Farm Ready Industry Grants Program
Regional Food Producers Innovation and Productivity Program
Promoting Australian Produce (Major Events)
Arts Tasmania Aboriginal Arts Fund
Australia's Farming Future - Women Leading Change

Textile Clothing and Footwear Small Business Program
Grant applications are now invited for the Textile Clothing and Footwear Small Business Program. The TCF Small Business Program is a competitive, merit-based grants program that aims to improve the business enterprise culture of TCF small businesses. Successful projects are to be directed at transforming decision-making and production processes, and making the business more entrepreneurial.

A maximum of $50,000 is available for each successful project and up to $2.5 million is available for projects in 2009/10.

The TCF Small Business Program is open to any eligible TCF small business or consortium which includes a textile, clothing or footwear small business. An eligible small business will:

• have fewer than 20 employees
• undertake eligible TCF activities (eg: manufacturing or designing for manufacture in Australia. A business that solely imports overseas product, or only undertakes retail activities is not eligible)
• not have received assistance under the TCF (SIP) or TCF Post-2005 (SIP) Schemes.

Closing date is Friday 27 February 2009.

As a for-profit business in Queensland, wanting funds to support a project in Business / Industry / Trade to spend on Training / Coaching / Leanring, you would get 20 results from a search on FundBase. Are you missing out on the other 19 funding opportunities that could suit your project?

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Farm Ready Industry Grants Program

The Commonwealth Government has announced that applications are now open for the Farm Ready Industry Grants Program, part of the Australia's Farming Future package. The program is aimed at assisting farming, fisheries, forestry and natural resource management groups to adapt to climate change.

Projects may receive grants of up to $80,000 and should aim to:

• Promote awareness of strategies for dealing with climate change;
• Accelerate the uptake of climate change adaptation, mitigation, education and training activities;
• Encourage the uptake of best practice management techniques and strategies to reduce the gap between climate change research and
• practical meausres;
• Complement other government and industry programs and initiatives by delivering integrated solutions to the impacts of climate change.

Applications for this program/round will close on Tuesday 17 February 2009.

To search on FundBase as a for-profit entity in the Primary Industries sector, looking for funds to support Training/Coaching/Learning in NSW, you would come up with five programs offering in a total excess of M$2.2 in funding that you could receive. Make sure your business is aware of all
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Regional Food Producers Innovation and Productivity Program
The Commonwealth Government is inviting expressions of interest invited for the $35 million Regional Food Producers Innovation and Productivity Program (RFPIPP).

Under the program, competitive, matched-funding grants- of generally between $50,000 and $2 million- will be available to food and seafood businesses to undertake projects that will help boost the productivity, profitability and competitiveness of Australia's regional food producing industry.

Expressions of interest for Round 1 of RFPIPP close on 9 February 2009.

Promoting Australian Produce (Major Events)
Promoting Australian Produce (Major Events) aims to improve collaboration and cooperation in food and fibre industries. The program will do this by supporting major national events that bring together food and fibre industry participants to encourage information exchange across the production, manufacturing, marketing and distribution chain.

Under the program, grants are available to help stage major national events organised by food and fibre industries that aim, in whole or part, to:

• bring together food and fibre industry participants to encourage information exchange across the production, manufacturing, marketing and distribution chain
• encourage the development and adoption of new technologies and systems that will improve productivity
• encourage industry-wide and/or through-chain collaboration to effectively respond to challenges presented by climate change and globalisation.

Promoting Australian Produce (Major Events) is a discretionary grants program, with $3 million available until 30 June 2009.

Applications are now open for Promoting Australian Produce (Major Events) and will be assessed continuously until 31 May 2009.

If you are looking to run a Primary Industries Event in Western Australia and you are a for-profit entity, there are four funding programs applicable to this exact thing. Search FundBase now to ensure your event is fully supported and therefore profitable.

Arts Tasmania Aboriginal Arts Fund
Aboriginal artists and recognised Aboriginal arts organisations have been invited to apply for assistance though the Arts Tasmania Aboriginal Arts Fund, which aims to support, revitalise and preserve traditional and contemporary Aboriginal artforms and practices.

The second round of the Arts Tasmania Aboriginal Arts Fund offers grants to eligible artists and organisations in the following categories: 

• Residencies 
• Mentorships 
• Projects - Individuals 
• Projects - Organisations

Project funding is available to assist individual artists, collaborations and groups of artists, such as actors, arts administrators, choreographers, visual artists and writers.

Eligible projects must commence after April 2009 and may be as diverse as: 

• Exhibitions and showcases 
• Plays, concerts and festivals 
• Literary magazines and publications 
• Community cultural development projects.

The closing date for final applications to the 2009 Arts Tasmania Aboriginal Arts Fund is 6 February 2009.

If you are a Tasmanian not-for-profit organisation wanting to hold am Arts / Culture / Music event then your search on FundBase would reveal more than 60 different funding opportunities to take advantage of. Search now.

Australia's Farming Future - Women Leading Change
The Commonwealth Government is welcoming applications for its Women Leading Change initiative, part of the Australia's Farming Future Package. The aim of the program is to build the leadership and representative capacity of women in primary industries, including agriculture, fisheries and forestry.

The program is directed at women living and working in rural, regional and remote Australia.

Grants of up to $50,000 are available for eligible events, with a cash and/or in-kind contribution generally expected from successful applicants.

Applications for this program will close on Monday 16 February 2009.

A search on FundBase for funding to hold Women's events in Victoria, if you are a registered charity organisation would reveal ten funding opportunities. This will certainly get you on the road to running your successful event.