• "Designing for Better Health" collaborative competition
• Education for Sustainability Grants Program
• E-learning Innovations
• Consumer Operated Services Funding Initiative
• NRMA NSW / Qld, SGIO and SGIC Community Grants
• 'Building the Country' assistance package

Welcome to our 20th Edition of the FundBase newsletter!! Today we feature thirteen new and exciting grants that can help take your group, business or yourself to a new level in achieving your goals for 2009.  Search FundBase now.

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"Designing for Better Health" collaborative competition

The "Designing for Better Health" collaborative competition, aims to find innovative solutions and catalyze a community of changemakers around "nudges"-innovative little pushes-that help people make better decisions regarding their own health and the health of others.

The competition is open to all types of organizations (charitable organizations, private companies, or public entities) from all countries. All entries are considered that:

• Reflect the theme of the competition: Designing for Better Health. Entries will demonstrate innovative solutions around financial transactions for social change.
• Indicate growth beyond the stage of idea, concept, or research. At a minimum, entries should be at the demonstration stage and indicate success. While we support new ideas at every stage and encourage their entry, the judges are only able to evaluate programs that are beyond the conceptual stage, and have demonstrated a proof of impact, even at small scale.
• Are submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese.

The winners of this Changemakers collaborative competition will be those entries that are innovative, sustainable and have a strong social impact.

Online competition submissions are accepted until April 1, 2008 at 6 pm, U.S. Eastern Standard Time. The Changemakers community votes online to select the three award-winners from the field of finalists but to be in the running for the Early Entry prize, enter by 6:00 p.m. EST, Feb. 18, 2009.

The Changemakers Collaborative Competition winners-the three finalists that receive the most votes- will each receive a cash prize of USD $5000. There is also an Early Entry Prize of a camcorder and digital camera (Equal value of USD $1000). Plus the best nomination received by April 1, 2009 will win a digital camera.

Hint:  All those not-for-profits out there who are really struggling to find money to cover their operational costs such as telephone, admin staff etc.  This prize could be used towards these costs, along with some of the 57 other programs that come up when you search on FundBase for Operational Costs in the Health, Medicine and Disability category.  Search Now.

Education for Sustainability Grants Program

Education for Sustainability Grants Program

The objective of the Education for Sustainability Grants Program is to facilitate changes in community attitudes and behaviour in support of sustainability, through education for sustainability.

Education for Sustainability develops knowledge, skills and values that promote action and behaviour in support of a sustainable future. It aims to equip individuals, organisations and communities to deal effectively with the complex and inter-related environmental, social and economic challenges they encounter in their personal and working lives, in a way that protects the interests of current and future generations.

Education for Sustainability acknowledges the need to use learning approaches that help individuals, organisations and communities to explore sustainability and build skills that enable change, such as critical and systems thinking, mentoring and facilitation, visioning, genuine participation in decision making, action learning and action research, and the formation of partnerships for change.

The Program provides funding for:

• education, awareness raising, behaviour change and capacity building activities that act as a catalyst for change in support of sustainability;
• activities that enhance national coordination of existing education for sustainability programs, policies or institutions; and
• new and innovative approaches in areas of need in education for sustainability at the national level.

Eligible groups include, but are not necessarily limited to:

• community groups and associations;
• industry associations;
• rural organisations;
• local governments;
• universities and further education institutions;
• Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander corporations, councils or incorporated associations; and
• environmental and education groups.

The Program is generally only able to fund a small number of projects each year. Funding of up to $100,000 per project will be considered.

Hint:  Those looking to fund an Environment or Natural Resources project for workshops or field days have access to a further 16 programs on FundBase.  Make sure your project is getting all the support it deserves by searching now.

E-learning Innovations

The national training system's e-learning strategy, the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), has announced funding of $925,200 for the development, support and management of E-learning Innovations projects in all states and territories of Australia. 

Registered training organisations (RTOs) can apply for funding of between $10,000 and $50,000 each to develop innovative e-learning solutions.

RTOs are invited to apply for funding to undertake projects that will develop strategic solutions tailored to meet local education and training priorities.

Funding will be awarded to projects that focus on:

• business-training provider partnerships driving the integration of e-learning into business and training; or
• empowering individual learners through stimulating demand, providing greater choice, responding to the needs of disadvantaged learners, and through facilitating increased RPL (recognition of prior learning).

Applications for funding close in March.

Only Registered Training Organisations can apply, guidelines vary in each state and territory.

Hint:  Search on FundBase now to get matching funding from other sources, thereby strengthening each individual application and improving your overall liklihood of being funded. 

Consumer Operated Services Funding Initiative

The Consumer Operated Services Program has been developed to provide a range of supports to consumers to prevent major crises from developing that may lead to hospitalisation or entry to clinical acute services, including hospital emergency departments outside-of-hours.

Service provision for the Consumer Operated Services Program will be provided in the prioritised areas of need that have been identified within the southern area of Disability Services Queensland's Greater Brisbane Region. This region includes the Princess Alexandra Health Service District and the Bayside area of the Southside Health Service District.

Organisations must:

• hold Approved Service Provider (ASP) status; or
• Provide evidence of incorporation.
  N.B. Local Governments Authorities are not required to provide evidence of incorporation. have no outstanding financial accountability, service delivery or performance issues for funding previously provided by the department;
• be financially viable; and
• hold appropriate insurance (or provide plans to obtain insurance), and
• provide evidence that the organisation has the capacity to deliver the service and be sustainable. This is required where your organisation is applying for one-off funds over $100,000 and does not hold Approved Service Provider status.

Hint:  Search FundBase now for other funding opportunities.

NRMA NSW / Qld, SGIO and SGIC Community Grants

Each year NRMA Insurance gives Community Grants to aid community projects throughout NSW, Qld and the ACT. SGIC fund South Australia and SGIO funds Western Australia.

These Community Grants programs help to support organisations that are committed to making our community safer, particularly in the areas of crime prevention, road safety, emergency readiness and response and the environment. If your organisation is involved in any one of these areas, then you may apply for a one-off grant from $500 to $5,000 (including GST).

Organisations that are committed to making our community safer, particularly in the areas of crime
prevention, road safety, emergency readiness & response and environment may apply.

Individuals and for-profit organisations are not eligible to apply for funds.

Applications close Tuesday 31 March 2009.

Hint:  A search on FundBase for Emergency Services and Disasters, for funding for Project Costs, for Not-for-Profits in the Northern Territory would result in five perfectly suited grants to support your work.  Search Now.

'Building the Country' assistance package

Councils in country New South Wales can now register expressions of interest for funding under an $85 million State Government package designed to strengthen and sustain rural communities.

Money from the 'Building the Country' assistance package, launched late in 2008, is being allocated through seven programs over the next five years. The initial funding involves about $8.5 million and covers the period from January to the end of June 2009.

A spokesperson for NSW Regional Development Minister, Phillip Costa, says the department has called for expressions of interest relating to five of the seven programs. The programs are the:
- $11.6 million Community Broadband Development Program: expressions deadline of February 12;
- $9 million Water Adjustment Innovation Fund: expressions deadline of February 20;
- $2.5 million Country Halls Renewal Package: enquiries for funding to be made on 1800 801 738;
- $450,000 Small Communities Awareness Fund: expressions deadline of March 31; and
- $450,000 Small Chamber of Commerce Fund: expressions deadline of March 31.

Hint:  NSW not-for-profit groups working to improve their rural communities could find support from nine other programs when you search on FundBase now.

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