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Welcome to Edition 14 of the FundBase newsletter.
FundBase News
FUNDBASE NOW HAS 2,500 GRANTS LISTED!
You will have noticed that we have ended our Trial Search for $11, you can now buy a package of 1,3,5 or 10 searches and you have twelve months in which to use them up. There are savings if you buy in bulk and don't forget you can have your friends or colleagues use your searches. Even if you don't use them up within 12 months, we will role them over for you.
We are proud to be continuing our 100% money back guarantee. If you return a Zero result on your search we will give you your money back.
The table below outlines how many funding programs and awards there are broken into your state and your organisation type. For instance, if you are a Not For Profit (NFP) organisation based in South Australia, there are 265 programs that are relevant to you. When you do a search on FundBase, it will further narrow these down for you depending on what you need the money for and what your project is about.
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Profit |
NFP |
Charity |
Local Govt |
Other Govt |
Private |
Unicorp Group |
TOTAL |
| National |
187 |
316 |
336 |
106 |
187 |
351 |
45 |
1528 |
| ACT |
5 |
23 |
19 |
4 |
13 |
19 |
8 |
91 |
| NT |
24 |
59 |
30 |
21 |
19 |
31 |
19 |
203 |
| NSW |
62 |
147 |
120 |
78 |
53 |
79 |
26 |
565 |
| Qld |
57 |
109 |
99 |
77 |
38 |
61 |
13 |
454 |
| SA |
108 |
265 |
238 |
84 |
88 |
154 |
78 |
1015 |
| Tas |
34 |
74 |
73 |
23 |
42 |
34 |
7 |
287 |
| Vic |
129 |
410 |
368 |
147 |
213 |
169 |
123 |
1559 |
| WA |
17 |
85 |
11 |
67 |
28 |
17 |
6 |
231 |
| TOTAL |
623 |
1488 |
1294 |
607 |
681 |
915 |
325 |
5933 |
Funding News
AUSSIE EXPAT TO LAUNCH CHARITYCHEX IN US
An Australian-born businessman and philanthropist is about to launch a credit card system in New York which he believes has the potential to raise more than $US35 million for US charities in 2009.
Melbourne-born Scott Talbot has developed CharityChex, a credit card merchant technology system that allows point-of-sale, payer-designated charitable donations to be used initially in conjunction with participating restaurants across America.
Talbot says hospitality businesses can use the CharityChex credit card merchant processing system to transfer funds allocated by a patron as a charitable contribution on the bill directly to their charity of choice.
CharityChex expects a 2009 launch with a strategic processor and ISO partners with the system to follow six months later in Australia.
Fund Focus
RETOOLING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
The Re-Tooling for Climate Change program ($75m over 4 years) aims to assist companies undertaking manufacturing in Australia to reduce their environmental footprint, through projects that improve the energy and/or water efficiency of their production processes. Australian small and medium sized manufacturers will be able to apply for grants from $10,000 to $500,000. Possible activities may include investment in small scale co-generation plants that capture waste energy and use it to generate electricity for the production process, water capture and water recycling for use in production, or process re-engineering involving the application of more energy efficient materials and tools.
For access to more than 122 funding programs for Australian businesses that support Environment and Natural Resource projects, go to FundBase and search for as little as $22.
Funding Tip
WHAT IS DGR?
A deductible gift recipient (DGR) is an organisation that is entitled to receive tax deductible gifts. DGRs are:
- listed by name in the tax law, or
- endorsed by the Tax Office.
WHAT IS A GIFT?
Gifts have the following characteristics:
- there is a transfer of money or property
- they are made voluntarily
- they do not provide a material benefit to the donor, and
- they essentially arise from benefaction, and proceed from detached and disinterested generosity.
GIFT TYPES
To be deductible, a gift must be of money or property that is covered by one of the following gift types:
- $2 or more: money
- 2 Property > $5,000: property valued by the Tax Office at more than $5,000
- Property < 12 months: property purchased during the 12 months before the gift was made
- Shares $5,000: listed shares valued at $5,000 or less, and acquired at least 12 months before the gift is made ??? the gift of shares must be made on or after 1 July 2007
- Trading stock: trading stock disposed of outside the ordinary course of business
- Cultural gifts: property under the Cultural Gifts Program
- Cultural bequests: property under the Cultural Bequests Program
- Heritage gifts: places listed in the National Heritage List, Commonwealth Heritage List or the Register of the National Estate.
Gifts that fall within the first five gift types can be made to almost all categories of DGR. Gifts in the other gift types can be made only to limited categories of DGR.
Information from the Guide for Non-Profit Organisations from the Australian Tax Office. Closeing Soon
This is a new section of the newsletter letting you know how many grants we have on FundBase that are closing in the next two weeks.
130
To see which ones of these grants are applicable to your organisation, business or self, go to FundBase and search Now! |
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