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Funding News
Google Grants hit Australia
Google Grants provides free Google AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations. The program is designed to help organizations extend their public service messages to a global audience in an effort to make a greater impact on the world. Now available in Australia, recipients of a Google Grant award receive at least 3 months of free advertising through Google AdWords, with a cap of $10,000 per month.

For more details on how to get world wide exposure of your community group see www.google.com.au/grants/tour/1.html.

Fund Focus
Rural Women's Award Creates Opportunities
Applications are now being received and rural women are being encouraged to give it a go and enter themselves or nominate someone they think is up to the challenge. The RIRDC Rural Women's Award celebrates rural women and their contribution to primary industries. It gives rural women the chance to discover their strengths and build their capacity to contribute to primary industries and rural Australia.

The 2009 Award provides a Bursary of $10,000 for each State and Territory winner to support them in developing their leadership capacity and the opportunity for the winner and runner-up in each State and Territory to attend the Australian Institute of Company Director's course. A national RIRDC Rural Women's Award Winner and Runner-Up is then selected to represent the Award, RIRDC and rural women on a national platform.

Applications close on World Rural Women's Day-15th October 2008.

Grant Hound
The Grant Hound has dug up the interesting fact that this month - September, there are fourteen grants listed on the FundBase database that are:
- closing this month - September
- that for-profit enterprises are eligible to apply for
- that are located in Victoria

And that is just those closing this month!!! When you search on FundBase you receive a list of results for all months, suitable to your organisation type, location and project type.

Here are a couple of those:
Helen Macpherson Smith Trust Grants
The Helen Macpherson Smith Trust has seven broad program areas to which it makes grants:
Aged Persons Care and Support

• Arts, Culture and Heritage

• Community Support

• Disabled Care and Support

• Employment and Vocational Training

• Environment

• Health and Medical Research

The Trustees give priority consideration to:

• Innovative new initiatives

• Projects which foster partnerships

• Pilot projects that demonstrate new approaches

• Projects which are sustainable beyond the pilot

• Initiatives that encourage Australian professionals to remain in or return to the Australian workforce

• Applications from organizations in rural and regional Victoria are encouraged by the Trustees, having regard to the pioneer pastoral wealth generated by Helen's forebears

Victoria-Israel Science and Technology Research and Development Fund
The Victoria-Israel Science and Technology R&D Fund (VISTECH) promotes, facilitates and supports jointly approved science and technology research and development (R&D) projects in areas such as Biotechnology; Nanotechnology; Water; Environment ; Synchrotron, and Information Communications and Technology (IC&T).

The grant provides up to $US 500,000 funding per project and up to 50% of the joint eligible R&D costs. Should the funded project result in commercialisation, the partners will be responsible for the repayment of the funding amount to VISTECH at a rate of 3.5 percent per year, up to 100 percent of the funding. No interest is charged, and in case of unsuccessful commercialisation, no repayment is required. VISTECH will actively assist companies in both countries to identify appropriate candidates for partnerships.