Applications are open for organisations wishing to apply to the Federal Government’s Financial Crisis and Material Aid, Emergency Relief and Food Relief funds.
Under the Government’s Families and Communities program, grants are available to organisations wishing to apply through a competitive process.
The Families and Communities Program aims to strengthen relationships, improve the wellbeing of children and young people, reduce the cost of family breakdown, strengthen family and community functioning and facilitate the settlement of migrants and humanitarian entrants in the community.
The objective of Emergency Relief grant is to help eligible people by providing immediate financial or material aid. This may constitute food parcels, clothes or vouchers for example, supermarket, utilities or petrol.
The objective of the food relief grant is to support Commonwealth-funded Emergency Relief organisations to provide food to eligible people, on a national scale.
Applications close at 2:00 pm AEST on 22 August 2018
For more information on these grants please visit this page on the Government’s Families and Communities program page.
For further information about eligibility and how to apply, go to the Funding Round Application page.