Feedback can be valuable in helping organisations strengthen future grant funding proposals. The Government offers feedback on grant applications that is relevant to the specific funding rounds and proportional to the complexity of the assessment process and total funding available. Applicant feedback comprises round-specific feedback summaries and, in some cases, individual feedback.
Feedback Summaries
Feedback summaries for open funding rounds will be published on the Community Grants Hub website to provide all organisations with easy to access information about the assessment process and the main strengths and areas for improving their applications.
Feedback summaries will include information about:
the strengths of highly rated proposals
how applicants used evidence to demonstrate their capability against selection criteria
ways proposals could be strengthened
other relevant considerations, such as over-subscription and ineligibility rates.
Organisations will be advised about the publication of feedback summaries when they are notified of the outcome of a grant process.
The Regional Agricultural Show Development Grants Program is designed to provide funding for the maintenance and upgrade of existing infrastructure and the building, purchase, rent or construction of new infrastructure related to the running of an agricultural show on regional showgrounds.
The Australian Biological Resources Study’s National Taxonomy Research Grant Program provides grants for research into taxonomy and systematics and to support the training and/or recruitment of taxonomists.
The Saluting Their Service Commemorations Program aims to preserve Australia’s wartime heritage and to involve people throughout the nation in a wide range of projects and activities that highlight the service and sacrifice of Australia’s service personnel in wars, conflicts and peace operations.
The Mainstream Capacity Building (MCB) Program aims to drive practice change in the delivery of critical mainstream services through the development and trialling of best practice frameworks.
The Economic and Community Participation (ECP) Program aims to build the capacity of the community to create opportunities for people with disability to contribute to community prosperity and participate in community life.
Specialised Family Violence Services deliver a whole of family approach to support those affected by family and domestic violence, including children who have experienced or witnessed family or domestic violence.
This grant will support specialist organisations to deliver community-led primary prevention activities across Australia that challenge the underlying social, economic and political conditions, and historical and cultural factors that allow violence-supportive attitudes and behaviours to thrive.
This grant will support specialist organisations to design and deliver primary prevention programs across Australia that engage and encourage men to be positive role models in their communities and to take a lead role in preventing violence against women and children.
The Department is seeking to engage a consortium partnership to develop and deliver free accredited training for sexual violence responses. The objective of this grant opportunity is to build capability and capacity of the service system by training frontline workers to better recognise and respond to all people who experience sexual violence.
The Veteran and Community Grants program aims to maintain and improve the independence and quality of life for members of the veteran community by providing funding for projects that support activities and services to sustain or enhance health and wellbeing.
The Information Linkages and Capacity Building (ILC) Individual Capacity Building (ICB) Program grant opportunity aims to enable systematic, nationwide access to peer support, mentoring and other skill building for people with disability, carers and families.
The Destination Australia grant opportunity aims to attract and support international and domestic students to study in regional Australia, to grow and develop regional Australian tertiary education providers and offer students a high quality learning experience.
This grant round will deliver the National Information Program – ILC Funding Round 2019-2022 which aims to contribute to increasing the quality and consistency of information available to people with disability, families, carers and relevant supports and services.
This Grant will deliver the Building Excellence in Support and Training (BEST) Program, which aims to support the role of ex-service organisation (ESO) pension and welfare practitioners and advocates, who provide advice and assistance to the veteran and defence communities.
This Grant will deliver the Grants-in-Aid Program, which aims to support the role of national ex‑service organisations (ESOs) that provide coordinating and representational support within the Australian veteran and Defence community.
This Grant will deliver the CCCF, which aims to improve early childhood development outcomes for vulnerable and disadvantaged children and increase workforce participation by vulnerable and disadvantaged families.
This Grant will deliver the Economic Participation of People with Disability – ILC Grant Round 2019-20 which aims to empower people with disability to choose and achieve their goals within an inclusive community, leading to their increased independence and social and economic participation.
This grant will deliver a Children’s Contact Service (CCS) in Melbourne Inner Statistical Area Level 4, to provide a child‑centred model of intervention that assists children of separated parents to establish and maintain a relationship with their other parent and family members, and to help achieve sustained and workable long term arrangements.
Major Commemorative Grants provide funding for state/territory or nationally significant commemorative activities which commemorate the involvement, service and sacrifice of Australia’s service personnel in wars, conflicts and peace operations.
This Grant will deliver the Our Marine Parks Round One Grant Opportunity, which supports the fishing sector to plan for and continue to deliver sustainable fishing and conservation outcomes in the context of Australian Marine Parks.
On 25 June 2016, the Australian Government announced financial support for younger veterans with military service post-1999. Recognising that this group has unique needs, the Supporting Younger Veterans program was established.
The Community Commemorative Grants opportunity provides funding for community based commemorative activities that commemorate the involvement, service and sacrifice of Australia's service personnel in wars, conflicts and peace operations.
Major Commemorative Grants provide funding for state/territory or nationally significant commemorative activities which commemorate the involvement, service and sacrifice of Australia’s service personnel in wars, conflicts and peace operations.
Empower newly arrived community groups and organisations to support their communities through development of leadership and governance skills, linkages to broader community and government and providing access to resources and facilities.
Equip eligible clients with the knowledge and skills to identify, understand and take action to address their settlement needs relating to social participation, economic and personal wellbeing, independence, and community connectedness.
The Grants in Aid (GIA) program aims to support the role of national ex-service organisations (ESOs) which provide coordinating and representational support within the veteran and Defence community.
This program, open to bona fide national ESOs, also provides funding to encourage cooperation and communication between the ex-service community, ESOs and the Australian Government. Funding for national ESOs aims to encourage the advancement of the objectives of ESOs.
The National Disability Conference Initiative aims to assist eligible conference organisers to maximise the inclusion and participation of people with disability at nationally focused disability-related conferences in Australia.
The National Disability Advocacy Program aims to provide people with disability access to effective advocacy that promotes, protects and ensures their full and equal enjoyment of all human rights enabling full community participation.
The Australian Government is inviting applications via an open competitive application process to deliver services under the Community Child Care Fund (CCCF). The CCCF is a new grants program for child care services designed to increase the number of children accessing child care, particularly those children from vulnerable or disadvantaged families and communities.
This project will help young carers to develop the skills and capabilities that they need to progress business ideas and to gain employment, while giving them access to appropriate support services and a peer network.
The aim of the grant is to support culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities to develop and implement locally-led prevention strategies to drive long term, sustainable changes in community awareness, attitudes and behaviours – to reduce violence against women and their children in their communities.
The aim of the grant is to enable service providers in regional areas to trial innovative and collaborative methods to improve pathways to support services for CALD women experiencing or at risk of family and domestic violence or sexual assault.
