Community Response Fund
The Community Response Fund is a short-term, time limited response to address immediate cost and demand pressures the economic downturn is placing on key community-based critical social services for families, children, young and older people.
Funding will be made in the form of one-off grants. These will usually be for 12 months, but could be for a shorter period.
The Fund has two key components:
Financial Crisis Funding - for providers of critical social services who are experiencing severe financial difficulty and are unable to maintain the level of their services as a direct result of the impact of the economic downturn on their funding.
Demand Funding - for providers of critical social services who are experiencing significantly increased demand for their services from families, children, young people and older people as a direct result of the economic downturn. Innovative responses to increased demand, including working in collaboration with other critical social service providers, are encouraged.
The maximum amount of funding that will be awarded at any one time is $50,000, excluding GST. Only in very exceptional cases will the grant exceed this amount. More than one application for funding can be made but only once the current grant period has expired and funds have been fully expended. Where all other things are equal, priority will be given to first time applicants.
- Apply for the Fund
- Who is Eligible
- Funding Timetable
- Fund Criteria
- Innovation and Collaboration
- Assessment Process
- Round One Grants
- Community Sector Regional Briefings
- Frequently Asked Questions
- New approach to supporting community-based social services
- Where to get more Information about the Fund
- Read Funding News
