Community Connect
Welcome to the seventh edition of Family and Community Services' e-newsletter.
ISSUE 7 • JULY 2009
E-news from Family and Community Services
Record Number of Community Projects Funded
Forty-nine community projects have been funded through the It's Not OK campaign's Community Action Fund (CAF). The successful applications include 33 organisations which haven't been funded before. A record number of 132 applications were received.
The newly funded projects will receive just over $1m among them, bringing the total number of projects funded through the CAF to 146.
Applications for this round were notable for their diversity and quality, CAF project manager Cristy Trewartha says. "We were pleased to see more applications from outside the family violence sector this time. This shows that family violence is becoming everybody's business."
The final selection shows a good mix of projects, both in terms of geography and culture. Successful applicants include 14 Maori community projects, four Pacific projects, and five projects working with refugee and migrant communities. Two projects within disability communities were also funded.
The CAF is a key strand of the It's Not OK campaign, and has enabled communities to develop prevention projects tailored to their local environment.
"For this round we encouraged projects around elder and child abuse prevention, and we did get a good range which reflected this," Ms Trewartha says.
