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Volunteer Grants Program 2008 is the latest hot grant from our Easy Grants newsletter.

Provider: Dept of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Region: National
Amounts: Funding requests may range from a minimum of $1000 up to a maximum of $5000 per organisation.
Closing Date: October 17, 2008

Purpose: To support volunteering, and to build social inclusion and community participation in Australian communities.

Overview: The Volunteer Grants Program 2008 provides funding for eligible not-for-profit organisations to support their volunteers and encourage volunteering by:

  • purchasing small equipment and sporting items to help their existing volunteers and to encourage more people to become volunteers
  • contributing towards fuel costs incurred in their volunteering work, such as when using their cars to transport others to activities, deliver food and assist people in need.

The Volunteer Grants Program 2008 provides funding of between $1000 and $5000 to help not for profit organisations to:

  • buy tangible, small equipment items to help volunteers, and/or
  • cover costs such as club sporting equipment and uniforms, training of volunteer sports coaches, and travel for specific sports-related purposes, and/or
  • contribute towards fuel reimbursement for their volunteers.

Who can apply:Eligible organisations must be Australian not-for-profit organisations:

  • whose volunteers' work is aimed at supporting families and/or communities in Australia, and
  • which are legal entities, such as, but not limited to:
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    • Australian private companies
    • Australian public companies
    • Registered cooperatives
    • Aboriginal corporations, i.e. incorporated under federal/state acts, or cooperatives
    • Organisations established through a specific piece of Australian or state/territory legislation, for example benevolent institutions.
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Website Info: http://www.fahcsia.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/aboutfacs/programs/sfsc-vgp_2008.htm

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