Grants & Funding

Links to funding opportunities for young people and people working with young people.

Grants and funding links

• For young people


• For organisations working with young people


• General grants and funding links

For young people

• The Future Leaders Awards recognise and reward young Australians who have shown strong leadership and potential. The Awards also aim to inspire others to engage in environmental and community issues and make a difference.

• Write in Your Face is a funding program which supports emerging forms of writing practice by young writers, or organisations working with young writers. Proposals are invited from people who are using language in innovative ways. This may involve writing for zines, e-zines, comics, multimedia, multi-artforms or cross-media works, websites, live performances and spoken word. 

• The Australia Council is committed to supporting, encouraging and promoting creative practices, by, for and with young people, including funding.

• The Foundation for Young Australians offers funding for a range of purposes, aimed at both individual young people and youth-focused non-profit organisations. 

• Indent is a NSW youth entertainment network which funds people aged between 12 and 25 who want to create, develop or produce entertainment. 

• The STA Travel Trust sees travel as a force for social change and provides assistance to those aged over 18 with big ideas who need to travel to make them happen.

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For organisations working with young people

• The Australia Council is committed to supporting, encouraging and promoting creative practices, by, for and with young people, including funding.

• The Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies provides links to funding sources for research and work with young people.

• The Foundation for Young Australians offers funding for a range of purposes, aimed at both individual young people and youth-focused non-profit organisations. 

• The St.George Foundation provides financial support to charitable organisations throughout Australia to help them assist children and young people up to 18 years of age with special needs. The Governors of the Foundation meet twice a year to consider applications for financial assistance from $2,500-$25,000. Applications for financial assistance for less than $2,500 are given discretionary consideration once a month. 

• The Telstra Foundation Community Development Fund supports charitable organisations that assist or support Australian children and young people (18 years and younger).

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General grants and funding links

• Australian Charities is a source of information on the Australian charitable sector and fundraising.

• The Australian Taxation Office has published a guide for non-profit organisations about fundraising.

• Community builders links to a range of government and non-government sources of funding for all kinds of purposes, as well as linking to other funding directories. The site also has a submission writing section.

• GrantsLINK is the Commonwealth Government's community grants site.

• The Sydney Community Foundation provides funding for projects that focus on young people at risk, young families and women experiencing disadvantage, and Indigenous and culturally diverse communities. The website has funding guidelines available.

• Philanthropy Australia represents private, family and charitable trusts offering funding.
  
  
• Fundbase is a funding database where you can register to search for and receive information about funding from Government, philanthropic and private sources.

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