The Latest Grant & Funding News from across Australia

A quick wrap of grant and funding news from across Australia

🎉  Grants bring youth-inspired community initiatives to life: Sixteen community initiatives that will act on issues that matter to remote, rural and regional youth will share in $148,721 in grants, through the FRRR ABC Heywire Youth Innovation Grants program.

💻 Reimagining Progress: Measuring what matters to meet the needs of our communities. Register for this upcoming webinar hosted by the Australian Communities Foundation on 26 October.

👫 Scale. Capital. Collaboration. These are the 3 words that stood out to Tom Dawkins last week at the Social Enterprise World Forum. Read more.

🙋 Conference "inspo" for future changemakers: Read about this regional changemaker conference held in Coffs Harbour, hosted by the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation.

📄 Working for purpose deserves its own reward: In an increasingly competitive employment environment, the charity and not-for-profit sector is crying out for a workforce strategy, writes Community Council for Australia CEO David Crosbie. Read more.

❓ Five questions to consider when scaling for impact: Learn why successful pilots often don’t achieve the same results ‘at scale’, and the questions to consider when expanding a change program.

🏃 Staggering figures show Australia’s up-and-coming elite athletes are ‘running on empty’: In this opinion piece, ASF CEO Patrick Walker writes about the opportunity for donors to support young sportspeople, in a similar way to the traditional funder supports young people pursing artistic careers.

🤑 From the US, The Forbes Philanthropy Score 2023: How Charitable Are The Richest Americans?