Agency: Mercy Foundation
Closing: 4 April 2025
Eligibility: Local community groups and not-for profit organisations
The Mercy Foundation’s Social Justice Small Grants Program provides seed funding to assist communities and organisations to build capacity that will help combat poverty and disadvantage, create structural change and bring about greater social justice in Australia.
The following criteria will be used to assess Social Justice Small Grant applications:
- Innovative projects that require seed funding to increase social equity and inclusion and challenge unjust structures and systems will be prioritised.
- The Mercy Foundation prioritises projects that target disadvantaged women and/or women with children.
- In this grant round, priority will be given to projects that promote the inclusion of marginalized groups in the community.
- Applications are accepted for projects that are run wholly within Australia, by community-based groups or organisations based in Australia.
- Organisations applying for funds must be a legal entity (or under an auspice organisation that is a legal entity), not-for-profit and therefore exempt from income tax, but are not required to have Deductible Gift Recipient status.
- Small to medium organisations with a turnover of less than $3,000,000 with limited access to other funding sources are prioritised.
- Note that organisations with projects concerning homelessness should apply to the Mercy Foundation’s Grants to End Homelessness program.
Grant amounts range from $1,000 to $10,000.
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