Funding to promote women and gender diverse people as valued members of the community

Organisations can apply if they:

• operate in the ACT
• are a non-government, legally incorporated entity, or supported by an incorporated auspicing organisation
• are a registered not-for-profit or a charitable organisation
• have no overdue acquittals
• have the right insurance to cover the activity.

Individuals can apply if they:

• are over the age of 18 years old
• live in the ACT or surrounding regions
• have no overdue acquittals
• have the right insurance to cover the activity.

Following the eligibility check, the grant assessment team will assess your application. The team includes:

• a chairperson
• 2 other senior officers from the Health and Community Services Directorate.

We appoint grant assessment team members based on their knowledge of the:

• ACT Women’s Plan and experience of the impact of violence against women and children
• influence of gender on health and wellbeing.

Team members will assess your application against the grant’s selection criteria.

If you’ve been successful in other recent grant rounds, the assessors may consider this during their assessment. This is to ensure fairness if we receive a high number of applications.

All decisions on the amount of a grant or whether to award a grant are at the sole discretion of the Health and Community Services Directorate.

Successful applicants must enter into an Agreement. This will be by a Letter of Offer with the Health and Community Service Directorate. The Letter of Offer will include:

• the grant we are offering
• how to accept an offer
• details on the funded grant amount
• the purpose or activity for which we have the grant
• the term of your funded activity for which you must expend the grant amount in full
• how to acquit your grant funds when you have completed the project.

• Individual - $3,500 - Pack and Chat for Canberra: An event for women and girls to assemble 30 care boxes for those at risk of homelessness and hunger for 3 local organisations supporting women and girls in need.
• Celebration of African Australians Inc - $9,000 - Women's Health and Wellbeing Drumming Workshop: A wellbeing and drumming workshop for African women who have experienced trauma in a safe, inclusive, and culturally relevant environment.
• Australian Chinese Culture Exchange and Promotion Association Incorporated - $3,130 - Dance event for diverse women's groups: A dance performance event for diverse women’s groups in the ACT to share their culture, ideas, costumes, and language.
• Stepping Stone Social Enterprise Limited - $19,960 - TechSavvy Women: Digital literacy and cyber security training sessions for migrant and refugee women who work at the Stepping Stone cafes in Canberra.
• University of Canberra - $12,672 - Empowering ACT’s grassroot-level multicultural women entrepreneurs: A 16-week online training program focusing on financial literacy and micro-investment skills for multicultural women.
• Australian National University Law Students’ Society - $3,094 - ANU Law Society Women’s Autonomous Initiative: Multiple seminars for female and gender diverse law students to develop their oral advocacy skills and provide targeted funding for women to participate in external competitions.
• ZamZam Foundation Incorporated - $8,950 - Driving lessons for women from Afghanistan: Driving lessons for 10 Afghan women.
• Australian National University Women's Football Club (ANUWFC) - $6,694 - Women's football: Access to elite pathways: ANU Women’s Football Club to participate in the National Premier League Women (NPLW) competition.
• Forcibly Displaced People Network Ltd - $13,000 - Workplace Self-Advocacy for LGBTIQA+ culturally and linguistically diverse women: An interactive online training module and a social media awareness campaign to address challenges faced by LGBTIQA+ refugee women and migrant women.

• Alo Enlightened Women Incorporated -  $9,000 - Accelerating Career Pathways to leadership for migrant women in the ACT
• Australian Talented Youth Project trading as The Stellar Company - $8,412 - Virtual View
• Canberra Blind Society Incorporated - $8,000 - Resourcing the Women's Safety Program
• Canberra Harmony Chorus Inc - $6,000 - Connectivity for Connection
• Capital Region Community Services Limited - $7,000 - CRCS Muslim Women's Fitness program
• Celebration of African Australians Inc - $5,000 - Breaking Cultural Barriers and Building Economic Security and Independence through Driver Training Lessons for African Women Migrant with Refugee Background
• Federation of Indian Associations of ACT (FINACT) Incorporated - $2,000 - Sakhi - enhancing safety of Indian women in the ACT
• Individual - $4,500 - Juggling Life: Circus Wellbeing Program for Women
• Individual - $1,680 - Cartographies from within
• Karinya House for Mothers & Babies Inc - $7,908 - Driving a better future: Driver license and training support for women who are pregnant or parenting
• Outdoors NSW & ACT Limited - $9,000 - Outdoor Leadership Program for Women
• Share the Dignity Limited - $5,000 - Dignity Vending Machine
• Women Inspiration Network of Canberra - $4,000 - Women Empowerment and Leadership- Women Health and Wellbeing, Skills Development and Celebration of Achievements
• Women's Centre for Health Matters (trading as Women's Health Matters) - $20,000 - My Pregnancy Options ACT Service Directory Map
• Zamzam Foundation Incorporated - $12,500 - ZamZam - Afghan refugee Women - driving, swimming and maternal health

• ACT Tibetan Community Inc - $3,000 - Tibetan Women Empowerment Project
• CARE Inc - $5,000 - MoneyWise Financial Wellbeing resource: For women detained in the AMC
• Individual - $4,000 - WIRE (Women In Retirement Education)
• Individual - $3,000 - Awareness, Seeking Support and Preventing Domestic and Family Violence in Our Communities
• Toora Women Incorporated - $4,400 - Women's Drop-in Centre at Griffin Place
• Women's Centre for Health Matters  - $15,000 - Women's Health Conference
• Women’s Shed Canberra Incorporated - $18,000 - Power tools mobile van shed for women