Grant Guidelines
In the Heritage Bank Charitable Foundation's second round of grants, there were two different levels of grants that eligible charities could apply for.
Our Shout Workplace Giving Grant
1 x $25,000 grant
Area of Focus:
- Positive educational and alternative pathways to help at-risk children and teenagers.
Growing Stronger Communities Grants
4 x $15,000 grants
Areas of Focus:
- Positive educational and alternative pathways to help at-risk children and teenagers;
- Health care services for vulnerable Australians and their families; and
- Support for the economic and social wellbeing of people in regional, rural and remote communities, including in times of natural disasters.
- The program aligns with the Heritage Bank Charitable Foundation vision, values and strategy
- The program seeks to meet a real need within the community and is an appropriate response to that need, and includes community input
- There is evidence of effective project management, evaluation and performance monitoring
- The program has already demonstrated success in assisting people and building stronger communities
- The organisation has the knowledge, resources and capacity to deliver what is proposed
- The program budget is realistic and well defined
We will not providing funding in any of the following cases.
✘ Programs outside Australia
✘ Auspiced applications
✘ Sponsorship or fundraising appeals
✘ Events or commercial activities
✘ Small contributions to large capital programs
✘ Programs of a political or religious nature
✘ Contributions to work that would normally be considered the responsibility of local authorities or government departments
✘ Requests to support individuals
✘ Recurrent operational costs such as rent and utilities
✘ Study or attendance at conferences or seminars
✘ Endowments, memorials, bursaries or named academic chairs
✘ Motor vehicles and buses
✘ Government entities
✘ Private schools
✘ Other PuAFs and PAFs
✘ Sport, recreation or social activities for their own sake
✘ Programs which duplicate existing services
✘ Research except in special circumstances at the Board's discretion
✘ Programs and welfare of domestic animals
Grant applications are closed for the annual Heritage Bank Charitable Foundation Grants program. Check back later this year for the opening of the 2022 grants.
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