Call for Applications: CBF Content Grants (Australia)

Objectives

• Content grants increase and diversify the voices heard in Australian media by supporting the creation of compelling content.
• The objectives of the Content grants are to support community media organisations to:
  • Increase community participation and engagement in community media that is inclusive and accessible to all.
  • Amplify and reflect the voices, cultures and languages of Australia’s diverse communities.
  • Build audiences by supporting creativity, excellence and innovation in community media content production.
  • Expand partnerships to explore new forms of storytelling across topics and platforms.

Funding Information

• You can apply for any number of content projects. A maximum of six content projects can be supported per organisation, per financial year, excluding support for Specialist Radio Programming.
• Requests for more than $20,000 
  • Applications requesting $20,000 or more must demonstrate financial contributions from other funding sources such as other funding partners, sponsors, crowdfunding or financial contributions from your organisation’s own resources. Contributions cannot include other CBF funding, in-kind or volunteer support. The proportion of the co-contribution will be considered in assessment.

What can you use the grant for?

• Content development and distribution costs directly associated with the production and delivery of a specific program or project, such as:
  • project specific wage support: presenters, producers, cast, crew, project management, technicians
  • program specific needs: research materials, music and copyright purchases, relevant project-specific insurance such as defamation insurance for a special broadcast event, travel, marketing, development resources, TV studio hire, venue hire, small equipment, equipment hire, catering, materials for set design, costumes and props, make-up, interpreters, subtitles and captioning, program specific training, phone/internet costs, program website costs, production support and facilities
  • organizational support: administration costs for funded projects (up to $1,000 per project).

Who can apply?

• You can apply for a Content grant if you are a current or prospective community broadcaster who is producing content for broadcast by a recognised community media organisation.
• While the application process is open to any producer, the grant itself must be managed by one eligible organisation listed below. They recommend you negotiate an auspice agreement with any auspice organisation you work with.
• Eligible organisations include:
  • a community radio station
  • a community television station
  • an incorporated non-profit community media sector organisation
  • a Remote Indigenous Media Organisation or Remote Indigenous Broadcasting Service
  • an incorporated not-for-profit organisation
• Incorporated not-for-profit organisations are eligible where they are producing content or auspicing on behalf of an independent producer (the producer must have a distribution agreement with a recognised community media organization).

Conditions

• The production must be first broadcast by a recognised community media organisation and where possible must continue to be made available to that organisation for re- broadcast upon request.
• You must acknowledge the CBF’s financial support as detailed in the Acknowledgment Toolkit.
• You must ensure a sample of the production is made available for publication on the CBF website.
• The CBF will not acquire a copyright interest in funded content. The owner of copyright in a work is the creator unless the creator has assigned copyright in advance, such as through a presenter’s employment, broadcast or auspice agreement.
• You will own the Intellectual Property Rights in the content Activity Material, subject to any third-party Intellectual Property Rights contained in the content Activity Material.
• You will provide the CBF with a permanent, irrevocable, free, world-wide, non-exclusive licence (including a right of sub-licence) to use, reproduce, publish, and adapt the content Activity Material for any CBF purposes.
• Where third-party intellectual property rights exist in relation to the content Activity Material, you must, at your cost, undertake reasonable endeavours to arrange for the CBF to be granted a permanent, irrevocable, free, world-wide, non-exclusive licence (including a right of sub-licence) to use, reproduce, publish and adapt the content containing the third-party Intellectual Property Rights for any CBF purposes.

For more information, visit Community Broadcasting Foundation.