Deadline: 5 March 2024
Submissions are now open for the Development & Operations Grants to support community media organisations to be healthy, resilient and robust. In turn this will help create a stronger society based on greater participation, engagement and cohesion.
Objectives
- The objectives of Development & Operations grants are to support community media organisations to:
- Strengthen governance policies and practices that support longer term thinking
- Enhance capacity and capability that drives sustainability
- Increase resilience through preparations for unexpected change
- Deepen engagement with identified communities
- Expand partnerships to maximise opportunities
- Develop and embed inclusive and accessible practices
Funding Information
- You can submit one Development & Operations grant application. There is no limit to how much you can apply for.
- Funding support is available from either one or a mix of General and Transmission, Ethnic, First Nations, Radio Reading, National Training Project and Business Skills Training funding lines, depending on eligibility to those funding lines.
- Total – Round 1: $5,858,277
- Applications requesting $25,000 or more must demonstrate financial contributions from other funding sources. These can include other funding partners, sponsors, crowdfunding or financial contributions from your organisation’s own resources.
What can you use the grant for?
- You can apply for any combination of the following organisational costs in your application:
- Activities – including strategic planning, updating policies and processes, training, business development, marketing, events
- Infrastructure – including production/transmission/administration equipment, website/ software development, solar panels, capital works
- Operations – including salaries, utilities, administration, professional development
- Administration for the grant up to $1,000
Activities
- They recognise community media is doing an amazing job creating opportunities for greater participation, engagement and cohesion. They strongly encourage applicants to highlight this in their applications. This includes the following activities:
- Strategic planning in consultation with your community and key stakeholders. They have published this Strategic Planning Resources article to explain what they would like to see in your strategic planning process.
- Maintaining strong relationships and collaboration with like-minded community media organisations and other community partners.
- Creating and supporting social change movements to help create a stronger society, such as empowering First Nations Australians, gender equity, promoting multiculturalism, and informing their communities so they can make better decisions.
- Showcasing new ideas through inclusive engagement with women, young people, First Nations Australians, multicultural, disability, LGBTQIA+, faith-based and regional and remote communities.
- Providing leadership, business, media, accredited and pathways training opportunities for your community.
Eligibility Criteria
- You can apply for a Development & Operations grant if you are a current or prospective community broadcaster who is producing content for broadcast by a recognised community media organisation. You are eligible to apply for a Development & Operations grant if you are:
- a recognised community media organisation (radio and TV)
- a Remote Indigenous Media Organisation or Remote Indigenous Broadcasting Service.
For more information, visit Community Broadcasting Foundation.