Program - community partnerships
Program grants provide support for significant community arts and cultural development programs consisting of a range of projects, targeting a variety of different groups and engaging a number of cross-sectoral partners.
Closing date: 15 June 2008
Decisions advised: October 2008
Projects may start: 1 January 2009
About this category
Program grants provide support for significant community arts and cultural development programs consisting of a range of projects, targeting a variety of different groups and engaging a number of cross-sectoral partners.
The community partnerships committee may decide to offer support on condition that co-funding is secured. If co-funding is not secured then the offer may be withdrawn.
Who is eligible to apply?
Only applicants who have discussed their proposal with Community Partnerships staff are eligible to apply. Applicants must meet the general eligibility criteria.
This category is only open to organisations.
Applicants must demonstrate that at least 40 per cent of the budget for their proposed program is derived from sources other than the Australia Council and will be confirmed by 1 January 2009.
Organisations currently in receipt of multi-year funding from the Australia Council are not eligible to apply to this category.
What are the selection criteria?
Proposals will be selected that best demonstrate:
- The quality of the program based on innovation and excellence over a sustained range of projects, engaging a number of cross-sectoral partners
- Level of capacity, skills and appropriate experience of artists and/or facilitators to achieve the program’s outcomes
- Evidence of effective community participation in the creative process, direction and management of the projects
- Potential for significant long-term developmental outcomes for the participating communities
- Evidence of effective project planning including budget planning, use of resources, cross-sectoral partnerships and evaluation
- Capacity to deliver against one or more of the community partnerships priority areas - regional Australia, disability, young people, cultural diversity, emerging communities, Indigenous people, remote Indigenous communities, and specific social and cultural issues.
What should you submit?
You must submit the required support material in addition to the application form.
You must also submit contact details and letters of support from partners and/or contributors named in your proposal. Please note that community partnerships staff may directly contact partners/contributors to seek clarification or more details.
Important
Program grants represent one of an organisation's two applications to the Australia Council per year. A second application must be for an activity that is not currently funded through the organisation's program grant.
If you are successful with your program grant application for activity in 2009, you are not eligible to receive any other community partnerships grant in that year.
An organisation cannot receive multi-year funding and a program grant at the same time, except in specific circumstances, and where that organisation has multi-arts status.
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