About this Grant
2023 Climate Resilient Neighbourhoods Challenge supports communities and community organisations across Greater Melbourne to bring the possibilities of climate resilience to life.
Projects funded through this Challenge will nurture the capabilities, social capital, and community infrastructure of communities whose climate resilience is currently undermined by health inequities.
They will show how peoples’ lives are demonstrably improved when climate change adaptation and emissions reduction efforts are combined through a regenerative social justice lens.
Projects could enable community organisations to continue, re-energise, or catalyse partnerships, including those with government, researchers, or other not-for-profits. They could be on a single site, a street, a network of sites, or beyond. As there is no single way to enable climate resilience, the Challenge encourages fresh and innovative ideas, as well as those that build upon existing related efforts.
Grant types
A total funding pool of $300,000 is available for successful projects and initiatives, with a maximum of $100,000 for any project. The exact number of grants provided will depend on the total number and scale of the applications received.
Eligibility
The Climate Resilient Neighbourhoods Chalenge is open to eligible organisations that are:
- endorsed as a Tax Concession Charity (TCC) and as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) as covered by Item 1 of the table in section 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997;
and
- Australian charities registered and operating in Victoria, particularly Greater Melbourne
Assessment Criteria
Proposals will be assessed against the Foundation’s granting principles, and the extent to which they address most or all the following criteria:
• Place-based / rooted in a neighbourhood of Greater Melbourne currently facing climate change risks such as increasing heat, and whose strengths, capacities, and possibilities are currently undermined by health inequities
• Seeks climate change resilience that addresses social justice through some combination of transformative climate change adaptation and just transitions
• Collaborative – involves at least two local organisations with skills and networks to help make local action happen, and seeks to involve people from different walks of life, with different experiences and perspectives
• Strengthens evidence – includes an evaluation framework that will enable thoughtful monitoring as the project progresses
• Seeks to strengthen long-term resilience- potential to achieve a measure of lasting change, and might have possible replicability or scalability if successful
• Leverages, connects, or collaborates with
other programs and strategies, including those of the Foundation. Leverage could also include partner commitments, including in-kind, funding, knowledge, and materials that would support the collaboration’s efforts come to fruition
Proposals that build upon the Foundation’s related work will also be viewed favourably but are not essential.
Timeline
The Climate Resilient Neighbourhoods Challenge has a two-step application process.
1. The applicant organisation will initially submit an enquiry.
2. Selected applicants will then be invited to submit a full application
