Ian Potter Foundation Community Wellbeing and Early Childhood Develop Grants – Opening Soon

The Ian Potter Foundation Community Wellbeing and Early Childhood Develop grant rounds will open on 6 March and close on 30 March.

Advancement is coordinating an EOI process: please provide a simple outline of your project, with particular focus on partnerships and funding breakdown via this form by 6 March – and also let the MERI Grants Team know of your EOI.

Applications are open in the following areas:

Program Area	Funding available	Funding Objectives
Fair: Early Childhood Development	Generally multi-year grants of a minimum of $100,000 pa	To support innovative programs and sector initiatives in early childhood (0–8 years old), including programs that recognise and foster parental engagement in their children’s learning and development. Funding Objectives:  To support innovative projects that target vulnerable communities that seek to improve child development outcomes and have potential for scale.  To scale and consolidate successful evidence programs to a point of sustainability.  To support initiatives that seek to better integrate fractured services/systems in early childhood, improve access to and quality of ECEC and/or strengthen the ECEC workforce.   To develop shared measurement tools and or resources for the early childhood sector.  To evaluate large scale interventions (particularly randomised control trials) that contribute to enhancing the evidence base for early years intervention.    For more information, click here.
Fair: Community Wellbeing	Generally multi-year grants of a minimum of $100,000 pa	To fund initiatives delivered by organisations supporting people with disabilities, or otherwise marginalised individuals primarily with the objective to secure employment pathways. Funding Objective: To improve circumstances for disadvantaged members of the community, this program area funds initiatives delivered by organisations supporting people with disabilities, or otherwise marginalised individuals primarily with the objective to secure employment pathways. For more information click here.

Guidelines:

• IPFs primary focus is on project sustainability (funding) and partnerships (leveraging existing community-based organisations operating in the same space)
  • Projects will require other sources of funding. The Foundation generally will only fund up to 75% of a project. While in-kind is considered, they will keenly look at external funding provided.
  • Proposals that are collaborative and/or share knowledge with the broader sector are preferred.
  • Academic research projects not linked to service delivery programs wont be considered
• IPF will not provide retrospective funding; research for undergraduate, masters or doctoral students; core business; ongoing or recurrent programs; camps; purchase and maintenance of vehicles; production of DVDs or promotional material.
• Applications for projects that have previously been declined by the Foundation cannot be resubmitted.

For further details please contact the MERI Grants Team.