Call for EOIs: Ian Potter Foundation – Early Childhood Development ($100K+ multi-year)

The Expression of Interest is coordinated by Advancement. Advancement is coordinating an internal selection process to ensure the most competitive projects are submitted.

If your project aligns with the funding ambitions and guidelines, please populate this form by COB Monday 20 January.

Funding available is generally multi-year grants of a minimum of $100,000 p.a.

Funding Objectives
For this funding round, Ian Potter exclusively seeks proposals that specifically meet the following objective: Funding Objective: To empower parents and caregivers to better access the resources and education required to support children.   This can encompass: innovative projects that target disadvantaged communities that seek to improve child development outcomes and have potential for scale.  projects to scale and consolidate successful evidence programs to a point of sustainability.   For more information, click here.

Guidelines:

  • In general, the recommended minimum grant amount for institutions and organisations is $100,000 per year and grants are usually multi-year.
  • The Foundation rarely awards the full amount of any project.  Ensure you have alternative providers of funding and that your application clearly considers any possible grant from the Foundation in this context.  
  • Existing projects may not be eligible. Occasionally, the Foundation will support a development or innovation to an existing project
  • Proposals that are collaborative and/or share knowledge with the broader sector are encouraged.
  • Stage 1 applications to Ian Potter will involve: brief project description, approach, outcomes, and details of other organisations involved.
  • The Foundation are not interested in supporting:
    • Service providers to simply continue or add new programs, locations or staffing to their existing service offering
    • Retrospective funding – projects which are already underway, or which will commence prior to the date indicated in our online application information
    • Advocacy unless it relates directly to a program we are already supporting
    • Pure research projects
    • Research for undergraduate, masters or doctoral students
    • Projects or items of equipment that might be funded internally or by a government agency such as the NH&MRC or the ARC
  • Applications for projects that have previously been declined by the Foundation cannot be resubmitted.

Previous funding to UoM:

  • Educational and Developmental Gains in Early Childhood (EDGE): Evaluation of Universal 3-year-old Kindergarten in Victoria
  • Learning from the COVID-19 crisis in early childhood education: Educator wellbeing and family engagement practices.