Grants for Climate Advocacy in Australia
Deadline: 18-Oct-21
The Groundswell Giving is inviting applications for climate advocacy to accelerate climate action and supporting climate solutions by funding high-impact climate advocacy in Australia.
Types of Grant
In consideration of the need to balance both long and short term gains in the philanthropy, Groundswell grant rounds rotate between two types:
Global Donors prioritizing Reproductive Health
Donors supporting Women Empowerment and Gender Equality in Africa
How can Short Concept Notes attract Large Funding
Core, unrestricted funding: (sometimes called general operating funds) are donations where the grant recipient has discretion to use the funds wherever they’re most needed. Unrestricted funding for organisations’ core costs is best practice in philanthropy generally. This is especially the case for philanthropy that funds advocacy, where circumstances can rapidly change and a project that made sense in January might be out-dated by June.
Project funding: funds to pay for specific projects carried out by climate advocacy organisations, such as an event, training, report, piece of polling, research or a communications tactic like advertising. Groundswell does project funding as part of the donors’ learning journey, because it’s an easy entry point into understanding climate advocacy
Funding Information
At each grant round, they offer: 2 major grants of $40,000.
What kind of climate action do they fund?
They are interested in funding advocacy organisations tackling the climate crisis who:
How NGOs can search, identify and appoint Fundraising Consultants?
Download Ebook on “Organizational Policies and Procedures NGOs can adopt and remain successful”
Build the movement: activate new and strategic demographics or sectors to get involved in tackling the climate crisis;
Change the story: build urgency for stronger action from trusted voices in the community;
Shift the money: dry up the pipeline of funding to fossil fuel companies;
Change the politics: enable greater leadership within state and federal Governments.
Guidelines
Their funding mission focusses on advocacy targeting rapid decarbonisation (deeply and urgently reducing carbon emissions) and climate justice.
They know that conservation and restoration are critical factors in solving the Climate Crisis, however Groundswell funding is targeted specifically at advocacy work. Read more here.
They are open to all applications, but are conscious that small to medium sized organisations have the least access to major donors and large donor databases, so these sized organisations (under $5 million revenue a year) are strongly encouraged to apply.
At this stage, only organisations and campaigns within the Australia Pacific region are eligible to apply for funding.
Notes
How NGOs can search, identify and appoint Fundraising Consultants?
Download Ebook on “Organizational Policies and Procedures NGOs can adopt and remain successful”
Training video on “An Introduction to Donor Prospect Research Benefit and Process”
International Humanitarian and Wider Crises Funding: Largest Donors
They do not offer funding to for-profit organisations or businesses.
They can only make grants to Deductible Gift Recipient 1 entities, or organisations that have a partnership agreement with a DGR1 entity.
Although they recognise plastic pollution is an important issue to solve, it is outside of the funding mission which focusses on decarbonisation and climate justice.
For more information, visit https://www.groundswellgiving.org/apply