NAB Foundation Community Grants

Local projects focused on disaster preparedness, recovery, and climate resilience can apply for funding. Highlights include:

– Purpose: Funding is available for projects that:

– Equip communities to face natural disasters.

– Aid in post-disaster rehabilitation for people, nature, and infrastructure.

– Forward-think by reducing a community’s carbon emissions to mitigate future disaster risks.

– Eligibility:

– Registered charities with the Australian Charities and Not-for Profits Commission (ACNC).

– Social enterprises and startups with a social or environmental core mission.

– Organizations (non-profit or profit-driven) with an Australian Business Number (ABN) focusing on charitable objectives.

– Government bodies or funded entities, like schools, aiming for a charitable goal.

– Special Note: There’s no need for Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status for applying.

– Grant Amounts:

– Up to $10,000 is offered for community-centric projects.

– A cumulative $1 million is disbursed across two annual grant rounds.

– An added $200,000 is reserved for impact grants. These are for projects with scalability potential that can benefit various communities and the environment. With NAB’s organisation-wide voting system, up to four worthy projects can receive $25,000 each round.