Public Health Grants

The Foundation is seeking applications from organisations that are community-led and using scientific evidence-based approaches.

Community - may be defined as a group of people living in a particular area (geographic) or as a group of people with similar characteristics or shared interests (cohort).

Universities and research institutes may apply as implementation partners when there is no community organisation that is willing to take on that role, and the community has invited them to take a leading role.

Funding Objectives
- To improve the health and well-being of communities that have a high incidence of ill health by supporting them to implement preventative public health initiatives that work best in their specific context.

This can encompass:
- Early-stage projects exploring the most pressing public health challenges identified by a community and developing solutions with the community to improve health and well-being for that community
- Advanced projects that seek to implement solutions conceptualised and developed with the community as an equal partner
- Collecting and synthesising the evidence of established community-led initiatives to inform policy or develop and test funding models for long-term sustainability
- Scaling of pilot projects that have demonstrated success in improving health and well-being in a community
- Community-led innovative public health initiatives that disrupt or shift existing systems, driving determinants of health (social, economic and environmental), which perpetuate health outcome inequities.

Community-based organisations with the appropriate DGR status of any size are encouraged to apply. The Foundation only considers grant applications for multi-year grants for a minimum of $100,000.

Please note that existing projects may not be eligible. Occasionally, the Foundation may support an innovation or development for an existing project; however, please contact the relevant Program Manager before proceeding.

The Foundation prioritises applications that provide evidence of collaboration.

Seeks to identify and support community-led implementation of public health measures that aim to improve the long-term health and well-being outcomes of communities.