Below is a collection of grants and funding programs currently available across South Australia and nationally. These opportunities span areas such as community development, professional development, cultural celebration, economic empowerment, and organisational capacity building.
We encourage you to explore the available grants and connect with programs that can support your goals and initiatives.
Our Country Our Future is a competitive funding program with a fixed budget. Their prioritisation and assessment criteria ensure they invest in the projects that deliver the highest possible outcomes to Indigenous Australians.
https://www.ilsc.gov.au/partner-with-us/our-country-our-future/
Information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. Find information and support relevant to you to make informed career and pathway choices.
Native title-holding corporations are known as Prescribed Bodies Corporate (PBCs). PBCs can access funding through the Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS), called ‘PBC Capacity Building grant funding’. This funding assists PBCs to grow organisational capacity and generate economic benefits from their land.
https://www.niaa.gov.au/our-work/environment-and-land/capacity-building-native-title-corporations
This program provides artists and art workers with funding to help them undertake skills development and training that is relevant to their arts practice or professional practice as an arts or cultural worker.
GrantConnect provides centralised publication of forecast and current Australian Government grant opportunities and grants awarded.
https://www.grants.gov.au/Go/Show?GoUuid=74af4de8-3356-4574-b22b-428cc8dd4d4c
https://www.grants.gov.au/Go/Show?GoUuid=e9955a15-b565-4d14-ad15-2af67bd02951
https://www.grants.gov.au/Go/Show?GoUuid=af51f2f8-e3e3-4628-9a9d-ab0607ca11e8
https://www.grants.gov.au/Go/Show?GoUuid=4df0286b-349a-422b-963c-028e859adc06
Investment and support is available through a range of grants, funding and initiatives provided through CreateSA.
This grant supports the creative development, production and presentation of new work.
https://www.create.sa.gov.au/funding-and-grants/arts-and-culture-grants-program/aboriginal-and-torres-straight-islander-grants/projects
This grant supports professional development opportunities for individual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and arts workers to undertake skills development and training that is relevant to their arts practice or professional practice as an arts or cultural worker.
https://www.create.sa.gov.au/funding-and-grants/arts-and-culture-grants-program/aboriginal-and-torres-straight-islander-grants/professional-development
The Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA) is offering the Connecting Communities Events Grant as part of the Family and Business Support Program to support rural communities in South Australia affected by drought and other adversity.
https://pir.sa.gov.au/funding/connecting_communities_events_grant
The Reconciliation Education Grants program intends to support education sites in South Australia to fund exciting and innovative reconciliation projects.
https://reconciliationsa.org.au/resources/grants
The Celebrate Together Grants provide one-off funding annually to eligible multicultural organisations for festivals and events which celebrate multiculturalism and diversity and support an inclusive and cohesive society.
https://www.dpc.sa.gov.au/responsibilities/multicultural-affairs/grants/celebrate-together-grants
Grant funding is being provided to build the capacity of South Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs).