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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a rise in demand for sexual, domestic and family violence services, and an increase in the complexity of client needs.
The $9 million COVID-19 Domestic and Family Violence Grant program aims to support sexual, domestic and family violence services to respond to the challenges posed by COVID-19. This would include:
Grants of between $20,000 up to $150,000 are available to eligible organisations to meet those objectives.
The grants are one-off, COVID-19 specific funding for up to 12 months duration only.
The $9 million COVID-19 Domestic and Family Violence Grant program is supported by funding from the Commonwealth Government.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must:
Eligible applicants may include not-for-profit organisations including community organisations and/or faith based organisations.
Applicants are to submit a short expression of interest (EOI) via the SmartyGrants portal. The EOI should detail the initiative, including the identified need for the funds, the services the funds will assist, and the client base that will benefit from the funds. Applications include:
Organisations will have four weeks to submit an Expression of Interest.
EOIs will be assessed through a two-stage process:
Both successful and unsuccessful grant applications will be notified in writing.
EOIs are only to be submitted via the SmartyGrants portal - external site .
Applicants are required to register with SmartyGrants in order to access the online application form.
Applications open at 10am (AEST) on Wednesday, 26 August 2020 and close at 5pm (AEST) on Wednesday 23 September 2020. No extensions to the deadline will be permitted.
If you have any questions about the COVID-19, Domestic and Family Violence Grant program, or would like any further information, please contact Women NSW at WomenNSWgrants@facs.nsw.gov.au - external site
Submission of an application does not guarantee funding.
The Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) accepts no responsibility for your project, irrespective of the funding provided by the agency to support the project, and irrespective of its listing on the Women NSW website or other DCJ publications.
Organisations are responsible for meeting their duty of care and all other obligations to project participants and other stakeholders.
Grant recipients are required to acknowledge the contribution and support of the NSW Government in accordance with the NSW Government Brand Guidelines - external site .
Grant recipients agree to information about the project being used for evaluation, promotional and media purposes. Should your application be successful, DCJ may need to provide certain information to the media and Members of Parliament for promotional activities. Grant recipients should not make public announcements about their project without prior approval from DCJ.
Grant recipients agree to obtain consent from Project Participants (using the DCJ Still and moving images consent form (event)) for all still and moving images of participants captured by project organisers during the course of the Project and provided to DCJ.
Grant recipients acknowledge that the information provided in the application, and any images of the project provided to DCJ, may be used by DCJ in media and promotional activities such as publishing case studies, social media and website content, and/or media releases.
Grant recipients are required to enter into a funding agreement with DCJ. Organisations funded by DCJ must operate in accordance with their contract and with legislation, policies and guidelines relevant to their program funding.
Grant recipients will be required to submit a progress report within six months of project commencement and evaluate their project within 12 months of commencing, to include a project acquittal and report focused on program deliverables and acquittal of their finances.
The NSW Government will collect and store the information you voluntarily provide to enable implementation of this grant program. Any information provided by you will be stored on a database that will only be accessed by authorised personnel and is subject to privacy restrictions. The information will only be used for the purpose for which it was collected.
The NSW Government is required to comply with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998. The NSW Government collects the minimum personal information to enable it to contact an organisation and to assess the merits of an application.
Applicants must ensure that people whose personal details are supplied with applications are aware that the NSW Government is being supplied with this information and how this information will be used.
Information received in applications and in respect of applications is treated as confidential. However, documents in the possession of the Government are subject to the provisions of the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009. Under some circumstances a copy of the application form and other material supplied by the applicant may be released, subject to the deletion of exempt material, in response to a request made in accordance with the Act.
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