Grant Information
Download the Young Leaders Project Application form
Local Project Application Form 2009
Murdi Paaki Young Leaders Grants Program Guidelines
Background
The Murdi Paaki Young Leaders Grants Program is for young people who are participating in the Murdi Paaki Young Leaders Project 2007.
They are for young people to:
• Come up with your own project ideas
• Create your own applications
• Undertake a project that has wider community benefit
• Provide an opportunity for increased community participation by encouraging community support for the project.
Amount of Funding Available
Each of the 16 communities are able to apply for up to a maximum of $1,000 to seed local projects.
Applications can only be made by a participant of the MPAYLP and requires demonstrated support by other organisations in their community.
What sort of projects could I do?
Anything as long as the project is benefiting the wider community i.e. someone other than yourself.
Some example of projects that other young people have done?
A group of young men planned a graffiti project to use their design skills to regenerate city areas.
Some young people decided they wanted to clean up a piece of land between houses in their local area to use as a football oval. They got permission from local residence and cleaned up the area. Now large scale football tournaments are there and young people take more care of the area. They got the local community and businesses to support them.
Other ideas are:
- Movie Nights
- Workshops with young people i.e. sports, music, focus groups
- Discos
- Excursions
- A school newspaper or magazine
- A sports tournament
- A campaign to stop racism
- Drug awareness campaign
- A music/drama day with the elderly
- Tree planting
- Research/ documenting local cultural heritage
- A information booklet about an issue for you.
- A recipe book using recipes from different cultures in the community
- A youth conference or forum
YOU CAN DO ANYTHING as long as the ideas are yours and are benefiting the wider community!!!!!
What is the Criteria?
Funding for the project will be approved by the Executive Committee of the Murdi Paaki Young Leaders Project. In order to make an informed decision someone from the committee might contact someone in the group to discuss the project. The committee will be interested in the project aims, how it will benefit the community rather than the application.
In order to be approved:
- At least one of the group must be involved in the Murdi Paaki Young Leaders Project
- The project idea must be developed by young people
- The application must be created by young people
- The project must be implemented by the applicants
- The project must have community benefit
- The project must be drug and alcohol free
- The community must support the project
How do I apply?
Fill out the application form. You can use your creativity to submit your application including:
- A movie
- A web page
- Written document
- Filmed Play
- Any other form of submission.
What will happen after I apply?
The Project Officer will contact you and organise for your group to get the money. Once you have finished the project you will need to say how you spent the money and what you have learned from doing the project at one of the Murdi Paaki Young Leaders Camps.
Who is going to support me?
Your Community Facilitator will support you to undertake this project.
Murdi Paaki Sports Grant
Murdi Paaki Regional Sport & Recreation funding is provided to individuals and teams to enable them to compete in activities to develop sporting abilities. Where an applicant can be identified as being professional, the applicant will not be eligible for Murdi Paaki Regional Sporting grant funds, and that it is for amateurs only.
Murdi Paaki Regional Sport & Recreation applications will be paid in advance up to the amount as indicated in the policy. If there is an outstanding acquittal in relation to a previous grant then no further submission for funding will be considered.
Only Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people who reside in the Murdi Paaki region are eligible to apply for Murdi Paaki Regional Sport & Recreation funds. Priority is given to youth for Murdi Paaki Regional Sport & Recreation funds. No income test is applied to Murdi Paaki Regional Sport & Recreation Applications.
All applications for Murdi Paaki Regional Sport & Recreation funding are to be endorsed by the Community Working Party in each community in the Murdi Paaki region.
For Application forms please phone MPREC on 0268 410 111 or visit www.mprec.org.au
2009 NAIDOC Small Grant
The Western Region (Bourke/Dubbo) Indigenous Coordination Centre invites Organisations/Institutions to apply for funding to celebrate NAIDOC Week, 5 - 12 July 2009. This years' NAIDOC theme is 'Honouring Our Elders, Nurturing Our Youth?'.
For further information, contact the Western Region Indigenous Coordination Centre on 1800 079 098 or 02-6841 3100.
Applications must be lodged by close of business, Thursday, 30 April 2009.
Address applications to: Simonne Goolagong, Western Region ICC, PO Box 1083, Dubbo, N.S.W. 2830
Downlaod the 2009 NAIDOC Small Grant Application Form
NAIDOC Small Grant 2009 (19 KB)
