Recent Grants
Awarded
The most recent grants were awarded in April 2010. The complete listing of grantees, project titles and amounts awarded is set out by Program Area.
Note: Arts and Education grants were not awarded in April 2010.
ONE FUNDING ROUND PER YEAR
Health and Medical Research are awarded at the first meeting of each new calendar year.
Environment & Conservation and Science are awarded at the second meeting of each calendar year.
TWO FUNDING ROUNDS PER YEAR
Arts, Education, Travel and Conference grants are awarded two times each year.
THREE FUNDING ROUNDS PER YEAR
Community Wellbeing grants are awarded three times each year.
Recent Grants
Arts
AWARDED 3 December 2009
West Space Inc., VIC
$26,000 West Space Initiatives: Public & Education Program, Volunteer and Internship Program, Emerging Writers' Program and Online Project
Monash University, VIC
$20,000 New Technologies in Glass Forming for the Creation of Unique Art Glass
Northern Gulf Resource Management Group Ltd, QLD
$10,000 Stage One - Ghost Net Gear Workshops in the Torres Straits & western Cape York
Australian Poetry Centre, VIC
$5,000 Home is where the poem is - APC/ArtPlay Children's Poetry Anthology 2010
Heide Museum of Modern Art, VIC
$70,000 Heide Begins
Next Wave Festival, VIC
$10,000 Open to the Public
Museums Australia (Victoria), VIC
$10,000 Exhibition design for galleries and museums
Multicultural Arts Victoria, VIC
$10,000 SCOPING STUDY - Multicultural Arts Victoria Centre for Excellence
Aphids Events Inc, VIC
$10,000 Seedpod Plus - enhanced mentoring in Castlemaine
Art Gallery of South Australia, SA
$130,320 Greening of the Gallery - Lighting
Regional Arts Victoria, VIC
$20,000 Places and Pieces Jewellery Project
Bell Shakespeare Company, NSW
$150,000 Creative Capacity Building Program
Cairns Regional Gallery Ltd, QLD
$10,000 The Moving Sculpture Project: A Travelling exhibition for schools
Linden Board of Management Inc, VIC
$10,000 Education Program
Geelong Ethnic Communities Council Inc, VIC
$5,000 Street Face A Community Arts Project
Newman College Parkville, VIC
$10,000 Exhibition of the Tapestries of the Life of St Francis of Assisi by Arthur Boyd
Recent Grants
Community Wellbeing
AWARDED 29 April 2010
Mission Australia, NSW
$1,000,000 (over 4 years)
Mission Australia Centre, Kingswood, Western Sydney
Children's Protection Society Inc., VIC $600,000 (over 3 years)
Integrated Care and Education Project
YWCA NSW, NSW
$160,000 (over 2 years)
Future for Families
Music Broadcasting Society of Queensland Ltd (4MBS Classic FM), QLD
$50,000 Silver Memories - wellbeing around the clock
Shine for Kids, NSW
$50,000 SHINE for Kids Connecting Kids and Dads - Barwon Prison
St Luke's Anglicare, VIC
$40,000 Bendigo Community Youth Centre
Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation, NT
$50,000 WYDAC Training Kitchen
Odyssey House Victoria, VIC
$50,000 Odyssey Financial Counselling for AOD and Dual Diagnosis Clients
YWCA of Adelaide, SA
$20,000 Improving Community Wellbeing through Youth Mentoring
Camp Breakaway Inc., NSW
$40,000 Training a new Generation of Volunteers in Disability Care
Global Care Australia, QLD
$33,000 Special Life Skills Education Programs for Indigenous and Culturally Diverse Young People and the Koren People
Children's Protection Society Inc., VIC
$9,600 Mentoring Mums- Phase 2 Evaluation
Surf Lifesaving Northern Territory Inc., NT
$20,000 Volunteer Offshore Rescue Boat Service - Northern Territory
Merri Creek Management Committee, VIC
$20,000 Together by the Merri: Linking Indigenous people and local natural areas to expand community understanding about Indigenous heritage
Sea Lake and District Health Service Inc., VIC
$20,000 Getting out and about in the Mallee
FRANS Inc., NSW
$17,500 FRANS Carer Resources Library
Whitelion Incorporated, VIC
$13,500 Whitelion client (Case Management) Database Project
Recent Grants
Conference
AWARDED 3 December 2009
The Trustee for P2: People and Parks Foundation, VIC
$3,800 for the 2010 International Healthy Parks, Healthy People Congress, Melbourne, 11-16 April 2010
The University of Adelaide, SA
$5,000 to bring Dr David Gere and Mr Albert J Winn to the Drawing the Lines Against AIDS, The University of Adelaide, February 2010
The University of Queensland, QLD
$6,000 to bring keynote speakers to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics XXIV Conference on Statistical Physics, University of Queensland, July 2010
University of New South Wales, NSW
$5,000 to bring Professor Edwin Rubel, University of Washington, to the 7th Australasian Auditory Neuroscience Workshop, University of New South Wales, January 2010
Able Australia Services, VIC
$5,000 to bring Mr Ges Roulstone, Director of International Relations, Sense UK, to the 8th National Deafblind Conference, Melbourne, 28-30 April 2010
Mucopolysaccharide & Related Diseases Society Aust. Ltd, NSW
$3,500 to bring a keynote speaker to the 11th International Symposium on Mucupolysaccharide & Related Diseases, Adelaide, 23-27 June 2010.
Swinburne University of Technology, VIC
$6,000 to bring Professor Wolfgang Katterle to the 22nd International Conference on Atomic Physics, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, July 2010
Australian National University, ACT
$5,000 to bring keynote speakers to the - In the Image of Asia: Moving across and between locations conference at Australian National University, Canberra, April 2010
The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, VIC
$6,000 to bring cybersafety and bullying experts to the Navigating the Maze: Cybersafety, bullying and wellbeing solutions for schools, Melbourne, April 2010
AWARDED 20 August 2009
Life Education Australia, NSW
$20,000 to bring keynote speakers to the Head to Head with Life Ed - 2009 International Conference, Sydney, December 2009
University of Melbourne, VIC
$1,500 to bring a keynote speaker to the annual Honoring the Child, Honoring Equity 9 international early childhood conference, University of Melbourne, November 2009
University of Melbourne, VIC
$3,500 to bring keynote speakers to the "Human Rights in Asia" conference, University of Melbourne, October 2009
The University of Adelaide, SA
$5,000 to bring keynote speakers to the Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy and Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, University of Adelaide, November/December 2009
Recent Grants
Education & Alec Prentice Sewell Gift
AWARDED 29 April 2010
EDUCATION
Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal, VIC
$275,000 (over 2 years)
For the Tomorrow:Today A Foundation for Rural Community Development’s Education Program - Benalla
AWARDED 29 April 2010
ALEC PRENTICE SEWELL GIFT
Odyssey House Victoria, VIC
$35,000
Odyssey House Mirror Families
Recent Grants
Environment & Conservation
AWARDED 20 August 2009
Centre for Sustainability Leadership, VIC
$49,500
Online Future Sustainability Leaders Program
Victorian National Parks Association, VIC
$50,000
Victoria Naturally Alliance Community Engagement Program
RMIT University, VIC
Design and Social Context
$250,000
The Potter RMIT Hamilton Rural Community Research Network (RCRN)
Zoos Victoria, VIC
$40,000
Saving the Tasmanian Devil through video surveillance
Green Cross Australia, QLD
$20,000
Extreme Weather Heroes Phase 2 Expansion
Nature Conservation Council of NSW Inc.,
$10,000
The Save our Last Sharks Website
University of Melbourne, VIC
Faculty of Science
$10,000
Showcasing the Tiegs Museum
Kimberley Foundation Australia, VIC
$500,000
Kimberley Human and Environmental History Project
Royal Zoological Society of South Australia Inc., SA
$10,000
Planting the seed for a centre of excellence for wildlife health in South Australia
Climate Action Network Australia, NSW
$9,500
Empowering Australian NGOs to effectively influence the international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen
Recent Grants
Healthy Communities
AWARDED 29 April 2010
University of Sydney, NSW
$300,000 (over 2 years)
Preventing Poor Outcomes for People with Chronic Illness: Improving management - and self management - of chronic disease through evidence-informed policy that integrates care in acute and community settings.
Guide Dogs Victoria, VIC $50,000
Increasing Guide Dog Accessibility for Blind Victorians
Cancer Council Victoria, VIC
$60,000 Less Common But Serious Cancers
Royal Children's Hospital Foundation, QLD $50,000 'What if I Could'
Multicultural Centre for Women's Health, VIC $50,000 Extending our Healthy Living: Sharing Models for Immigrant and Refugee Women's Health and Wellbeing
E W Tipping Foundation, VIC
$40,000 (over 2 years)
EW Tipping Foundation D.A.D.S Initiative
TLC For Kids Inc., Vic
$40,000 Developing a model for self-sustainability and growth of a charitable organisation
Women's Health East Inc., VIC
$40,000 (over 2 years)
Investing in Women - Building a Socially Inclusive East
Arthritis Victoria, VIC
$29,750 The Arthritis Map of Victoria - developing effective data
Wentworth District Hostel Society Inc., NSW $5,000 Towards the furnishing of Offices, Interview/ Meeting Rooms and Treatment Room.
Youngcare Ltd, QLD
$21,080 Youngcare Apartments Gold Coast - Furnishing Apartments of Living Areas
Griffith University, QLD
$11,850 Providing nutritional guidance on ready-to-eat or takeaway foods to busy, regular takeaway consumers which may assist with longer-term weight management
Ashcare Inc., VIC
$19,640 Hydrotherapy for People with a Disability who have high and complex support needs
Menzies School of Health Research, NT
$15,000 Understanding the association between otitis media and educational outcomes for Aboriginal children living in a remote Northern Territory community
Myeloma Foundation of Australia Inc., VIC $15,000 New Enterprise-wide Communications Management Project
MontroseAccess, QLD
$6,000 To produce a DVD and instructional book on all aspects of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. It will cover an understanding of the condition, the diagnosis, treatment and holistic care of the child and family
Recent Grants
Medical Research
AWARDED 29 April 2010
Alfred Health, VIC
$200,000
Alfred Health Clinical Trials Pharmacy Service - Stage Two of the Alfred Pharmacy Department Infrastructure
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Ltd,
NSW $50,000
Enabling cardiac research discoveries through access to next generation sequencing technology
Monash University, VIC
$100,000
A research initiative for optimising antibiotic use in hospitalised patients using a pharmacological approach
The Children's Hospital at Westmead,
NSW $50,000
The Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) Suite - Stage 1
Schizophrenia Research Institute, NSW
$45,000
Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank (Robotics Equipment)
Menzies Research Institute,
TAS $100,000
Establishing a high-resolution, live cell fluorescence imaging facility at the Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasania
Cystic Fibrosis Australia, NSW
$50,000
Connecting the Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry with an International Cystic Fibrosis Data Warehouse
Recent Grants
Science
AWARDED 3 December 2009
University of Technology Sydney, NSW
Faculty of Science
$35,000 An innovative Approach to Address Invalid Drug testing Procedures
AWARDED 20 August 2009
University of Tasmania, TAS
Science, Engineering and Technology
$45,000 to developing and applying non-invasive methods for conserving Tasmanian devils and quolls threatened with extinction
Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre, NSW
$35,000 to the Sapphire Coast Marine Science Laboratory
Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation, NSW
$72,000 to the Ian Potter Doctoral Fellowships at Lizard Island
James Cook University, QLD
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
$20,000
The Impact of Land Based Run-off to Coral Reefs
Museum Victoria, VIC
$150,000 for the DNA Lab enhancement program
RMIT University, VIC
Science, Engineering and Technology
$15,000
Marine fouling invertebrates; investigating their colonisation mechanisms to better protect marine infrastructure and biodiversity
Recent Grants
Travel
AWARDED 3 December 2009
University of South Australia, SA
Information Technology, Engineering & the Environment
$2,950 Dr Delene Weber to attend The 16th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Corpus Christi, Texas, June 2010
Monash University, VIC
School of Biomedical Sciences
$2,000 A/Professor Anna Roujeinikova to attend The PepCon 2010: After a Solutions for the Machines of life, Beijing, China, March 2010
Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, NSW
$2,500 Dr Fiona Keane to attend The International Meeting on Proline Specific cleavage and Oxopropyl Formation - Functions and Therapeutical Strategies, Halle (Saale), Germany, May 2010
Schizophrenia Research Institute, NSW
$1,929 Dr Victoria Dalton to attend The Second Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) Conference, Florence, Italy, April 2010
Monash University, VIC
School of Biomedical Sciences
$2,500 Dr Andrew Hoy to attend The Keystone Symposia - Adipose Tissue Biology (J3)/Neuronal control of Appetite (J4), Keystone resort Keystone, USA, 2010
University of Melbourne, VIC
Potter Museum of Art
$1,750 Ms Svetlana Honl to attend the Baltic Museology School 2010, Rezekne, Latvian Republic, 13 - 19 June 2010
University of Melbourne, VIC
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
$2,500 Dr Anitra Wierenga to attend The XVII International Sociological Association, World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010
University of Melbourne, VIC
Department of Clinical and Biomedical Science: Barwon Health
$3,000 Dr Felice Jacka to attend The 15th EPA Symposium EPA Section Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry, Bergen, Norway, June 2010
University of Melbourne, VIC Melbourne Graduate School of Education
$2,300 Dr Katie Wright to attend The British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2010
Centre For Eye Research Australia Limited (CERA), VIC
$2,286 Dr Alauddin Bhuiyan to attend The International Conference on Computer Vision Therapy and Applications, Angers, France, May 2010
Deakin University, VIC
School of Life and Environmental Sciences
$2,100 Dr Mathew Berg to attend The 25th International Ornithological Congress, Campos do Jordao, Brazil, August 2010
University of Melbourne, VIC
School of Engineering
$2,514 Dr Anthony Stickland to attend The 4th Core to Core Young Researchers Workshop on Particle Technology, York, UK, December 2010
La Trobe University, VIC
School of Life Science
$3,000 Dr Robyn Murphy to attend The FASEM summer conference - The Biology of Calpains in Health and Disease, Arizona, USA, July 2010
La Trobe University, VIC
School of Occupational Therapy
$1,000 Dr Christine Imms to attend The Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2010
Menzies School of Health Research, NT, Child Health Division
$1,900 Gabrielle McCallum to attend The 7th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2010
Menzies School of Health Research, NT, Child Health Division
$1,649 Mr Michael Binks to attend The 7th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2010
Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Science
$3,000 Dr Wilhelmina Huston to attend The 12th International symposium on human Chlamydial infections, Salzburg, Austria, June 2010