ONE FUNDING ROUND PER YEAR

Health & Disability 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
Travel and Conference grants are awarded two times each year.

THREE FUNDING ROUNDS PER YEAR
Arts, Education and Community Wellbeing grants are awarded three times each year.

AWARDED 1 December 2011

Stompin, TAS
$20,000 for the implementation of an annual Stompin Youth Choreographic Project from
2012 - 2013

Western Australian Youth Theatre Company
$20,000 to provide mentored roles to theatre artists and to create and present a WIND theatre production.

The Old Van Ltd, VIC
$20,000 The Old Van on the Road: bringing theatre to communities – to support the purchase and renovation of three vintage bondwood caravans to be used in smaller, isolated communities where accommodation is limited.

The Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music, VIC
$15,000 to implement a series of workshops and professional development sessions to equip scholarship recipients with a range of practical skills to complement their operatic development (Mentor Program, Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust).

Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts Aboriginal Corporation, NT
$10,000 for the installation and launch of a major new media arts exhibition -Christmas Birrimbirr Installation.

Spinal Injuries Association Inc, QLD
$10,000  to produce a documentary of the ARTscape project, taking the audience through project conception to execution, and beyond.

Barking Spider Visual Theatre Inc, VIC
$7,700 for workshops to develop and fully realise the theatrical production The Memorandium

Accessible Arts, NSW
$7,500 Catalyst Dance 2012-3 comprising the Masterclass Project in 2012 and the Residency in 2013 – to provide skills development and training for practitioners and dancers with disability.

McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, VIC
$7,000 to support The McClelland Circle supporters' organisation.

West Space Incorporated, VIC
$12,000 to assist in creating a facility for Australian contemporary art in the heart of Melbourne.

Awarded 1 December 2011

The Smith Family, VIC
$10,000 towards the Learning for Life program

Berry Street Victoria, VIC
$10,000 towards services to children in foster care

The Royal Womens Hospital, VIC
$10,000 The My Kite Will Fly Program: Proposed Scoping Tour

CareWorks SunRanges Inc, VIC
$10,000 Community Hub Project

Open Family Australia, VIC
$10,000 Open Family Australia's Technology Enhancement Program

Arts Access Victoria, VIC
$20,000 The Other Film Festival

WISE Employment Ltd, VIC
$25,000 Incito: Vital Case Management and Tools of Trade Helping to Transform Vulnerable Lives

Social Security Rights Victoria Inc, VIC
$40,000 Social Security Online

FareShare Australia Incorporated, VIC
$45,000 Schools Program

Brophy Family & Youth Services Inc, VIC
$50,000 Reality & Risk: A strategic approach to addressing issues of pornography, young people and sexuality

Foodbank Victoria Limited, VIC
$50,000 Community FoodShare Coordination

Careertrackers Indigenous Internship Program Limited, NSW
$50,000 Western Australia Expansion

Welfare Rights Centre SA Inc, SA
$50,000 over 2 years
Connecting Country to City Legal Clinic Services

HOMELESSNESS FOCUS

Streat Limited, VIC
$150,000 The Scaling of STREAT's Social Enterprise Model

AWARDED 1 December 2011

James Cook University, QLD
$20,000 to bring Professor Helene Marsh and Professor Jamaluddin Jompa to the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, Cairns, 9 -13 July 2012.

The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, VIC
$14,000 to bring three keynote speakers to the Social Media, Bullying & Vulnerability: Connect, Respect, Protect, Melbourne, 14 -16 June 2012.

Palliative Care Victoria Inc, VIC
$10,000 to bring Professor Ilora Finaly (Cardiff, UK) to the Shaping the Future of Palliative Care  Conference, Melbourne, 23- 24 August 2012.

The Mental Health Research Institute, VIC
$10,000 to the Oxidation Biology Laboratory, to bring four plenary speakers to the 3rd Biennial Meeting of The International Society for Zinc Biology (ISZB), Melbourne, 15 - 19 January 2012.

Monash University, VIC
$8,000 to the School of Mathematical Sciences and Monash Centre for Astrophysics, to bring three keynote speakers to the Nuclei in the Cosmos XII Conference, Cairns, 5 - 10 August 2012.

Craftsouth: Centre for Contemporary Craft & Design Inc, SA
$8,000 to bring three keynote speakers to the Subversive Clay: Australian Ceramics Triennial 2012 Conference, Adelaide, 28 September - 1 October 2012.

Queensland University of Technology
$2,979 to Portfolio 1- Drama, Film & TV, Creative Writing & Literacy Studies, to bring Associate Professor Chiel Kattenbelt (The Netherlands) as a keynote speaker to 'Compass Points' ADSA Conference, 3 - 6 July 2012.

Westmead Medical Research Foundation, NSW
$5,000 to bring Professor Jacques Deviere (Erasme Hospital, Universite de Bruxelles, Belgium) to the Westmead Endoscopy Symposium, Westmead, NSW, 8-9 March 2012.

University of Sydney, NSW
$3,400 to the Sydney Medical School, to bring Dr Dayne Mayfield (University of Texas, USA) as a keynote speaker to the Australian Neuroscience Society 32nd Annual Meeting, Gold Coast, Queensland, 29 January - 1 February 2012.

Australian Catholic University, VIC
$6,000 to the School of Philosophy, to bring two keynote speakers to the Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association (APRA) Conference, Melbourne, 22-24 June 2012.

EDUCATION
AWARDED 1 December 2011

Victoria University, VIC
$120,000 over 2 years
Putting the jigsaw together: Innovative learning engagement programs in Australia

The University of New England,  NSW
$40,000 over 2 years
Away with the PICSE - Improving employment and education opportunities in north western NSW

THE ALEC PRENTICE SEWELL GIFT
AWARDED 1 December 2011

Good Beginnings Australia Ltd, NSW
$183,000 over 3 years
Learn2Grow - Early Years Learning Project (Doveton/Dandenong, Victoria)

Visionary Images Inc, VIC
$40,000 R3: Bass Coast Stage 2 Artwork Production and Exhibition Project

AWARDED 25 August 2011

Centre for Policy Development, NSW
$10,000
Valuing What Matters: the Australian forestry sector

Australian Marine Conservation Society Inc, QLD
$10,000
Australia's Sustainable Seafood Chef's Charter

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, SA
$20,000
Dolphin Watch Queensland

Invasive Species Council Inc, VIC
$19,500
Enhancing civil society engagement with invasive species threats to Australian biodiversity

Victoria University: Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science, VIC
$10,000
Developing effective educational material for the dolphin-swim industry in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia

University of Technology Sydney: Institute for Sustainable Futures
$20,000
Securing a sustainable phosphorus future for Australia

Live and Learn Environmental Education Inc., VIC
$9,500
Forests for the Future: Public Awareness on Mountain Ash Forests in the Upper Yarra Valley of the Central Highlands

Victorian National Parks Association Inc, VIC
$20,000
Water for parks and river rescue project 

Emu Valley Rhododendron Garden, TAS
$16,000
Development of long-term sustainability of Emu Valley Rhododendron Garden

The Trustee for The Salvation Army Victoria Property Trust, T/A Salvos Stores, VIC
$10,000
'Buy Nothing New Month' program

AWARDED 28 April 2011

Victoria University: Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science, VIC
$10,000
Developing an educational program for high risk women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Northern Gulf Resource Management Group Ltd, QLD
$50,000 Karumba Market Garden Project

Cystic Fibrosis Australia, NSW
$50,000 (over 2 years)
Quality of Care Program

Diabetes Australia - Queensland
$40,000 Speak Out

Telethon Speech & Hearing Centre for Children WA (Inc)
$45,000 Cochlear Kids (CK)

Association for Prevention and Harm Reduction Programs Australia, VIC
$30,000
Problematic Use of Pharmaceuticals (POP) Program

InCite Youth Arts, NT
$20,000
011 Arts & Disability Performing Arts Project

Royal District Nursing Service Limited, VIC
$113,000
A Nurse Led Program of Positive Dementia Practice 

Down Syndrome Association of Victoria
$20,000
Measuring the Ordinary Magic of Resilience - Family Peer Support Evaluation Project

ParaQuad Victoria
T/A Independence Australia
$20,000
Next Generation of Support - Young Carers for Young People

Yooralla, VIC
$20,000
Stroke-a-Chord Documentary: Inspiring personal stories to raise awareness and educate about stroke and aphasia

Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus Association of South Australia Inc
$10,000
Memorial Garden for Horticultural Therapy program

The Flinders University of South Australia
$12,000
Building the capacity of health care professionals to deliver culturally safe sexual health care services to young refugee women in Australia

Victorian AIDS Council
$10,000 Tuckerbag Meals Project

Polio Australia Incorporated, VIC
$10,000
Late Effects of Polio (LEOP) Self-Management Residential Program

Cystic Fibrosis Australia, NSW
$9,500
Upgrading the ACFDR for Compliance with Hospital Electronic Medical Records

Arthritis Foundation of the Northern Territory Inc
$5,000
Website Redesign and Reconstruction

Motor Neurone Disease Assn of Victoria
$15,000
So I have MND: what happens now?

AWARDED 28 April 2011

Burnet Institute, VIC
$750,000 Lab fit-out for development of a blood-stage malaria vaccine

Melbourne Health, VIC
$125,000 Sodium Imaging for Translational Neuroscience Research

AWARDED 25 August 2011

Queensland Museum, QLD
$45,000
Long-term biodiversity health in vulnerable dry rainforest habitat, eastern Australia

Museum Victoria, VIC
$150,000 over three years
The Ian Potter Biodiversity Fellowship

James Cook University: Science, Engineering & Information Technology, QLD
$20,000 over two years
Understanding the microbial contribution to coral function across ocean habitats: Turning the light on deep-water coral reefs

Tag for Life, VIC
$60,000
Bringing sharks to life

AWARDED 1 December 2011

Lung Institute of Western Australia
$3,000 to Dr Svetlana Baltic, Molecular Genetics & Inflammation Unit, to attend The RNAI & miRNA Track of the Genomic Research Conference, Boston, USA, 19 - 20 April 2012.

University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD
$3,000 to Dr Dave Lovell, School of Health & Sport Sciences, to attend the American College of Sports Medicine Conference, San Francisco, USA, 28 May - 5 June 2012.

Curtin University of Technology, WA
$3,000 to Dr Elizabeth Watkin, Biomedical Sciences, to attend the 14th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME14) , Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-24 August 2012 and the 9th International Congress on Extremeophiles, Seville, Spain 9 - 13 September 2012.

The University of Adelaide, SA
$2,904 to Dr Lisa Mansfield, School of History & Politics, to attend the 33rd Congress of the Comite International d'Historie de l'Art (CIHA), Nuremberg, Germany, 15 - 20 July 2012.

Burnet Institute, VIC
$2,700 to Dr Rebecca Jenkinson, Centre for Population Health, to attend the 38th Annual Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society, Stavanger, Norway, 4 - 8 June 2012.

Griffith University, QLD
$2,500 to Dr Nicole Knight, Smart Water Research Centre, to attend the Gordon Conference 'Drinking water disinfection by products', Massachusetts, USA, 5-11 August 2012.

RMIT University, VIC
$2,400 to Dr Sharath Sriram, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, to attend the CMOS Emerging Technologies Conference  Vancouver, Canada, 18 - 20 July 2012.

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, VIC
$2,427 to Dr Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, Stem Cells & Cancer Division, to attend The AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer: Biology, Therapy, and Personalised Medicine, San Diego, USA, January 8 - 11 2012.

La Trobe University, VIC
$2,370 to Dr Rachel Winterton, John Richards Initiative, to attend the 21st Nordic Congress of Gerontology, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10 - 13 June 2012.

University of Melbourne, VIC
$1,900 to Dr Michaela Petter, Department of Medicine RMH/WH, to attend The 8th BioMalPar Conference, Biology and Pathology of the Malaria Parasite 2012, Heidelberg, Germany, 14 - 16 May 2012.

Monash University, VIC
$1,500 to Dr Rebecca Lim, Monash Institute of Medical Research, to attend the 59th Annual Scientific Meeting for the Society of Gynaecological Investigation (SGI), San Diego, USA, 21-24 March 2012.

The University of Wollongong, NSW
$1,334 to Dr Caroline Kerr, Graduate School of Medicine, to attend 'The Microbiome' Conference, Keystone, Colarado, USA, 4 - 9 March 2012.