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Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation Innovation grants now open

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Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation has launched its Innovation Grants Round and will accept applications from not for profit organisations in Victoria working within the Foundation’s impact areas of Environment & Sustainability and Healthy & Resilient Communities.

There are two grant types available:

  • Seed: up to $50,000 for one year
  • Scaling-up: up to $300,000 over two years.

Environment & Sustainability focuses on three priority areas:

  1. Transitioning towards a low carbon economy
  2. Building a sustainable food system
  3. Protecting aquatic eco-systems

Heathy & Resilient Communities focuses on three priority areas:

  1. Addressing inequities in healthy ageing
  2. Building community resilience in the face of climate change
  3. Strengthening social cohesion and reducing discrimination

To learn more about Innovation grants visit lmcf.org.au

 

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