Focus Areas

• The 2025 grant round will focus on digital inclusion and digital innovation with an emphasis on projects which provide benefit to one or more of the following five under-served groups:
  • Rural, regional and remote Australians
  • Australians Living with Disability
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • Older Australians (65 years +)
  • Young Australians (12-24 years).

Funding Information

• Total funds to be distributed as grants under the Community Grant Program for the 2025 grant round are $750,000 AUD.
• 15 Grantees will receive $50,000 each.

Eligible Projects

• The Project must comply with relevant Australian laws, standards and guidelines
• The Project must focus on digital inclusion and/or digital innovation and benefit one or more of the Priority Focus Areas and meet the eligibility criteria of these Guidelines.
• The Project must result in deliverables and output which has a clear and demonstrable value to the Australian community in the Priority Focus Areas, with such output being broadly accessible to the Australian community via the internet.

Funding Exclusions

• auDA will not support the following types of projects or budgetary items:
  • Projects for a religious, political or sectarian purpose
  • For-profit organisations, including any projects which grant material proprietary rights to the project outcomes to for-profit partners
  • Ongoing service delivery or existing committed programs (but will consider applications for strategic expansions of existing programs or new/innovative additions to an existing program)
  • Retrospective funding
  • Requests for sponsorship
  • Endowments, memorials or named academic chairs
  • Conferences
  • Projects where the primary focus is outside of Australia
  • Overseas travel
  • General fundraising appeals
  • General digital capability for your organisation
  • Generic IT training (such as introduction into social networking or trading websites)
  • Website design (such as development of a new website or redesign of existing website) rather than focusing specifically on delivery of the Project using the website
  • Requests for IT equipment or the provision of IT equipment including devices and data.
  • Marketing or market research activities, even where that research is about website/internet usage.
  • Projects which will not deliver material benefit by way of public rights of access to the Project materials.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible applicants
  • Not-for-profit organisations and research institutions, including universities, that are registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission (ACNC) are eligible to apply. Applicants must be up to date with their reporting to the ACNC and have a publicly available annual report.
  • All entities/organisations must be registered in Australia under a Commonwealth, State or Territory law, such as a company, partnership or incorporated association
  • Each organisation may submit one application. An application from a university must be signed off by the Advancement/Giving team.

For more information, visit auDA.

https://www.auda.org.au/public-impact/public-benefit-program/community-grant-program/