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The following guidelines offer information to assist grant seekers in determining whether their request is compatible with the funding priorities of VFFF.

 

Funding themes

 

VFFF considers requests under four themes, seeking to support organisations whose work benefits:

• Education
• Rural and regional Australia
• Christianity
• Community wellbeing

 

Funding priorities

Within these four themes, VFFF supports initiatives that meet specific priority outcomes for particular beneficiaries, as noted below:

 

Funding principles

Within these priorities, VFFF seeks to support projects and organisations whose work is:

• Preventative in focus
• Catalytic in nature
• Capacity building

VFFF particularly seeks to support organisations who are unable to rely on high profile fundraising from other sectors. VFFF also takes into account whether an organisation:

• has sufficient capacity to carry out the proposed activity
• has other financial support or will leverage VFFF support to obtain further funding  
• uses innovative or groundbreaking concepts or methodologies
• collaborates with others in their field
• is committed to evaluation and dissemination, with a view to replication
• will be able to sustain results into the future.

Eligibility

 

Charitable status
VFFF can only consider requests from organisations with Tax Concession Charity (TCC) OR Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) endorsement, where the latter is also charitable. VFFF does not make grants to auspiced entities. Auspicing is the practice whereby an organisation applies for funding through another organisation which has TCC or DGR status.

 

Geographical focus
VFFF makes distributions within Australia, with priority given to those in NSW, remote areas of northern Australia or, in some cases, to national level programs.

Organisations based outside NSW should contact VFFF before submitting an application for funding.

 

Funding conditions
With a few exceptions, VFFF does not provide ongoing funding or make grants that constitute the sole funding of an initiative. VFFF does not consider applications for grants of less than $10,000.

 

VFFF does not provide funding for the following*:

• Generic public fundraising appeals
• Capital or endowment funds established to provide a corpus for institutions
• Conferences, seminars, forums, festivals and workshops
• Emergency requests or disaster appeals
• Individuals (including travel and accommodation costs)
• Organisations which have a capacity to obtain significant corporate or community support
• Projects which obviously duplicate existing services
• Political projects and/or lobby groups
• Fundraising costs

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^{*VFFF reserves the right, from time to time, to approve initiatives within the exclusions list, at the discretion of Directors.}