Aboriginal Community Initiatives Fund: 2026–27 funding round

Who can apply

Department of Families, Fairness and Housing lists this program as open to the following kinds of applicant. It is a starting filter, not the full eligibility test, and the guidelines on the official page are what decide it.

• Not for profits

What the program funds

Projects funded through the Aboriginal Community Initiatives Fund support and address priorities that are identified by the 11 Dhelk Dja Action Groups to address family violence at a local level. The Victorian Government is providing $1.1 million for the 2026-27 Aboriginal Community Initiatives Fund (CIF). This is to support community led projects that educate, prevent, reduce, and respond to family violence in Aboriginal communities across Victoria.

That description is Department of Families, Fairness and Housing's own wording, reproduced from the official listing under CC BY 4.0. Our plain-English summaries are being written program by program and this one has not been done yet.

What it is for

This program is categorised under the following purposes. Each one that has a page of its own links to every other Australian grant we track for the same purpose.

• Community
• Health
• Indigenous

How to apply

Applications for Aboriginal Community Initiatives Fund: 2026–27 funding round are made through Department of Families, Fairness and Housing, not through GrantWindow. We do not take applications, charge a fee or act as an intermediary, and any site that offers to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.

Applications close in September 2026. Government grant portals are busiest on the final day and several of them close on the stroke of the deadline, so the practical advice is to submit a day early.