Empowering Women and Girls Grant
Business growth funding for charities, community groups and companies, offered by Northern Rivers Community Foundation.
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- Funding
- Up to $20k
- single published figure
- Where
- Northern Rivers, New South WalesNew South Wales
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Who can apply
- Charities
- Community groups
- Companies
- Not for profits
- Sole traders
These are the applicant types Northern Rivers Community Foundation lists for this program. It is a starting filter, not the full eligibility test, and the guidelines on the official page are what decide an application.
Eligibility, in Northern Rivers Community Foundation's own words
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What Empowering Women and Girls Grant funds
The NRCF Empowering Women & Girls Grant is an annual program that offers funding to grassroots initiatives in the Northern Rivers, focusing on empowering women and girls to overcome inequality and disadvantage. The objective of the grant is to provide seed funding to pilot new programs and services, or enable existing programs and services to pivot, scale or build their evidence base.
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How to apply
Applications are made through
Northern Rivers Community Foundation
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When does Empowering Women and Girls Grant close?
This round of Empowering Women and Girls Grant closed in August 2026. GrantWindow keeps the record because most Australian grant programs run again, and the alert list is told the night Northern Rivers Community Foundation opens the next one.
How much funding is available through Empowering Women and Girls Grant?
Northern Rivers Community Foundation publishes a funding amount of Up to $20k, noted as: single published figure. Confirm it in the guidelines on the official page before you build a budget around it.
Who can apply for Empowering Women and Girls Grant?
Northern Rivers Community Foundation lists this program as open to charities, community groups, companies, not for profits and sole traders. That is a starting filter rather than the full eligibility test: the criteria in the funder's guidelines are what decide an application.
Is Empowering Women and Girls Grant still open?
This round is closed. Closed rounds stay on record because most Australian grant programs run again, and the reopening is the one worth being early for. The alert list is told the night it does.
Who runs Empowering Women and Girls Grant, and does GrantWindow take a cut?
Empowering Women and Girls Grant is offered by Northern Rivers Community Foundation in New South Wales. Applications are made through the funder, never through GrantWindow: we take no applications, charge no fee and act as no intermediary. Any site offering to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.
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