Local Investments Funding Grant Opportunity
Indigenous funding for individuals, offered by National Indigenous Australians Agency.
- Funding
- Not stated
- Total pool available: $20,000,000
- Where
- ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TASCommonwealth of Australia
- Opened
- 30 June 2026
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Who can apply
- Individuals
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Eligibility, in National Indigenous Australians Agency's own words
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What Local Investments Funding Grant Opportunity funds
The Local Investments Funding Grant Opportunity enables strategic and rapid response to address local issues to benefit First Nations people and facilitate improved community and government engagement. The objective of a Local Investments Funding grant is to deliver outcomes, aligned to community needs government priorities and Closing the Gap targets by providing funding of no more than $150,000 (GST exclusive) for: generally small scale,
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When does Local Investments Funding Grant Opportunity close?
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How much funding is available through Local Investments Funding Grant Opportunity?
National Indigenous Australians Agency does not publish a funding amount for this program, so this page does not show one. The figure, where there is one, is in the guidelines National Indigenous Australians Agency publishes on their own page, which this record names and carries the link to.
Who can apply for Local Investments Funding Grant Opportunity?
National Indigenous Australians Agency lists this program as open to individuals. That is a starting filter rather than the full eligibility test: the criteria in the funder's guidelines are what decide an application.
Is Local Investments Funding Grant Opportunity still open?
It was open now when we last read National Indigenous Australians Agency's own page, on 24 Oct 2026. Every source is re-read nightly and this page carries the date of the last read.
Who runs Local Investments Funding Grant Opportunity, and does GrantWindow take a cut?
Local Investments Funding Grant Opportunity is offered by National Indigenous Australians Agency in Commonwealth of Australia. 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.
Where this record came from
Sourced from GrantConnect (grants.gov.au), © Commonwealth of Australia, used under CC BY 4.0.
- Read fromgrants.gov.auGrantConnect - Current Grant Opportunities
- Published underCC BY 4.0CC BY 4.0 (Australian Government default open licence)
- Last checked24 Oct 2026The day we last read this program on the funder's own page.
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