Appendix 4: Grants and transfer payments

Driving Victoria's International Agenda

Australia-India Institute Funding Agreement

Grant to build knowledge, understanding and connections between Victoria and India and supports Victoria to achieve the objectives of Victoria’s India Strategy.

Asia Society Funding Agreement

Grant to position Victoria as Australia’s business and cultural gateway to Asia and further Victoria’s ambitions of enhanced engagement with Asia.

2022 Election Commitments Multicultural Affairs Anti-Vilification Campaigns

Grants to deliver initiatives to address and prevent antisemitism and Islamophobia under the 2022 election commitment to deliver anti vilification campaigns.

2022 Election Commitments Multicultural Affairs Bachar Houli Foundation

Funding to deliver programs including the Bachar Houli Girls Leadership Program, sports activities and Cultural Awareness training.

2022 Election Commitments Multicultural Affairs Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria

Core funding to support engagement with multicultural communities, to build the capacity of the multicultural sector, to strengthen multicultural communities’ participation and to embed intersectional approaches to service delivery.

Emergency support to Palestinian communities in Victoria

Funding provided for emergency support to Palestinians fleeing the Israel - Gaza conflict.

Multicultural Access Program

2021–22 to 2023–24 Interpreter Scholarship Program

Funding provided for scholarships and bursaries to support students to undertake the Diploma of Interpreting, the Advanced Diploma of Interpreting and the Interpreters Skills Set Program.

South Sudanese Community Development Initiative

2023–24 Mental health, sports and employment

Funding is provided to support the South Sudanese community through the delivery of a range of mental health, sports and employment programs.

VACAP Community Employment Brokers Program

Funding to support African Australian job seekers to gain and retain employment, contributing to increased social and economic inclusion and assisting Victorian businesses to meet their skills and labour need.

Victorian African Communities Action Plan Grants

VACAP Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Initiative

Funding is provided to support Victorian African community organisations deliver targeted case management, community engagement and training on AOD harm to young people of African heritage and their families.

2022 Election Commitments Multicultural Affairs Festivals and Events

Funding is provided to support the delivery of state significant festivals and events which celebrate the culture and traditions of Victoria’s multicultural communities with the broader Victorian community.

2022 Election Commitments Multicultural Affairs Infrastructure

Multicultural Affairs Infrastructure Fund (MCIF)

The MCIF provides support to multicultural communities to build, upgrade, and renovate their community facilities to provide safe spaces to celebrate and share their history and traditions, build connections, and thrive.

2022 Election Commitments Multicultural Affairs Partnerships

2023–24 Multicultural Media Grants (MMG) Program and Ethnic Community Broadcasting Association of VIC Ltd

The MMG program funds multicultural media outlets to better reach and serve their communities through print, radio, broadcasting and digital media platforms.

2023–24 Targeted Direct Funding Offers

This funding delivers on the Victorian Government’s November 2022 election commitment ‘Supporting our multicultural and multifaith communities’ to provide multicultural and faith community organisations with capacity-building funds to undertake targeted projects for their communities.

Supported Playgroups for New Arrivals

This program funds 21 supported playgroups across metropolitan Melbourne to support newly arrived families with young children with improved settlement and education outcomes.

Migrant Workers’ Centre 2018–25

This funding supported the reduction of the exploitation of migrant workers and international students in Victorian employment settings by improving their access to information and services regarding their workplace rights and safety.

Legal Assistance for Asylum Seekers

This funding provided assistance to asylum seekers in Victoria with their Commonwealth refugee protection claims. It also provided legal advice and assistance to people impacted by the crisis in Afghanistan including assistance with visa applications for family members and legal assistance for people at imminent risk overseas.

2022–23 Multicultural Community Infrastructure Fund

This funding supported the building, upgrading and delivery of new facilities and community infrastructure to help culturally diverse communities feel connected to their traditional culture and identities.

Community Hubs

This funding supported 41 statewide community hubs across Victoria to improve settlement outcomes and build social cohesion within communities. Operated by Community Hubs Australia, the program ran community hubs in priority locations for newly arrived families to help them engage with support services for early childhood development, English language and vocational pathways.

Strategic Partnerships Program
and Strategic Engagement Coordinators Initiative

This funding is designed to build the knowledge and skills of multicultural communities across Victoria to fully participate and contribute to everyday life in Victoria. The program seeks to strengthen the participation, inclusion and increase access to services for newly arrived and established multicultural communities.

CALD Communities Taskforce - Priority Response for Multicultural Communities (PRMC)

The priority response to multicultural communities during COVID-19: Phase 5 offered grants to multicultural and faith organisations in Victoria. PRMC 5.0 ensured organisations could effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and build organisational capacity to further support their communities.

Multicultural Seniors Support 2021–25

Funding was provided to multicultural seniors’ organisations to support their members and build stronger community connections. Each of the organisations listed below received $2,000 from the Multicultural Senior Support 2021–25 grant program.

Regional Multicultural Festivals & Events Fund

This fund supports regional multicultural community organisations and metropolitan organisations to deliver events across regional Victoria. The aim of the fund is to attract more visitors to regional Victoria and provide support to regional multicultural organisations so they can celebrate and share their culture. Funding to rural and regional communities is a key priority in recognition that these communities often have less access to resources and networks.

My Room Children's Cancer Charity

Donation to support My Room Children’s Cancer charity on behalf of the Victorian Government.

Support for the Melbourne Press Club Multicultural Media forum and report

Grant to Melbourne Press Club to produce an evidence-based report to provide insight to support communities regarding the information flow from government to communities.

Aboriginal Community Strengthening Program

Grant to support local reconciliation activities. Promotes dialogue on reconciliation across the Victorian community, supporting local reconciliation groups and a calendar of events during Reconciliation Week.

Aboriginal Community Infrastructure Program

Grant to Local Government Victoria to allocate to grant recipients.

Closing the Gap Partnership Forum

Grant for the secretariat and sectoral engagement for the Partnership Forum on Closing the Gap, Victoria's formal implementation partner for the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.

Living Culture Grants Program

Kromelak Culturally Modified Trees Dating Project

The Living Culture Grants Program provides support to Victorians to protect, manage and celebrate Victorian Aboriginal Cultural Heritage.

Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence

Grant to support education and employment opportunities for Aboriginal people in the Shepparton area.

Strengthening the Independence of Framlingham and Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trusts

Formal response to the Aboriginal Land Legislation Amendment Bill 2024

Grants for governance and wellbeing funding at Framlingham and Lake Tyers Aboriginal trusts.

Governance and wellbeing funding at Framlingham and Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trusts

Grants for governance and wellbeing funding at Framlingham and Lake Tyers Aboriginal trusts.

Treaty negotiations and strategy,
self-determination

Grant to support the First Peoples to achieve political, economic, social and cultural
self-determination.

Early Years Summit

To build understanding and consensus of an Aboriginal Early Years model, framework and sector in Victoria that is grounded in culture and language.

Empowering Victorian Aboriginal Communities Through Infrastructure, Innovation and Organisational Sustainability

Koorie Heritage Trust

Grant to support programs and services that ensure the cultural heritage, history and knowledge systems of First Peoples are valued and celebrated.

Koorie Youth Council 2020–25

Grants to support the Koorie Youth Council to represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in Victoria and deliver key programs and events such as the Koorie Youth Summit.

First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria Funding

ARB/FPRB Funding 2023–24 to 2026–27

Grants to First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria to perform its functions as the Aboriginal representative body under the Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Act 2018.

Healing the Stolen Generations

Grant to support the delivery of case management, counselling, healing and other support programs and services for members of the Stolen Generations and their families.

Lake Condah Estate Management Program

Grant to support the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation to manage, maintain and operate the former Lake Condah Mission site and surrounding lake area.

Local Government Liaison Officer Funding

Supporting Barengi Gadjin Land Council, Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, Taungurung Land and Waters Council Aboriginal Corporation and Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation in funding a Local Government Engagement Officer for the development and implementation of Local Government Engagement Strategy under the Recognition and Settlement Agreement.

Major Aboriginal Community Events and Awards

Community Support Fund — Victorian NAIDOC Week events

Victorian NAIDOC Week events grant to support the Victorian NAIDOC Committee to deliver NAIDOC Week events.

Place-based Partnership and Community Data Project Scoping Exercise

Place-based Partnership and Community Data Scoping exercise and 2024–25 budget business case.

Treaty Authority Funding 2023–24

Grant to the Treaty Authority to undertake its statutory functions.

Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Management Training Program

The program funds the management and delivery of the Certificate IV in Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Management 2020–23 (ending date February 2024) in accordance with the terms, conditions and governing rules of the Certificate IV in ACHM 22452VIC. Funds are used for 4 accredited Certificate IV in ACHM courses consisting of 9 residential one-week learning blocks per year.

Traditional Owner Mapping

Grant to resource research with, and mapping of, family groups and Traditional Owner structures in the 4 regions without formal recognition (the Mid North West, Central North, North East and Far East Gippsland).

Strategic Aboriginal Heritage Assessment Pilot Program

RAP — Strategic Aboriginal Heritage Assessments Pilot Program

This program funds 3 Registered Aboriginal Party-led projects to research and map areas of Aboriginal cultural significance to Traditional Owners to inform the Strategic Aboriginal Heritage Assessment Pilot Project. This knowledge will be integrated into routine strategic land use and planning processes so that it can be considered and/or acted upon early in the planning system.

Budj Bim World Heritage Program

Grant to employ 2 World Heritage Officers and develop a world heritage strategic management framework to ensure ongoing effective management of Budj Bim by all relevant land managers.

RAP Operations Program 2022–24

Grants to work towards the future viability and sustainability of Registered Aboriginal Parties.

Strong Roots for Our Futures

Grants to resource foundational activities to support Traditional Owners to build strong groups who are ready to engage in formal recognition processes.

Traditional Owner Nation-Building Support

Nation-building Resource Pool Administration

Grant to support nation-building priorities as determined by the Traditional Owners and is equitably available to Traditional Owner groups with formal recognition.

Traditional Owner engagement officers

Grants for Traditional Owner corporations to employ a Traditional Owner engagement officer to help the organisation identify, build and maintain relationships with the full group.

Ongoing Protection Declaration Implementation Program

Ongoing Protection Declaration area Aboriginal heritage protection and management

To strengthen the capacity of Traditional Owner organisations to exercise their statutory obligations and to continue their relationship to Country by caring for significant places through heritage protection and management activities in Ongoing Protection Declaration areas.

Aboriginal Lands Trust

Municipal and Essential Services Funding
2014–24

Grants for continued delivery of funding to the Lake Tyers and Framlingham Aboriginal Trusts to enhance the health, safety and wellbeing of the Lake Tyers and Framlingham Aboriginal communities.

Aboriginal Lands Trusts — Community Development

Grants for governance and wellbeing funding at Framlingham and Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trusts

Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation Corporate and Community Centre

DDWCAC Corporate and Community Centre Funding for 2023–24 financial year

Supporting Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation to achieve their longstanding aspiration of a permanent, purpose-built, Corporate and Community Centre on Country in Bendigo.

Taungurung Land and Water — Operational Bridging Funding 2023–24

Taungurung Land & Water — Operational Bridging Funding 2023–24

This funding was provided to ensure the continued capacity of the Taungurung Land and Waters Council Aboriginal Corporation (the Organisation) in the year 2023–24 to meet commitments under the 2018 Recognition and Settlement Agreement and to preserve its corporate capacity while disbursements from the Taungurung deposit in Victorian Traditional Owners Trusts are inaccessible

Traditional Owner Settlement Act negotiation funding for BGLC 24–26

Grant to support Barengi Gadjin Land Council to engage in negotiations with the State under the Traditional Owner Settlement Act 2010 during 2024–25 and 2025–26 whilst building general corporate capacity.

Victorian Traditional Owners Funds Limited Operational Funding 2024–25

Grant to support the operation of Victorian Traditional Owner Funds Limited on behalf of the Victorian Traditional Owners Trusts.

The Trustee for the Long Walk

20th Anniversary Long walk

The funding supported the ‘20th Anniversary Long Walk’ event.

VAHC Ancestral Remains Repatriation Fund

WJJWJ Ancestors Returning to Country
— BGLCAC

The VAHC Ancestral Remains Repatriation Fund supports eligible registered Aboriginal parties with all costs associated with the repatriation of their Ancestral Remains from VAHC to the RAP. Eligible RAPs can apply for up to $30 000.

Australian Associated Press Ltd Funding Agreement

Support for the Australian Associated Press

The Victorian Government acknowledges the importance of regional media, in particular local newspapers, for communities across Victoria. The funding will support the organisation with resourcing and reporting on regional matters as part of a broader package of support for regional media.

Donation to Good Friday Appeal 2024

Support for the Royal Children’s Hospital

Victorian Government contribution to the Good Friday Appeal 2024 to allow Royal Children’s Hospital to continue delivering care to Victorian families.

Donation to the Big Issue via DFFH

Contribution to The Big Issue, Australian non-profit and charity via DFFH

Victorian Government donation to fund The Big Issue’s digital transformation strategy and secure its long-term future.

Donation to the 2023 Big Freeze 9 event

Contribution to the FIGHTMND Charity

Victorian Government contribution to support fundraising activities for the Big Freeze 9 event. The funding will be invested in medical research to find a treatment and cure for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) along with providing equipment and supports for those that suffer from MND. This event is held annually at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and is the charity’s primary fundraiser.

Donation to the 2023 Daniher’s Drive

Contribution to the FIGHTMND - Cure for MND Foundation

Victorian Government contribution to the 8^th Daniher’s Drive event to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease (MND).

Donation to the 2024 Big Freeze 10 event

Contribution to the FIGHTMND Charity

Victorian Government contribution to support fundraising activities for the Big Freeze 10 event. The funding will be invested in medical research to find a treatment and cure for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) along with providing equipment and supports for those that suffer from MND. This event is held annually at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and is the charity’s primary fundraiser.

Donation to the Rabbinical Council of Victoria (RCV)

Funding Support for the Rabbinical Council of Victoria 2023–2025

Victorian Government contribution to support RCV for organisation support, capacity building, professional development and community engagement.

Donation to the pastoral care and leadership training for rabbis and rebbetzins

Contribution to the Rabbinical Council of Victoria

Victorian Government contribution to fund for the pastoral care and leadership training for rabbis and rebbetzins to enable them to provide support to the community in the context of increased demand for their support during the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Donation to the Diwali Event in October 2022

Contribution to the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing

Victorian Government contribution to the Diwali Event hosted by DFFH, to support Victorian’s Indian Community and recognise the contributions of Victoria’s Indian Community.

Donation to the Assyrian New Year Festival

Contribution to the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing

Victorian Government donation to Australian Assyrian Arts & Literature Foundation to support the delivery of the Assyrian New Year Festival, for four years ($10,000 per year) from 2024–27.

Donation to Terry Floyd Foundation

Contribution to Mr Floyd to complete the Avoca Mine Search

Victorian Government contribution to support Mr Floyd to complete his search for the remains of his brother, Terry Floyd at Morning Star Mine in Avoca.

Premier’s Apology to past care leavers

Funding support to Victorian care leavers’ apology in Parliament

Victorian Government contribution to support to deliver multiple statewide events for Victorian historical care leavers on the day of apology in Parliament (Wednesday 29 November 2023) and key actions related to the apology.

Public Sector Innovation Fund

Outpatient Predictive Appointment Tool

Grant to drive new and effective solutions to complex policy and service delivery challenges in Victoria and support small-scale collaborative projects that test new approaches to deliver better outcomes for Victorians.