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COMMUNITY BUSHFIRE RECOVERY GRANTS AWARDED
Our grant round which closed on 9 April 2023 has been awarded; 23 community groups in East Gippsland impacted by the 2019/2020 Black Summer Fires were given priority funding. Click on the link below to view the Media Release announcing grant recipients. Media Release listing Grant Recipients OPENED: 1 March …
2023 Scholarships Awarded
2023 Scholarships opened on 1 December 2022 and closed on 29 January 2023. Twenty-five students across East Gippsland Black Summer Fire impacted communities shared a total pool of $160,500 for post-secondary studies in 2023.
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When ‘grant application’ is a dirty word!
The East Gippsland Community Foundation (EGCF) was set up by the Victorian Government and the Community Enterprise Foundation to distribute $8.8M of Australian Disaster Relief Funds donated by the public to help people affected by the Black Summer Fires in 2019-2020. In just under two years, EGCF successfully disbursed 40% of the funds through open grant rounds, scholarships and project partnerships. Three years on, we know East Gippsland communities impacted …
Project Partnership signed off with MADRA and EGTM
We are delighted to announce that we have signed off a Project Partnership with the Mallacoota & District Recovery Association to advance one of their priority community-led projects. The sum of $50,000 has been provided by the East Gippsland Community Foundation to ensure the East Gippsland Timber Milling Project gets under way in the area. This project will assist the farming community to utilise damaged timber from the Black …
COMMUNITY BUSHFIRE RECOVERY GRANTS AWARDED
Our grant round which closed on 9 April 2023 has been awarded; 23 community groups in East Gippsland impacted by the 2019/2020 Black Summer Fires were given priority funding. Click on the link below to view the Media Release announcing grant recipients. Media Release listing Grant Recipients OPENED: 1 March 2023CLOSED: 9 April 2023Maximum grant: $40,000 CLOSED 9 April 2023