We will fund social purpose organisations (including not-for-profits, social enterprises, universities and local government). We will fund organisations who demonstrate an existing commitment to inclusion through engagement of people with disability in valued and contributing roles in governance and/or workforce. This inclusion must be in place before you will be considered for a grant.
You can use our grants to fund the costs of running your project. This includes salaries and other staffing costs; set up costs; operating costs and overheads; any costs for events; payments for people who participate in codesign or advisory groups for your project, marketing and monitoring and evaluation. We will fund capital costs related to running your project (e.g. laptops for your project staff), and capital costs for innovation (e.g. building prototypes).
We are interested in funding innovations in disability inclusion. We do not have fixed priorities around inclusion, but applicants will need to demonstrate their project meets a community need. You can do this by showing how people with disability have been involved in developing and designing your project. Through our own engagement with people with disability, we have identified the need for innovation in inclusion in the following areas:
We want our grants to have impact beyond the direct impact and life of the funding. We fund projects that have the potential to influence the policy and practice of other organisations – including governments, disability service providers and others – in relation to disability inclusion. Examples include research and advocacy work which informs government policy and projects that establish different ways of providing services that are more inclusive. Previous grant holders have demonstrated the potential to create impact beyond the life of the grant by:
We don’t have a set minimum or maximum grant size. Our recent grants have varied in size from $8000 for a small research project, up to $230,000 for a two year start-up project.
We will make multi-year grants of up to three years, subject to available funding. Our focus on innovation means we will sometimes fund the same project for multiple years, but on a staged basis (rather than under single, multi-year grant). For example, we might start by funding research, then make a further grant to support a pilot project, and then another grant to scale up the pilot project.
Our Innovations in inclusion grant for organisations is an open annual grant program. Applications are considered throughout the year, subject to available funds. Grant applications are considered every two months when the Trustees meet.
JFM Fund staff provide support to applicants whilst they are developing their application and (if funded) during grant management.
Each application is assessed independently, by an assessor with a strong background in disability inclusion.
The final decision to award a grant rests with the board of trustees, which includes people with disability. When making their decision, the board checks that applications meet the following conditions:
The board works to manage any conflicts and perceived conflicts of interest.
