2016 FRRR ABC Heywire Youth Innovation Grants program is now open
In 2016, FRRR and their donor partners are again offering $100,000 in seed funding to assist not-for-profit community-based organisations in rural, regional and remote Australia adopt and act on one of the eight innovative Heywire project ideas. The communities selected to pilot the programs will implement their projects in the next 12 months from September 2016.
Community groups are encouraged to apply to the FRRR ABC Heywire Youth Innovation Grants Program to bring to life the ideas developed at the 2016 Regional Youth Summit. The eight ideas are:
Cooking for Cohesion - Racism
Rage – Gender Equality
regionALL – LGBTIQ+
Operation Defrost – ICE abuse
No Limits Network – unemployment among young people with a disability
Dot 2 Dot – connecting new volunteers with organisations that need them
Magnify Mentoring – disengaged youth in education
Back to Bush – encouraging tourism in lesser-known Australian town
What can be funded?
- Funds are available to implement or pilot one of the eight 2016 Heywire ideas
- Projects must be undertaken between September 2016 to September 2017
- Projects must take place in regional Australia – they must be outside of Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.
Applying
The 2016 FRRR ABC Heywire Youth Innovation Grants program is now open, closing 1 June 2016.
