Grants for community projects
The Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority is devolving Australian Government Caring for our Country funds to community groups for environmental work.
Called Murrumbidgee Community Partnerships the grants will provide
provide up to $10,000 for local community projects in the Murrumbidgee catchment.
There are 3 objectives for the grants:
- To provide an opportunity and means for community groups to undertake small on-ground projects tackling important local NRM issues
- To increase community confidence and ability to adopt natural resource management (NRM) and promote shared learning and decision making leading to greater community ownership of NRM in the catchment.
- To assist community groups to move towards effective engagement in broader regional approaches to natural resource management.
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