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Grants continue to support Black Saturday recovery
14 Jul 2020 – FRRR has awarded $584,971 in grants to support twenty-eight projects that will assist the continued recovery of communities impacted by the Black Saturday Bushfires in February 2009.
ANZ commits $250,000 to rural and regional communities
14 Jul 2020 – ANZ’s Seeds of Renewal program is now open, with grants of up to $15,000 available. This year the program is offering a share of $250,000 to community organisations in regional…
School and Beyond Grant Recipients
10 Jul 2020 – The School and Beyond program was delivered from 2015 to 2020 across 11 LGA’s in 2009 bushfire-affected regions. In total, 43 grants saw $496,250 in funding go toward supporting education…
Grants help create sanctuaries for fire-affected youth
09 Jul 2020 – Sony Foundation Australia, together with FRRR, have today announced two grants that will help young people in Mallacoota, VIC and Ulladulla, NSW, affected by last summer’s bushfires.
Dairy communities receive over $120,000 in grants
09 Jul 2020 – The Working in Dairy Communities Small Grants program, which is run in partnership between FRRR and Gardiner Dairy Foundation, has awarded $121,584 in grants to support 26 projects in Victoria’s…
Grants available to support the mental health of rural Australians
08 Jul 2020 – Grants of up to $20,000 are now available to NFPs throughout rural, regional and remote Australia to support projects that improve and strengthen the mental health of their communities through…
Aussie Cotton Farmers Grow Communities program opens
01 Jul 2020 – Australian cotton growers can again nominate local not-for-profit and community organisations to receive $150,000 in grants for projects to benefit the communities in which they live and work. The 30…
Bushfire-affected communities encouraged to apply for recovery grants
01 Jul 2020 – News Corp has partnered with FRRR to offer up to $630,000 in grants to support the recovery of communities affected by the recent bushfires across the country. Grants of up…
Families in bushfire-affected communities receive help getting Back to School
30 Jun 2020 – FRRR ran a special round of its Back to School program, which provides $50 gift vouchers to students in rural communities. Nearly 4,000 students impacted by the 2019/20 bushfires have…
Grants help put local people in charge of recovery
30 Jun 2020 – Thanks to support from R.M.Williams and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, FRRR has awarded two $25,000 grants to support the Orara Valley and the Blue Mountains in their recovery from…
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