Seed & Catalyst Grants
2025 Seed & Catalyst Grants
- 2025 Seed & Catalyst Grants will focus on innovative initiatives that seek to transform the underlying systems, structures and policies contributing to inequity across our priority areas of Inclusive Employment and Regenerative Economic Development.
- The Foundation will prioritise grant funding for organisations and/or initiatives that are assisting our G21 community through:
- A new system innovation (e.g. design, prototyping, testing, trialling) focused on creating enabling conditions for change, to drive increased access, fairness and equity and/or transforming underlying systems, structures and/or policies contributing to inequity.
- System innovation collaborations/network of partners for collective change efforts.
- Scaling a system innovation that has been successfully demonstrating social change, relevant to the grant priority area(s), over the past 1-3 years.
- Economic inclusion and employment opportunities for people facing individual and systemic barriers to employment and economic participation, with a priority focus on G21 region areas with the highest levels of high unemployment, under-employment and/or low participation rates and areas with high and persistent socio-economic disadvantage (currently Norlane, Corio and Whittington).
Expressions of interest are now closed, please contact grants@givewhereyoulive.com.au if you would like to discuss your application.
Congratulations to the following organisations who were awarded Seed & Catalyst Grants in 2025:
| Cultura | Seed and Catalyst Grant | Cultura’s Umbrella Pilot will support multicultural participants in training and pathways to economic participation as microbusiness owners and/or employees in the wider employment market.
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$45,000 |
| Common Ground Project | Seed and Catalyst Grant | The Staying Grounded Catering Program provides meaningful and inclusive training and employment pathways in hospitality for migrant and refugee women in the Geelong region. This program has a focus on building capacity, confidence/self-esteem, community connection, and job-readiness skills. | $45,000 |
