StreetSmart Grant Recipient | Murwillumbah Community Centre
StreetSmart Grant Recipient | Murwillumbah Community Centre
StreetSmart Australia is a Public Benevolent Institution that exists to improve the lives of people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. We work to end homelessness - we believe everyone should have a safe and secure place to call home.
StreetSmart plays a unique role in the homelessness sector providing funding and support for smaller community-based and grassroots homelessness and community services. These front-line services are under-resourced, have limited fundraising capacity and find making formal applications for funding challenging. We support these organisations to plug funding gaps, support core programs and enable them to innovate and test new ideas.
Our approach to solving homelessness recognises that homelessness sits at the intersection of many personal vulnerabilities. Our community grants fund various responses to the homelessness and housing crisis, including but not limited to:
Since our establishment in 2003, we have made over 5000 community grants to over 1000 organisations across Australia. Our grants are often ‘place based’, with grants returning funds to the communities in which they were raised.
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StreetSmart Australia aims to be a supportive ally for those on the front-line of service delivery to the most vulnerable in our community. We aim to do this by:
We believe that front-line staff are the experts, and we are here to support your work. We also believe that, where possible, people with lived experience of homelessness and disadvantage should contribute to program design and decision making.
We support smaller, grassroots organisations with an annual turnover of less than AUD $5 million.
Organisations with an annual turnover above this threshold may be eligible after discussing grant opportunities with us directly.
Funds must not be used for:
Recipients must be focused on working with people experiencing homelessness or intersectional hardship and vulnerabilities that put them at risk of homelessness. Prevention is an important part of our response.
We define homelessness broadly as inadequate access to safe and secure housing, including but not limited to sleeping rough, insecure housing, temporary accomodation and couch-surfing, and programs working to prevent homelessness occurring in areas of poverty and disadvantage. We also fund advocacy, education and information campaigns that do not directly provide services.
Recipients must operate and deliver services within Australia.
Each grant round has different impact goals and priorities, which will be clearly communicated to applicants at the time of application. For example:
Grant recipients must:
Grants are currently by invitation only. Grant applications are submitted through an online form process once invitations have been sent out.
Potential recipients are encouraged to express their interest through our Contact Form.
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On transfer of funds into your nominated bank account, grant recipients must send a receipt to StreetSmart Australia, via email, for the amount received, following the instructions that will be provided on notification that the grant application has been successful.
Grant recipients must:
In accepting a grant from us, grant recipients give StreetSmart Australia permission to publish information and images of the project being funded on our website, social media and reports. Grant recipients must themselves hold permission from any persons featured in images and stories.
There are several grant rounds throughout the year, each supporting different impact areas.
If you are unsure as to the eligibility of your project/organisation or have any questions about our application process, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us through the Contact Form.