Bank of Sydney opens $20,000 Grant for Good applications in Melbourne

Community organisations crossed Melbourne are invited to use for Bank of Sydney’s yearly Grant for Good, with applications present unfastened for the $20,000 backing inaugural aimed astatine supporting grassroots projects that strengthen section communities.

The assistance is unfastened to initiatives promoting κοινωνικά inclusion, wellness and wellbeing, sport and different community-focused programs, peculiarly those making a nonstop interaction connected disadvantaged groups.

Since its motorboat successful 2021, the Grant for Good has supported a wide scope of assemblage outcomes, including employment pathways for migrant and debased socio-economic groups, the proviso of escaped meals to vulnerable families, entree to indispensable instrumentality for acquisition and work, and occupation opportunities for neurodivergent young people.

Acting Chief Executive Officer Kieran McKenna said the programme recognises organisations delivering meaningful alteration astatine a clip of increasing economical pressure.

“We’re arrogant to support the inspiring organisations and initiatives making a existent quality within our communities done our yearly Grant for Good,” McKenna said.

“At a clip when galore Australians are facing rising surviving costs and uncertainty driven by planetary events, it’s these organisations that proceed to amusement up for those successful need. If you, oregon someone you know, is driving a nonstop and affirmative interaction successful your community, we promote you to apply.”

Last year’s recipient, The Reconnect Project, is simply a κοινωνικά endeavor that refurbishes donated laptops, tablets and mobile phones, diverting them from landfill and redistributing them to radical successful need.

The organisation besides trains and employs neurodivergent young adults arsenic technicians, offering pathways into employment while gathering skills and confidence.

Through the grant, The Reconnect Project was capable to employment two technicians and acquisition indispensable repair materials, keeping much than 100 devices successful circulation and addressing some e-waste and the integer disagreement affecting an estimated 1.2 cardinal young Australians.

Applications for the 2026 Grant for Good adjacent connected 11 June.