Greater Melbourne Foundation 2026 Funding Round
Aboriginal Housing Victoria
First Nations Private Real Estate Agency
Scoping of a charitable entity or subsidiary to expand culturally safe housing and property management options for Aboriginal Victorians in response to a major gap in the market, where no Aboriginal-specific affordable housing provider currently exists despite high demand, low rental vacancy rates and ongoing discrimination in the private rental system.
Afri-Aus Care Inc
UBUNTU Family Economic and Housing Stability Initiative
Delivery of a community-led, culturally responsive program for African Australian children, young people and families from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds in Greater Dandenong, Casey and Cardinia that addresses housing instability, economic exclusion and settlement-related disadvantage.
Arts Access Victoria
Disability Eco-Climate 2030
Centring the experiences of disabled people across Greater Melbourne to respond to climate change and economic inequality and ensuring that climate resilience and the green economy are accessible, inclusive, and economically just.
Bridge Darebin (trading under Preston Neighbourhood House Inc).
Building Digital Capacity for Equitable Community Access at Bridge Darebin
A digital transformation project which will improve systems, staff capability and multilingual access to reduce barriers for disadvantaged learners and expand equitable program access.
Castlemaine Institute
Safe as Houses: Pathways to Household Resilience and Retrofits for Greater Melbourne
A learning and engagement series designed to help local government, peak bodies and communities strengthen climate resilience in housing across Melbourne, and provide participants with practical evidence, tools and pathways to support a whole-of-home approach to natural hazard resilience, alongside energy efficiency and electrification.
Climate for Change
Climate and Biodiversity Youth Leadership Program
An in-person program building climate leadership among young people from diverse communities through workshops, peer conversations and biodiversity-focused discussions.
Community Pop-Up Markets Ltd
The Community Grocer
Helping to build social connection and local economies, and strengthen food security across Greater Melbourne through weekly neighbourhood markets that provide low-cost, culturally relevant produce to nearly 400 households experiencing financial disadvantage each week.
Darebin Information Volunteer & Resource Service Incorporated
DIVRS Urban Food Program
Growing community connection, skills and climate resilience, this work will continue the successful and unique Urban Food Program by coordinating volunteers across three sites to grow and provide fresh, culturally appropriate food for 500 people experiencing disadvantage every week across Darebin.
Environmental Justice Australia
Legally Empowering First Nations People to Care for Country
Providing legal support, expert legal advice, and representation to Traditional Owner groups with the aim of advancing and using the law to better protect, care for, and demand authority over Country.
Farm Raiser
Good Food Voucher Program
Allowing people experiencing food insecurity access to healthy produce from two urban farms, this initiative removes financial barriers, supports regenerative local agriculture and reduces reliance on long supply chains by building a resilient local food economy.
Fitzroy Legal Service Inc
Supporting Public Housing Towers Residents to Understand and Uphold Their Rights
Support for public housing residents subject to relocation from their homes as part of the demolition of Melbourne's 44 public housing towers to understand and uphold their rights.
Habitat for Humanity Victoria
Brush with Kindness
Mobilising volunteers to support housing providers in preparing vacant properties for new tenants through gardening and painting projects that refresh and revitalise homes, thus helping reduce vacancy times, lower maintenance costs and return safe, welcoming properties to people in need sooner.
Jika Jika Community Centre Inc
Welcome to Walker Street
Using placemaking principles to build social capital, enhance long term outcomes and amenity for residents, Jika Jika will co-design activities to deliver on-site, building social connection, increasing safety and supporting well-being.
Juno
Housing Safety: Co-Designing Early Information to Prevent Homelessness
Extending on the early intervention model co-designed by the Women's Housing Alliance with people with lived experience of homelessness and family violence, this work addresses a critical gap where many in unsafe or unstable situations are not considered homeless enough to access support.
Kevin Heinze Grow
Climate Smart Food & Cooling Hub
Helping climate-impacted communities reduce heat risk, conserve water and grow resilient food gardens through workshops and practical resources, as well as targeted outreach to priority communities, and permanent signage and demonstration displays at the Coburg site.
Killara Foundation
Ngarrgu Djerring Training & Employment Intake Program
Culturally safe, community-led training and employment pathways supporting First Nations young people through tailored intake, job-readiness training, mentoring, case management and workplace advocacy to build confidence, skills, cultural identity and sustainable employment outcomes.
La Mama Theatre
La Mama Theatre Hope Punk Climate Festival
A festival inspiring climate action through performance, storytelling, workshops, and talks delivered over 20 days in Naarm/Melbourne.
OFFICE AU LIMITED
OFFICE - Architecture and Design for the Public Good
As Australia's only non-profit architecture practice, OFFICE bridges the gap between marginalised communities and high-quality design, and projects delivered across greater Melbourne champion housing, climate, economic and First Nations justice, ensuring that thoughtful design is a tool for equity rather than a luxury of wealth.
Port Phillip EcoCentre
Collective Capacity-Building for Reconnection and Resilience
A calendar of climate events presented in the new Port Phillip EcoCentre community hub to help community and community-facing workers connect, learn, lead and take hopeful action together in a changing climate.
Solar Citizens
Melbourne Urban Renewable Energy Zones: A Roadmap for Community Energy & Grid Resilience
Working with Melbourne councils, businesses and community groups, Solar Citizens will develop a model and business case with Nexa Energy to show how coordinated rooftop solar and shared batteries, and upscaling these assets on commercial and industrial areas, can cut bills, boost resilience, and expand access for renters.
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation
Kitchen Garden ACCHO Phase 2
Extension of the Kitchen Garden Program with Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (ACCHO) and other ACCHOs across Victoria and building upon the previous success with nine organisations to develop new skills in climate, economic, and social issues, via the power of cooking and gardening.
The Foundation for Young Australians
YLab 26-29 Strategy: A Better Future Designed with Young People
A youth-led consultancy that partners with young people to design better systems will employ young people aged 16-26 as Associates and Senior Associates on systems change projects tackling economic injustice in Greater Melbourne.
The Torch Project
The Torch: Statewide Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community Program
Addressing the First Peoples over-incarceration crisis through the transformative power of art, cultural connection, and economic opportunity, this project will directly support the delivery and expansion of The Torch's Statewide Indigenous Arts in Prison and Community program and continue to engage First Peoples artists post-release.
The Trustee for Inner North Community Foundation Community Charity Trust
Strengthening Community Capital & Wealth Building for Climate and Economic Justice
Establishment of a Northside Community Capital Learning and Action Network focused on climate adaptation, economic empowerment and community wealth building, participants will build the capability to shape capital in ways that deliver locally led, equitable and regenerative outcomes.
Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
Volunteer Support to Extend our Civil Law Reach at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
Support for eight volunteers within the Civil Law team to strengthen their work in housing, fines and climate disaster related matters.
Victorian Pride Centre
Safe Foundations
Connecting LGBTIQA+ people facing homelessness in St Kilda to housing stability and employment and delivered from the Victorian Pride Centre, a trusted community ecosystem where housing services, peer support and employment partners share one roof.
Whittlesea Community Connections Inc.
Wollert Community Farm Traditional Foods Production Area
Delivery of a First Nations-led native food system modelling climate resilient agriculture, which will grow and distribute traditional foods while creating community engagement, cultural education, and skills, training and employment pathway opportunities in land care and sustainable food production.
WIRE
Partnering for Sustainability
Six community organisations, WIRE, Council for Single Mothers & their children, Flat Out, Women with Disabilities Victoria, Women & Mentoring and Juno, will strengthen the organisations collective long-term viability by sharing functions such as finance and administration, as well as enabling targeted and gender-informed support, housing safety, and financial advocacy for women and gender diverse people in Melbourne.