Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO5446
City-Country Partnerships
The City-Country Partnerships program will run over 3 years (2021–22 to 2023–24). A single delivery organisation, or consortium, is expected to be selected through this grant opportunity, to oversee implementation of the City-Country Partnerships program.
A portion of the available funding ($3.810 million of the available $24.603 million GST exclusive) will be for the delivery organisation’s direct costs, with the majority of the funding ($20.793 million) being to support new formal partnerships between large, high performing independent schools and remote schools with a high proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. These partnerships are expected to be enduring and to be developed in close consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education stakeholders.
The successful delivery organisation will administer the funding to selected schools, oversee the partnerships in line with Grant Opportunity Guidelines and source philanthropic support to match government funding. The delivery organisation will recommend partnerships to the department for agreement. Across the lifetime of the partnerships, the delivery organisation will support participating schools to develop and demonstrate sustainability arrangements before Australian Government funding ceases in 2023–24.
Indigenous organisations are encouraged to apply, or to partner with another organisation to deliver the program.
To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:
- Indigenous Corporation
- Company
- Corporate Commonwealth Entity
- Corporate State or Territory Entity
- Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
- Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
- Local Government Entity
- Cooperative
- Incorporated Association
- Statutory Entity
- Partnership
If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.
Applications from consortia are acceptable, as long as you have a lead applicant who is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above.
to apply go to the application form here
Please use the latest version:
GO5446 - Questions and Answers Version 2 - 18 March 2022