- Schools Plus: Smart Giving Grants
Through the Smart Giving program, Schools Plus provides up to $60,000 funding and resources to enable schools to implement a broad range of initiatives.
Applications for this year’s grant round will open from 8 August to 9 September 2022, for projects lasting 12-18 months.
To be eligible, your school must have a value below 1000 on the Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA) - Check your school's eligibility here
Schools with no ICSEA value must contact Schools Plus to determine eligibility, except for special needs schools which are eligible.
Submissions for strategic projects range in value:
- Up to $30,000 for an individual school project
- Up to $60,000 for projects by a cluster of schools
What sort of projects can be supported through Smart Giving?
- Projects that start in Term 1, 2023, aligned to your school's long-term strategic plan.
- Innovative projects that trial new designs or strategies that have a sound research base and the potential for significant transformational change.
- The project can extend an existing school initiative that is having a proven impact, or it could replicate projects where existing strategies are being tried in a new location or with a new group.
- All projects must lead to improved learning outcomes for students in schools facing disadvantage.
- Projects must clearly identify the student focussed intervention, why change is needed, how the project will enable the change to be achieved and the difference the change will make to students and the broader school community.
- Project submissions will identify what evidence or research is available to support the purpose and design of the project, how you will measure the change it creates and how you will share that information with us.
- Projects must be supported by the school leadership team and have an ongoing and sustainable benefit to the school community.
Please read the Guidelines for further information about what can be supported and examples of unsupported projects.