Grant Application Form

If you are applying for a flagship or significant grant to fund a program or initiative, is this funding required over multiple years – provide detailed breakdown of amount required each year including what it covers.

If you are applying for a capacity-building grant, please detail exactly what capacity you are trying to build within your organisation.

Hand Heart Pocket’s main focus for Significant and Flagship Grants is to improve outcomes for youth at risk (primarily aged 15-24 years). However, a portion of our grant funding is also available to provide assistance for initiatives that support men’s mental and physical health, women’s financial and physical security and our ageing population. Start-up organisations which have been in operation for less than three years must have a focus on improving outcomes for youth at risk to be eligible for a grant.

Please ensure that you provide a detailed proposal covering the following points with each section clearly numbered as below:

1. Tell us about your organisation, why it exists and what it does.
2. Please provide detailed information on how many people your organisation provides a service for annually, what are their demographics and where they are located.
3. What is the problem you are trying to address and how is that aligned to Hand Heart Pocket’s ‘Theory of Change’ or strategy?
4. Explain the outcome areas for the program or initiative for which you are seeking funding and how that aligns to Hand Heart Pocket’s Theory of Change. For example:
   a.   Find a stable home. b.   Build a support network. c.   Contribute to the community. d.   Seek help when needed. e.   Gain an education and skills for the future. f.   Find stable paid or volunteer work.
5. How many participants per annum will benefit from this program directly, what are their demographics and where are they located (please explain in detail)?
6. What are the short-term and long-term outcomes you hope to achieve?
7. What activities will you undertake and what programs will you run to achieve those outcomes?
8. What resources will you need and what costs are involved?
9. Does your organisation currently have the capacity to run these programs or have you identified a gap in your capacity to deliver?
10. What partnerships have you formed/plan on forming, in order to deliver these programs?
11. Clearly explain if the programs you are seeking funding for are a pilot program, existing program, extension to an existing program or a planned future program.
    • If it is an existing program or an extension to an existing program, then how is it currently funded?
12. Will the program continue after the proposed funding period and if so, how will it be funded?
13. Will you be providing access to additional wrap-around support services as part of your program, please detail any formal partnerships?
14. What evidence base confirms that your programs achieve / can achieve the desired outcomes?
15. Are there programs elsewhere that have achieved similar outcomes? How have they achieved them and what program elements are included in your programs?
16. How can your organisation help Hand Heart Pocket to achieve its desired outcomes?
17. What is your organisations plan to evaluate your program outcomes and have you budgeted for this?
18. Please provide the relevant supporting documentation outlined in the supporting documentation checklist overleaf

Additional supporting documentation to be attached if available to assist your application:

Document requested Attached