Confident Girls Foundation – Suncorp Spirit Fund

This program aims to support netball and community organisations directly affected by natural disaster events across 2019 and/or 2020.

The Foundation's granting philosophies are:
- Community need and impact: Programs that meet a genuine, identified need and that have the potential for significant or direct community impact and benefit, and broader implementation.
- Innovation and sustainability: Programs that offer innovative and creative solutions to issues and programs that have the potential to be sustainable over the longer term.
- Linkages: The Foundation will support and embrace organisations and individuals that work in cooperation and partnership within their program work and that actively encourage collaboration with key stakeholders in a given field.

Grants of up to $2,500 are available.

Eligible applicants include local not-for-profit netball community organisations in natural disaster-affected locations, who work closely with their local community. Organisations must have either an ABN or incorporation certificate and will be required in the application process to demonstrate how grant funding will be of broad community benefit.

Eligible activities include those that are focussed on infrastructure, purchasing equipment, covering the cost of registrations and fees for participants, holding clinics and special community events and supplying uniforms.

Broader netball and community activities that may also be considered include:
- Projects that are recovery focused and aim to build on the netball community’s and members’ resilience.
- Healing and capacity building.
- Projects that focus on practical advice and skills development (e.g. for parents to help provide support for their children).
- Addressing particular needs of isolated older women.
- Future netball club bushfire planning and preparedness.

The main assessment criteria include:
- Evidence that netball organisation grant recipient is located in a natural disaster affected area.
- Projects that strengthen social connectedness, emotional wellbeing and resilience, and assist netball communities to recover and heal from natural disaster.
- Projects that offer a clear public benefit for some or all of the netball and broader community impacted by the natural disaster.
- Projects that offer value for money (both to the netball and broader community and the Confident Girls Foundation).
- Projects that have outcomes or performance indicators against which the project can be evaluated.

The following are ineligible for funding:
- Initiatives that duplicate existing activities and services.
- Activities that are covered under an insurance claim.
- Programs outside of communities classed as rural, regional or remote areas of Queensland.
- Communities that were not impacted by a natural disaster in 2019 and/or 2020.
- Activities that, in the Foundation’s reasonable opinion, are unrelated to natural disaster recovery.
- Initiatives that would require ongoing funding.
- Alcohol and tobacco purchases for community or other events.
- Events incorporating a gambling component or game of chance.
- Projects that subsidise commercial activities (e.g. ongoing business operational costs).
- Retrospective funding (projects which are already completed are not eligible for consideration).
- Applications for activities taking place outside of Australia.
- Applications for projects that have previously been declined by the Foundation cannot be resubmitted unless there are material changes to the project.
- Applications will not be accepted from organisations that have not successfully acquitted previous grants from the Foundation.