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WESNET Capacity Building Grants Project 2008

APPLICATIONS CLOSED

 

 

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WESNET is pleased to announce that 22 grants have been selected for funding as part of the Capacity Building Grants Project.

A total of 157 applications were submitted to WESNET for consideration. The Assessment Panel, comprising five-members of the WESNET committee spent over 11 hours on teleconferences and many, many more hours reading and considering all the applications and assessing each against the selection criteria.

The competition for funding was very strong and WESNET would like to thank everyone who took the time and effort to prepare an application for funding.  

The following organisations will be funded under the grants program.

SUCCESSFUL GRANT APPLICANTS

Organisation

Amount

Project

Emergency Accommodation Support Enterprise Inc (EASE)

$50,000

Loddon Campaspe Family Violence co-ordinated Community Response

Older Women's Network NSW Inc.

$50,000

Pathways for Referral: Reducing Violence against Older Women

Women's Health Goulburn North East

 $46,170

Partner Rape-Know About It, Respond effectively, Prevent it: An educational DVD, for health professionals and community members

Immigration Women's Domestic Violence Service (IWDVS)

 $44,139

Engaging Multicultural Faith and Community Leaders in the Early Prevention & Intervention of Violence against Women

Women’s Legal Services Australia (sponsored by Women’s Legal Service Victoria)

$44,128

Keeping women safe: best practice and comparative legal approaches

North Queensland Combined Women's Services Inc (Also known as the Women's Centre)

$43,486

Stopping Domestic Violence Billboard Project

Women’s Legal Service (Qld)

$43,030

Domestic Violence Death Review Board Project, Stage 2

Women’s Centre for Health Matters

$40,835

Access and respite for women with disabilities experiencing domestic violence by the ACT Domestic Violence sector

Domestic Violence Resource Centre (Victoria)

$37,444

Leadership & Women With Disabilities: Capacity Building in Violence Prevention

Aboriginal Family Support Services Inc.

$25,818

Children Growing Big and Strong

Aboriginal Culture and Resource Centre Inc (ACRC)

$24,499

Strong Women, Safe Communities

Central Domestic Violence Service

$20,660

 “Getting Talking” empowering Liberian women to address issues of domestic violence and promote healthy relationships.

Huon Domestic Violence Service

$7,557

Safe at Home's Greatest Hits

ACT Women and Prisons (ACTCOSS Auspicing)

$2,000

Entering the Prison Kits

Carrie's Place Women's and Children's Service Inc

$2,000

Choir of no more knocks

MiiMi Mothers Aboriginal Corporation

$2,000

Nambucca Valley Indigenous Women's Support Group

Central Domestic Violence Service Inc

$2,000

Creating Intentional Families: A resource to support mothers who have experienced domestic violence

ACT Chinese Women Association (Inc)

$2,000

Intervention and Prevention of Domestic Violence for Australian Women and Children on Chinese Background

Women's House Shelta

$1,965

Domestic Violence and Child Protection Forum: exploring best practice from a feminist perspective

Clarendon Vale Neighbourhood Centre Inc

$1,960

FUTI/POP - "Facing Up To It and Playing Our Part

Eastern Region Domestic Violence Services Network Inc

$1,680

Printing of Police Domestic Violence Handouts

Malangenna Childcare Centre

$765

Domestic Violence Support Package for Staff and Families

All applicants should receive an email letting them know the outcome of their application(s) by 27 October 2008.

  Click here to see the original application kit

 

 

 

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