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A range of grants are available for new community legal initiatives to support better justice.
Funding for legal initiatives and projects
Better justice requires organisations to understand and respond appropriately to community legal need.
Through our grants program we provide funding and support to new community legal initiatives, leading to better justice.
Our grant foucs areas
Research and data
Projects that develop a new understanding through collection and use of data or assist to improve data capability.
legal interventions
Projects that offer new approaches to delivering legal information or trial a strategy and gain further insights.
Education and communication
Projects that support community needs and improve understanding of the justice system
Grants to fit your project
Our grant rounds run at different times throughout the year.
Build data capability and research skills to better understand and respond to community need.
Help the community to navigate civil legal issues and the Victorian justice system.
Deliver small projects to support community legal need and improve understanding of the justice system.
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Projects we've funded
The project will produce and distribute a series of engaging and informative legal rights messages for a general community broadcasting audience. The short announcements will address issues such as protest rights, renter rights, fines, consumer law and family violence. The content will be tailored to a community radio listening audience.
Legal Forum and Training for frontline workers to better understand jurisdiction complexity and legal assistance pathways for clients with complex and compounding issues.
This project will enable Tenants Victoria to develop an informed understanding of the legal needs of single-parent renters and identify factors to enhance the impact of its legal assistance service model with this cohort.
Westjustice will conduct research into their legal capability to understand their legal needs and adapt legal services to improve access to the service.
Community consultation to ensure resources reflect language, terminology and content that meet the needs of First Nations people.
Reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA) is emerging as a critical and under-researched form of family/intimate partner violence. South-East Monash Legal Service seek to better understand RCA in the legal context, and identify effective strategies and interventions to ensure that the legal assistance sector is able to effectively support disclosures of RCA.
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Get in touch with the Grants team to discuss your idea or learn more about what we fund.