{"id":5922,"date":"2013-03-26T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T03:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2013-03-26T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T03:20:52","slug":"funding-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/03\/26\/funding-opportunity","title":{"rendered":"Funding Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Volunteer Grants 2013?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/03\/26\/funding-opportunity\/attachment\/volunteering-grants\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5923\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5923\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/03\/Volunteering-Grants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Grants 2013 recognises the valuable work of Australia\u2019s volunteers. This initiative forms part of the Australian Government\u2019s ongoing commitment to organisations whose volunteers assist disadvantaged communities and encourage inclusion of vulnerable people in community life. Funding is for eligible not-for-profit community organisations to assist their volunteers and encourage volunteering.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Grants 2013 provides funding between $1,000 and $5,000 to help not-for-profit organisations to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Purchase portable, tangible, small equipment items to help their volunteers<\/li>\n<li>Contribute to the reimbursement of fuel costs for their volunteers who use their own car to transport others to activities, deliver food, assist with medical appointments or help people in need<\/li>\n<li>Contribute to the reimbursement of transport costs incurred by volunteers with disability who are unable to drive<\/li>\n<li>Contribute to the costs of training courses and\/or undertake background screening checks for their volunteers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>$16 million is available for Volunteer Grants 2013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apply when?<\/p>\n<p>from 15\/03\/2013\u00a0 to 24\/04\/2013<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Volunteer Grants 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fahcsia.gov.au\/communities-and-vulnerable-people\/grants-funding\/volunteer-grants-2013-call-for-applications-now-open\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more information.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Volunteer Grants 2013? Volunteer Grants 2013 recognises the valuable work of Australia\u2019s volunteers. This initiative forms part of the Australian Government\u2019s ongoing commitment to organisations whose volunteers assist disadvantaged communities and encourage inclusion of vulnerable people in community life. Funding is for eligible not-for-profit community organisations to assist their volunteers and encourage volunteering. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}