The Small Grants Program funds Victorian community-based projects conducted by the following types of organisations and individuals:

1. Not-for-profit organisation
2. Disability and/or Self-Advocacy group
3. Social enterprise
4. Disability service provider
5. Local government authority
6. Public school
7. Health service provider*
8. Peak body*

*Must be collaborating with an organisation listed from 1 – 6.

Grants of up to $50,000 (GST exclusive) are available through the Small Grants Program.

Past Small Grants Program projects include:

• Barwon Valley School: Using smart technology devices to increase student participation in physical activity, reduce sedentary behaviour and increase the intensity of exercises to meet WHO guidelines of moderate to vigorous intensity.
• Care Companions Monash: Improving the quality of life and overall inclusion of TAC clients and Victorians with a disability from a Chinese background through the power of music and community.
• EnAccess Maps: Encouraging people with disability and TAC clients to actively engage with their surroundings and increase their community participation by improving accessibility, accuracy and user-friendliness of the EnAccess Maps platform.
• Inclusion Melbourne: Creating a freely available, accessible, easy-language, benchmarked and customised practice guide for people with ABI, their families, supporters and services to implement the Circles of Support model.
• Victorian Advocacy League for Individuals with Disability (VALID): Meeting a critical, unmet need in Victoria for advocacy support for people with acquired brain injury, including TAC clients.
• Brain Injury Matters: Co-designing, piloting and evaluating training workshops designed to support people living with an acquired brain injury to re-establish, build, and navigate positive relationships.
• Heads Together for ABI: Co-designing a virtual and in-person cooking program to support young adults with brain injury to learn cooking skills with peers, build autonomy, confidence and connections.
• Australian Federation of Disability Organisations: Co-designing and evaluating a training program and resources to build the capability of small to medium businesses to be disability confident and inclusive.
• Stonnington City Council: Producing printed and interactive mobility maps for priority areas within the Stonnington municipality to support people with disability to travel safely and independently.
• Youth Disability Advocacy Service: Co-designing and producing resources for young people with a disability to foster disability pride and positive community attitudes.