Multicultural Community Education Grant 2024 Round

The purpose of the Multicultural Community Education Grant (MCEG) is to support multicultural health and community organisations/programs in NSW to deliver bowel cancer screening, breast cancer screening, cervical screening, and healthy living focused community education initiatives.

They invite organisations with strong working relationships with local culturally and linguistically diverse communities to apply for grant funding to:

• upskill staff within their organisations (with support from the Institute) to provide community education on a chosen cancer screening and prevention topic(s)
• deliver community education sessions on a chosen topic(s) to people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds using the Cancer Institute NSW resources.

The grant round will focus on the following programs:

• Bowel cancer screening
• Breast cancer screening
• Cervical screening
• Healthy living for cancer prevention

To be eligible for funding in the 2024 grant round:

1. The lead applicant must be a NSW Local Health District, other NSW government organisation, Primary Health Network or community/non-government organisation currently involved in the direct provision of health education, information, care and support services to community members.
2. The project must commence in February 2025.
3. All obligations regarding previously funded projects involving the applicants must have been fulfilled to the satisfaction of the Institute. Such obligations include the provision of satisfactory progress, final and financial reports.