Investing in Women - 2026/27

The purpose of the Investing in Women Funding Program is to fund innovative projects that focus on the three pillars that align with the NSW Women’s Strategy (2023 – 2026).

Projects must involve high-quality activity, engagement, and participation designed with and for one of the focus communities in the NSW Women’s Strategy 2023-2026:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls
• carers
• girls and young women living in, or who have lived in, out-of-home care
• lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer and/or asexual (LGBTIQA+) women and girls
• older women
• women and girls experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage
• women and girls facing homelessness
• women and girls from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities
• women and girls in contact with the criminal justice system
• women and girls living in regional, rural, remote and cross-border areas
• women and girls with disability
• women and girls with a mental illness
• women and girls who have a history of, or are currently experiencing, domestic, family or sexual violence
• women veterans (and the women partners of veterans and service members)
• young women

To be eligible, applicants must:

• be a legally constituted Australian-based entity. This includes:
  • Incorporated not-for-profit organisations, including community organisations
  • Social enterprises, defined as a business that trades primarily for a defined social purpose consistent with a public and/or community benefit
  • Majority women-owned and managed small businesses
• have an active Australian Business Number (ABN)
• have appropriate public liability insurance (minimum of $10 million).
• address the NSW National Redress Scheme sanctions (included in these guidelines).
• have an account with an Australian Authorised deposit-taking institution
• not have outstanding acquittals with Women NSW
• not be receiving or have received government assistance from another program for the proposed project or a similar project
• include an applicant contribution (cash or in-kind) of a minimum 10 percent of the total project cost (not 10 percent of the amount of funding sought)
• provide a budget for their project
• be a single organisation that will accept responsibility for the delivery of the project if the application is successful.