Employment Support Grant

Organisations helping reduce barriers to employment for young people and households with children can apply for new grant funding to take their work to the next level.

Organisations with a charitable purpose or social impact mission (including social enterprises) can use the funding to establish or deliver new initiatives focused on employment in these target groups, scale initiatives already backed by evidence, or build the evidence base of what works for securing the program outcomes and supporting the target populations.

The target populations for the Employment Open Grant Round are:

• Young people, aged 15-24, at risk, or not engaged in education, employment or training; and
• Households with children with no one employed.

These broad populations include, for example, First Nations people, refugees and people seeking asylum, people living with a disability or super ability, and people living in rural and remote communities.