Funding Opportunity: First Nations Arts Business Grants
Arts Queensland
Supports Queensland-based First Nations arts and cultural practitioners, organisations and businesses to access business development services that:
- strengthen cultural governance, business and strategic planning
- increase corporate and commercial capacity to grow new revenue and market opportunities
- enable professional upskilling and development for board and/or staff.
Grants are available to fund the purchase of the following eligible services:
- strategic and business planning
- governance planning and related training
- data and digital platforms and related training
- financial processes including e-commerce and related training
- human resources advice including succession planning.
You must provide quotes to support the amount of funding requested.
You can provide quotes for multiple services, however if the quotes exceed a total of $10,000, you will only receive a maximum of $10,000 and will be responsible for the payment of any related expenses in the excess of the $10,000 grant funding.
Funding Available: One-off grant of up to $10,000 (excluding GST)
Important Dates:
- The fund will close on 30 June 2024 or when funds for this grants program are expended.
Eligibility
To be eligible, all applicants must:
- be a Queensland based First Nations artist, artsworker or a First Nations arts organisation/arts business
- have an active ABN – with a business location in Queensland
- have a bank account in the name of the applicant
- not be a recipient of any of the following Arts Queensland funding:
- First Nations Pathways Fund;
- Organisations Fund prior to 1 July 2022;
- annual funding of $500,000 or more per financial year (from Arts Queensland)
- attach a supplier quote for the activity the funding will support.
Other eligibility conditions apply, please read the fund guidelines for all eligibility criteria and compulsory support material.
