Cooperative Initiatives Grants Program: 2025-2029 Grant Opportunity
Tender ID: 587387
Tender Details
Tender Description
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) is the national workplace relations regulator. The FWO’s purpose is to promote harmonious, productive, cooperative and compliant workplace relations in Australia.
Cooperation in the workplace has been shown to provide mutually reinforcing benefits for both businesses and workers through higher levels of economic output, better wages and conditions, and increased trust and retention. The Cooperative Initiatives Grants Program (the program) will fund organisations to partner with other organisations to collaboratively work to identify and resolve workplace issues and promote compliance and positive change across the spectrum of workplace participants.
The objectives of the program are:
- to promote harmonious, productive and compliant workplaces by fostering sustainable partnerships across the spectrum of workplace participants and cooperative engagement with the FWO
- to assist initial development of innovative multi-stakeholder mechanisms that will create systemic and long-lasting change
- to facilitate the provision of assistance to workers and employers covered by the federal workplace relations system.
The intended outcomes of the program are:
- to embed cooperative practices to monitor compliance and prevent non-compliance with Commonwealth workplace laws
- to build capacity of multi-stakeholder mechanisms to deliver meaningful, long-term improvements to workplace practices and relationships
- to prevent non-compliance with Commonwealth workplace laws, create systemic change and/or address drivers of non-compliance.
Eligibility:
We cannot consider your application if you do not satisfy all the eligibility criteria in Section 4 of the guidelines.
The 2025-29 grant opportunity is only open to organisations that will join together as a group to deliver a collaborative project involving eligible grant activities (as specified in Section 5.1 of the guidelines) that achieve the objectives and intended outcomes of the program.
To apply for this grant opportunity, a group of organisations must appoint a ‘lead organisation’. Only the lead organisation can submit the application form and enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth.
To be eligible, you (the lead organisation) must:
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- unless you are GST exempt, be registered for the purposes of GST
- be located in Australia
- have an account with an Australian financial institution
- be a legal entity with the capacity to enter into a legally binding agreement or contract
- be one of the following kinds of entities:
- a charity registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
- a non-charitable not-for-profit
- an industrial association
- a peak council.
Grant Activity Timeframe:
Your application must be for project activities that are undertaken within the four-year period from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2029, and you must complete your project by 30 June 2029.
Total Amount Available (AUD):
$7,200,000.00
Instructions for Application Submission:
Before applying, you must read and understand the guidelines and the example grant agreement.
To apply you must:
- complete the application form
- provide all the information requested
- address all eligibility criteria and assessment criteria
- include all necessary attachments
- meet the text limit requirements
- submit your application/s to GrantConnect by the closing date and time.
Location
New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
Northern Territory : Barkly : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin : Top End
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania