Music For All welcomes opportunities to directly support or partner with community groups and organisations that are engaged in delivering projects and initiatives that bring, develop or sustain music-making, learning or participation to the communities in which they serve.

Please be aware that:

• The funder will only support applications from within Australia
• Your application will need to demonstrate support from within your community/organisation through referee statements
• The funder does not fund retrospectively however we will consider supporting ongoing or expanding already established programs or activities
• The funder will prioritise applications to those most in need along with additional selection criteria (see below)
• The process takes around 12 weeks/months from application to outcome notification

Selection criteria: 

• Impact: How many musicians will the project create and support
• Viability: Where the proposed program is new or developmental what is the likelihood of success and what are the key indicators of success
• Sustainability: Is the initiative, program or activity likely to be self-sustaining as Music For All funding is not on going
• Stability: Considers the history of the organisation, its status (e.g., its formal structure/registration), leadership, evidence of community/sector support
• Innovation: Does the application propose/offer any innovations. Innovations can take many forms - musical, pedagogical, social impacts or simply that the initiative is to bring innovations, ideas and/or approaches available elsewhere into your community
• Need: Demonstrated need

Applications will considered from a range of groups including:

• Schools and educational organisations
• Universities*
• Community music groups - choirs, bands etc
• Organisations working in youth or social/community services
• Allied health organisations
• Organisations working in education with interests in music, arts or the creative sector
• Community based creative sector organisations or enterprises
• Philanthropic organisations where common interests are shared and a viable partnership can be established

*It would not be Music For All's normal practice to support pure research activities, however, programs undertaken by universities that include implementable and practical music-making outcomes as either proof of concept or in a seeding arrangement would be considered.

• Email: info@musicforall.org.au