Grant Rounds Funding
The Honig Foundation is focused on making a meaningful difference to Australian citizens residing in Australia. We actively encourage innovative, start-up style solutions to the challenges faced by people experiencing disadvantage in our community.
Below are the community organisations and projects that have received support from The Honing Foundation:
Airdrops into Remote NT Communities
Pilots helicopter food and hygiene airdrops to deliver essential supplies to vulnerable people in remote Northern Territory communities.
Closing the Nappy Gap in the NT
Delivers essential nappies to remote Northern Territory communities where local donations cannot meet demand.
Closing the Nappy Gap Collaboration
A collaboration project delivering approximately 16,000 nappies by helicopter airdrop to families in remote Northern Territory communities.
Teen Clothing Packs
Provides new winter clothing packs for vulnerable teenagers to promote dignity, confidence and wellbeing.
Access Fringe
Provides tailored artist support, accessible presentation pathways and audience access services to ensure the festival is genuinely open to everyone. The program strengthens disability leadership, supports creative autonomy and expands access across the organisation.
Fanaticus
A creative collaboration engaging diverse young people to develop and perform a free, family-friendly show, building confidence, connection and wellbeing through a fun, playful process.
Cultivating Culture: Inclusive Arts in the Garden
An arts and culture program supporting older Australians, particularly those living with disability and social isolation.
The Mill’s Disability Access Studio Residency
Increases authentic representation and sustainable practice for disabled artists in South Australia through a 6-month studio residency at The Mill, supporting practice development and opportunities to share work.
Everybody Can Move with FLING
Supports access needs in the studio by enabling additional support staff across classes, rehearsals and performances, so participants with disabilities and neurodiversity can engage fully and safely.
Inclusive Performance Program
Includes children and young people with disabilities, creating opportunities to shine on stage or behind the scenes.
Elders Exchange
Connects First Nations communities and older Australians through arts and storytelling to build respect, connection and cultural awareness.
Orange Sky School Laundry
Delivering a practical service that meets an essential need by installing laundry facilities in schools, helping to build life skills, reduce barriers to school attendance, and complement existing school support programs.
Lokahi Empowerment Project
A capacity-building initiative designed to strengthen Lokahi Foundation's leadership, enabling the enhancement of services for women and children affected by domestic and family abuse.
Sustained Employment and Housing Pilot Project
Provide housing support and tailored employment assistance to at-risk youth, helping them transition from homelessness to self-sufficiency. The goal is for participants to achieve ongoing education, training or employment, while progressing through the housing continuum.
The Next Step
Training and employment for neurodivergent young adults.
Orange Essentials
Exploring a model to support people experiencing homelessness to access essential items with dignity, while also reducing unnecessary waste.
Orange Sky Trust Exchange
Testing the feasibility of providing safe, small-scale storage solutions to support people doing it tough.
Reversing the Impact of Childhood Poverty – Hunter Scale Up
Expand access to disadvantaged children in rural Hunter locations such as Muswellbrook, Singleton, Cessnock, and Dungog. Introduce a delivery service to ensure essentials reach vulnerable children when needed.
Innovative Orthotic Clinics in Sydney
Unlocking better outcomes through digital solutions, streamlined service delivery and therapist collaboration.
Mobile Medical Van
Taking the medical service ‘on the road’ to where the need is greatest, is an innovative and targeted approach to providing access and addressing movement constraints for the most vulnerable.
Laptops for Learning
Providing refurbished laptops to women and girls who have been unable to engage in online education due to economic disadvantage, family violence or homelessness.
'Lively Helper' Employment Program
Providing young jobseekers with stable employment and critical skill development opportunities, as well as supported pathways into the growing care workforce.
Empower Scholarships
Providing scholarships for young adults who have lived experience in foster care.
MECA Building Resilient Leaders Program
Engaging community leaders in professional and personal development, upskilling, networking, and relationship and coalition building with other small and large communities.
Youth Mower Shed
Expansion of youth ‘Mower Shed’ social enterprise to provide more employment opportunities to vulnerable youth in the A.C.T.
We Care Hunter
Providing pre-loved children’s items such as car seats, cots, prams and clothing to vulnerable children. This project expands the Central Coast operations into the Hunter to provide practical essentials to over 1,500 disadvantaged children each year.
Hope and Healing project
Supporting Aboriginal people on the Mornington Peninsula to rebuild their lives after being in contact with the criminal justice system.
Dental Support
Addressing an identified gap in clients’ dental needs by providing advanced and complex dental care such as root canal, crowns, dentures, orthodontics and more.