Food Source Victoria Fund

Keep an eye out for the new Food Source Victoria Fund, opening in July.

The new $20 million Food Source Victoria initiative seeks to encourage collaboration and partnership across the agri-food industry, with the aim of increasing exports, building capability and creating jobs in regional Victoria.

Food Source Victoria will comprise two funding programs:

• The FSV Fund: a contestable funding program to assist regional Victorian agri-food alliances and value chain partnerships to identify and implement business development, training, supply chain and market development initiatives to increase exports and help create jobs.

• The FSV Scholarships Program: a study and training grants program to support ambitious professionals in regional agri-food businesses, with a focus on business management, export readiness and entrepreneurship. At least $1 million of this $2 million program will be dedicated to supporting scholarships for women.

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FRRR ABC Heywire Youth Innovation Grants

FRRR and its donor partners, including The Sally Foundation, are providing up to $100,000 to assist not-for-profit organisations in rural, regional and remote Australian communities to ‘adopt’ and act on one of this year’s eight Heywire innovative project ideas as listed below and profiled in this video - a quick overview of 2015’s eight ideas.

Applications that tap into the strengths of young people and adapt the idea to their own local situation are encouraged. Successful grant applicants will have control over how the project is implemented in their community, but will be encouraged to make contact with the young people who initially developed the idea (facilitated by Heywire).

Applications close 12 June 2015

http://www.frrr.org.au/grants/Heywire-youth-innovation