Closes: Ongoing
Purves Environmental Foundation grants gifts (funds) to enable and empower others working towards environmental sustainability and preservation of biodiversity.
We aim to:
- Act as catalyst to change
- Fill gaps in effecting change
- Break down barriers to action
- Support creation of new thinking and practice
- Provide bold leadership
- Encourage participation of stakeholders
Current Regular Giving funding focus areas:
Degradation of key biodiversity habitat
We aim to support initiatives that seek to advocate for prevention of destruction of biodiversity habitat through improvement in policies and management, backed by best available science.
Unsustainable management of natural resources
We aim to support key initiatives and organisations that seek to improve policies on environmental management of natural resources, in particular freshwater, by using best available science.
Pollution
We aim to support initiatives that seek to improve policies, regulations, or schemes that mitigate pollution, in particular soft plastics.
For more Information: https://www.purvesenvirofund.org.au
Our Funding Process
EOI Submission
All interested applicants must complete an Expression of Interest (EOI) prior to proceeding to an application. EOIs must be submitted online via the button below. Applicant must fulfill eligibility criteria and demonstrate alignment with our core objectives and purposes, and our current focus funding areas.
Preliminary Assessment
EOI submissions will be assessed and applicants will be notified by email as to whether the proposal will or won't progress to full application. The Environmental Officer may contact you to seek additional information to support the assessment process at this time.
EOI submission here: https://www.purvesenvirofund.org.au/funding/expression-of-interest
Formal Application Submission
If your initiative is deemed to meet the Fund's scope, the Environmental Officer will advise you via email to submit a formal application for consideration by the Fund's board. Submission deadline and timing of consideration by the board will be informed at this stage.
Board Assessment
Your application for funding will be considered by the Fund's board. The Board meets four times a year and you will be notified of the decision within two weeks of the meeting.
Please note that an invitation to submit a formal application does not mean that your application will be funded. Final decision is at the discretion of the Fund's board.
