Community sector resources

Port Phillip Community Training Calendar 2025

• Grant Writing Workshop (in person) - Monday 12 May 2025

  Time: 9.30 am to 12 midday

  This free grant writing training session will cover all aspects of grant writing from where to find grants, understanding the guidelines and selection criteria, working through an application and budget and how to frame your project.

  Location: Community Training Room, St Kilda Town Hall 99A Carlisle Street, St Kilda VIC 3182

  Enter via Carlisle Street and wait in the foyer to be collected.

  Presenter: Debby Maziarz

  Bookings essential: https://www.trybooking.com/CZQVB

• Grant writing for Creatives 2025 (online) - Monday 19 May 2025

  Time: 6 to 8.30 pm

  This free grant writing training session will share:

  • practical and transferable ways to approach grant writing for arts and cultural projects
  • developing and communicating your project idea and your project plan
  • developing budgets and funding strategy
  • working with an auspice organisation
  • finding project partners
  • presenting support material
  • evaluating your project

  Presenter: Debby Maziarz

  Sharyn Dawson, Arts Grants and Funding Organiser 03 9209 6165

  Bookings essential: https://www.trybooking.com/CZQVG

• Grant Writing Workshop (online) - Thursday 22 May 2025

  Time: 6 to 8.30 pm

  This free grant writing training session will cover all aspects of grant writing from where to find grants, understanding the guidelines and selection criteria, working through an application and budget and how to frame your project.

  The link to this online event to be provided by the event organiser.

  Presenter: Debby Maziarz

  Bookings essential: https://www.trybooking.com/CZQVC

• Building Aboriginal Cultural Competency for Community Groups - Wednesday 28 May

  Time: 6 to 8.30 pm

  Topics include:

  • Cultural competence – meaning and importance.
  • Australian settlement history (setting the scene and the legacy impact of colonisation on attitudes and lifestyle choices).
  • The building blocks of identity (definitions of Aboriginality; Aboriginal family values, land and identity, lore, dreaming and creation; myths of settlement).
  • The building blocks of identity – the Aboriginal community today (saying sorry, terminologies and statistical outline of Australia’s Indigenous population).
  • An introduction to developing personal strategies for working more effectively with Aboriginal people.
    
    Morning tea included. *Limit of 2 tickets per organisation.

  Bookings essential: https://www.trybooking.com/DBHNL

  Location: The Garden Studio, Gasworks Arts Park

   

• Fundraising for your Community Group - Thursday 29 May 2025

  Time: 9.30 am to 12 midday

  In the lead up to a new financial year it's timely to develop a fundraising plan for your community group.

  Not-for-profit organisations often have a limited amount of money at their disposal and if one income stream comes to an end; sometimes it can also be the end for the organisation. 

  This session will help community organisations to review their current fundraising practices and look to the secure their future with alternative solutions. At the end of this session, members / groups will have constructed a three-year funding plan that fits.

  Topics include:

  • Reviewing the right approach for a community organisation
  • Knowing what skills are needed to succeed
  • Setting a plan for who is responsible for what
  • Appreciating the pros and cons of different modes of fundraising
  • Embedding fundraising as part of the everyday

  Delivered by: Not for Profit Training

  Where: Community Training Room, St Kilda Townhall, 99A Carlisle Street, St Kilda

  Bookings essential: https://www.trybooking.com/DAVYI