The Australian Government values our success as a multicultural nation.
Our multicultural grant programs:
- strengthen Australia’s social inclusion
- support multicultural communities to be active in Australia
- help multicultural communities contribute to Australia.
Latest News
More information on Infrastructure Multicultural Communities grants is now available. See
Grant Connect Forecast Opportunity View - FO2025-5201.
More information on Independent Multicultural Media – transformation and sustainability is now available. See GrantConnect
Forecast Opportunity View - FO2025-4933.
More information on Multicultural Grassroots Initiatives – Round Two is now available. See
Forecast Opportunity View - FO2025-4984.
Find and apply for grant opportunities
To find and apply for grant opportunities, see the Australian Government’s grants information system, GrantConnect.
To be notified about new grant opportunities you can subscribe to the
Community Grants Hub mailing list.
Supporting Multicultural Communities Program
The Australian Government is investing over $170 million over 3 years from 2025-26 to provide direct support to multicultural communities. This is in line with the 2025 election commitments.
The Supporting Multicultural Communities Program will be funded through multiple closed non-competitive grants rounds. We will manage these rounds in 3 streams:
- major infrastructure and renovations
- minor renovations and amenities
- events and programs.
Up to 160 eligible organisations will receive an invitation to apply for this this targeted, non-competitive grant to support their community-driven initiatives.
To deliver these election commitments, we will follow Department of Finance’s
grants process. This includes developing grant opportunity guidelines to inform proposed grantees of the:
- process they will need to follow to apply for a grant
- factors that we will consider in making our decision
- obligations that we expect proposed grantees to satisfy.
Grant opportunity guidelines are the authoritative source of information for grant applicants and other stakeholders. Funding can only be approved when there is satisfaction that the project would be an efficient, effective, economical and ethical use of relevant money.
We will update this page with more information when it becomes available. We will also give information about specific grants to registered organisations via email.
We expect to release Grant opportunity guidelines from November 2025 on
GrantConnect.
Community Language School Grants Program
The Australian Government is investing $25.6 million over 4 years from 2025-26, to support young Australians to learn or maintain a language other than English.
This grants program will:
- strengthen Australia’s social inclusion
- help preserve language within multicultural communities
- connect young Australians to the languages of their parents, grandparents and communities
- enable young Australians to participate in a broader range of jobs in the global market.
This program will include 2 streams of funding.
- Stream one will provide $15 million to community language schools. This grant funding can be used to support the operational costs of program delivery, professional development and teacher training, or to develop new online teaching material to boost enrolments.
- Stream Two will provide $5 million to support more students to become fluent in Asian languages to Years 11 and 12.
Funding is also being provided for the administration of the program.
We will publish more information about this grant opportunity, including how organisations can apply for new funding or extend existing funding arrangements, here and on
GrantConnect when it becomes available.
Modernised Multicultural Grants Program
The Modernised Multicultural Grants program supports a strong multicultural Australia by:
- giving more consistent and long-term funding to multicultural organisations
- fostering more certainty and sustainability for multicultural organisations
- strengthening their ability to serve both members of their own community and broader society
- supporting longer-term initiatives and lasting results.
The funding will support organisations to:
- hold local events
- celebrate festivals
- build and deliver support programs
- improve amenities
- build facilities.
This program provides funding through the following grants.
