Investing in Rural Community Futures
You can use the categories to the right to explore particular topics. You’ll also find inspiring stories about some of the wonderful things community groups do with that funding. We also share a selection of media stories, where FRRR or a member of our staff has been featured. For any media enquiries, email Julie Weldon or call 0423 110 802.
Further boost for South Coast NFPs
05 Nov 2024 – Thirteen South Coast NFPs are sharing more than $166,000 in funding for projects aimed at strengthening their capacity to support their local communities.
Victorian philanthropics unite to back rural communities
24 May 2024 – Four VIC philanthropics have joined forces in a $5M partnership with FRRR that will strengthen the capacity and resilience of communities over the next 5 years.
South Coast NFPs get funding boost from FRRR and partners
22 Nov 2023 – NFPs across the NSW South Coast are sharing more than $360,000 across 27 projects that will strengthen their capacity to support their local communities.
Connecting the Southern Shoalhaven community
18 Sep 2023 – Community Connect Southern Shoalhaven was set up as a vehicle to coordinate activities and deliver on community-identified roadmap priorities.
Bega Valley and Shoalhaven’s not-for-profits to benefit from boost in leadership capacity to drive bushfire recovery
03 Apr 2023 – Leaders of local not-for-profit organisations in the Bega Valley and Shoalhaven region are invited to apply for locally-delivered leadership development programs, Regenerate Bega Valley and Regenerate Shoalhaven, designed to build…
IRCF Bega Valley project begins to roll out
02 Mar 2023 – FRRR and Bega Valley Shire Council have announced the start of a new initiative under the $1.3 million Australian Government Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Program. Investing in Rural Community Futures…
$1.3 million investment starts rolling out in South Coast communities
13 Feb 2023 – FRRR announced today that they have appointed two facilitators in the Shoalhaven region to support the ongoing delivery of their Investing in Rural Communities Futures program.
Bega Valley communities receive a $1.3 million bushfire recovery boost
23 Nov 2022 – The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal today welcomed the expansion of the place-based Investing in Rural Community Futures (IRCF) program to the Bega Valley, thanks to an injection of…
Shoalhaven fire-affected communities receive a $1.3 million recovery boost
23 Nov 2022 – The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal today shared that a $1.3 million funding boost for the Shoalhaven region to further enhance the capacity of local not-for-profit organisations to support…
Junee, Leeton and Nambucca Valley NFPs given $450,000 boost
17 Nov 2022 – Eleven not-for-profits (NFPs) in Junee, Leeton and Nambucca Valley will share in $444,063 in grants. The funding is thanks to FRRR, in partnership with Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation (VFFF).