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Women's Leadership and Development Programme Grants 2005 - 2006 Round 2

In May 2006 the Hon. Julie Bishop MP, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women’s Issues, announced that ten women’s organisations would receive grants under Round 2 of the 2005-06 Women’s Leadership and Development Programme. These organisations will share in over $325,000 to undertake policy and capacity building projects.

The funding will enable these organisations to deliver projects that contribute to public policy/service development or that increase the effectiveness of the organisation. Grants of up to $50,000 were available for policy projects and up to $25,000 for capacity building projects.

The organisations offered project funding were:

Organisation	Amount	Project
YWCA	$10,00	National Corporate Governance Training for Young Women
Australian Local Government Women’s Association	$50,000	Review of the National Framework for Women in local Government
Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses	$50,000	In Our Own Right – The Video
Australian Women in IT and Science Entity	$50,000	AWISE National Leadership Workshop: Six Tasks for Passionate Leaders
Netball Australia	$50,000	Women’s Participation in Sport – A Study of Netball
UNIFEM	$22,000	Powerful Women Photographic Exhibition

The organisations offered capacity building funding were:

Organisation	Amount	Project
Professional Women’s Network	$25,000	Women’s Mentoring Database
Sisters Inside	$25,000	Australian Women in Prison Network
Girls’ Brigade	$18,572	Girls’ Brigade National Conference
National Council of Women of Australia	$25,000	NCWA Advisor Training Project

Thank you to all organisations who have taken interest in this grant round.

It is anticipated that the next grant round under the Programme will be in the first half of the 2006-07 financial year.