{"id":8559,"date":"2018-02-21T16:43:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/community-grants-to-boost-social-cohesion-in-dandenong\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T06:49:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:49:43","slug":"community-grants-to-boost-social-cohesion-in-dandenong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/community-grants-to-boost-social-cohesion-in-dandenong\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY GRANTS TO BOOST SOCIAL COHESION IN DANDENONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Andrews Labor Government is investing in grassroots organisations in Dandenong to build a stronger, more cohesive community.<\/p>\n<p>Member for Dandenong, Gabrielle Williams, today announced a $20,000 grant to High Resolves, to run a program of activities with young people to develop local champions of social cohesion and community harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Also successful was Wellsprings for Women, who will receive $19,000 to a run a new \u2018Intercultural Connections Through Art\u2019 program in Dandenong.<\/p>\n<p>These are two of 22 grants being provided by the Labor Government across the state, through the $650,000 Community Harmony Program for 2017\/18.<\/p>\n<p>The grants support community groups to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify and respond to local challenges to social cohesion and community harmony<\/li>\n<li>Increase intercultural and interfaith engagement and understanding<\/li>\n<li>Build shared values and the foundations of common humanity that transcend cultural and religious differences<\/li>\n<li>Support diverse groups, including smaller or newer community groups, to develop relationships with one another and deliver initiatives that promote social cohesion and belonging through genuine partnerships between community organisations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 250 applications were submitted from both new and established community groups across metropolitan and regional Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Consideration of applications included a comprehensive merit assessment, where the Victorian Multicultural Commission played a key role as representatives on an independent panel as well as ratifying assessment outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>For a complete list of successful applicants, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multicultural.vic.gov.au\">www.multicultural.vic.gov.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Andrews Labor Government is investing in grassroots organisations in Dandenong to build a stronger, more cohesive community. Member for Dandenong, Gabrielle Williams, today announced a $20,000 grant to High Resolves, to run a program of activities with young people to develop local champions of social cohesion and community harmony. Also successful was Wellsprings for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9785,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8559\/revisions\/9785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}