The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund make grants across Australia in accordance with our vision to improve peoples’ lives in lasting and positive ways. Grants are made across a number of different areas.
To find out more about individual grants programs, please select one of the areas below:
The Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships provide unrestricted grants to individual artists, arts managers and thought leaders in the humanities. The Fellowships are intended for artists in their early, mid-career – to be eligible, nominees must be in the first seven to 15 years of their creative practice.
Nominations for the 2016 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship program will open in May 2016. Recipients will be announced in December 2016.
The Awards were created to commemorate Sidney Myer’s life and his love for the arts. They intend primarily to enhance the status of performing arts in Australia and recognise outstanding achievements in dance, drama, comedy, music, opera, circus and puppetry.
Nominations for the 2016 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards will open in October 2016 and close in November 2016 (exact dates yet to be confirmed). Recipients will be announced in March 2017.
This program seeks to strengthen and grow the independent arts and cultural sector in Australia by granting money to ensembles/collectives/groups that are highly connected within their sector, and producing excellent work. The program’s geographic focus shifts each year with Victoria and Tasmania (2015) and Queensland and Northern Territory (2016) having already participated in the program. The 2017 focus will be announced late in 2016.
The focus area of the Education Large Grants Program is enhancing teacher quality and effectiveness.
Please note: we do not accept unsolicited applications to the Large Grants Program.
Through its Capacity Building Stream the Education Program seeks to build the capacity of schools to improve the quality of their teaching and the effectiveness of their teachers.
The Education Small Grants Program aims to provide a quick response to community needs, and supports projects that aim to improve educational outcomes for 0-25 year olds.
The focus area for the Poverty & Disadvantage Large Grants Program is young people aged from 12 to 23 years living in or transitioning out of out-of-home care.
Please note: we do not accept unsolicited applications to the Poverty & Disadvantage Large Grants Program.
Through its Capacity Building Stream the Poverty & Disadvantage Program aims to enhance the capacity of organisations working with young people aged from 12 to 23 years living in or transitioning out of out-of-home care.
This Small Grants Program supports strategies to benefit Australian communities.
The generation and preservation of urban landscapes is the current focus area for the Sustainability & Environment Committee.
Please note: we do not accept unsolicited applications to the Large Grants Program.
This stream is currently being developed. Guidelines for this stream will be published in September 2015.
The Myer Innovation Fellowships will support Australia’s brightest, self-directed leaders to forge breakthrough solutions and articulate actionable ideas which compel our community to respond.
From 2013, Dame Merlyn Myer’s four granddaughters will acknowledge her interest in the well-being of women through the Merlyn Myer Fund program.
Please note: we do not accept unsolicited applications to the Merlyn Myer Fund.
