2026–27 Capability Building Grants

This is a preview of the 2026-27 Capability Building Grant form. When you’re ready to apply, click Fill Out Now to begin.

Before you apply

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Capability Building Grants (Not Applicable)

Capability Building Grants help people and organisations develop and use skills, leadership, knowledge and relationships for lasting community benefit and connected, resilient and thriving Tasmanian communities.

Community Skills and Leadership: $5,000–$50,000, up to 12 months. Shared Capability: up to $250,000, up to two years. Amounts exclude GST; no cash contribution is required.

Applications open 30 October 2026 and close 8 February 2027. Applicants will be notified of funding decisions in April 2027. Start only after the funding agreement is signed.

Read the Capability Building Grant Guidelines here before applying. For help, contact (03) 6270 5843 or admin@tascomfund.org. Short answers and dot points are welcome. Word limits are maximums, not targets; we assess your initiative, not your writing style.

Choosing your category (Not Applicable)

Choose Community Skills and Leadership when people or a community organisation will build and use skills, knowledge, confidence or leadership for community benefit. Your own staff, volunteers, board or committee can take part if there is a clear need and material community benefit. Routine responsibilities, normal governance or compliance training and ordinary professional development are not eligible.

Choose Shared Capability when several organisations or communities will develop and use something together that they could not create effectively on their own, such as a shared approach, method, model, resource or support arrangement. Shared attendance at training alone is not enough.

Building and using capability must be the main purpose. A practical community project may fit Community Action; a larger long-term response may fit Major Initiatives. Capability costs for an already funded project cannot be claimed again.

An organisation can lead one application in each CB category and be a partner in others if it can meet its commitments. Initiatives must be separate. Applications are competitive and eligibility does not guarantee funding.

Which Capability Building category are you applying for? *

Response required.

Community Skills and Leadership

Shared Capability

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Community Skills and Leadership duration (Not Applicable)

This section is not applicable because of your response to question: "Which Capability Building category are you applying for?" on page 1

How many months will your initiative run for? *

Must be a number and between 1 and 12. Community Skills and Leadership initiatives can run for up to 12 months.

Shared Capability duration (Not Applicable)

This section is not applicable because of your response to question: "Which Capability Building category are you applying for?" on page 1

How many months will your initiative run for? *

Must be a number and between 1 and 24. Shared Capability initiatives can run for up to 24 months.

Eligibility confirmation (Not Applicable)

Before continuing, please confirm each of the following: *

Response required.Response required.

We have read the Capability Building Grant Guidelines and our organisation or group is eligible to apply, or will apply through an eligible sponsoring organisation.

Our initiative primarily benefits Tasmanian communities and its main purpose is to develop and apply community capability beyond our own routine internal operations.

We have not incurred or committed to any costs that we are seeking TCF funding for, and understand that TCF will not fund costs incurred before a Grant Agreement is signed.