GLOBE Victoria has a long and proud history of providing financial support to Victorian LGBTIQA+ communities with the GLOBE Victoria Community Grants and more recently the GLOBE Victoria Scholarships and GLOBE Victoria Small Business Grants. Over the last 33 years, GLOBE Victoria has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to deserving individuals, groups and organisations.
2024
2024 GLOBE Victoria Community Grants
GLOBE Victoria is pleased to announce the following recipients of the 2024 GLOBE Victoria
Community Grants each to the value of $2000
- Bendigo Pride Festival: They are hosting an all-ages live music event called Pride in the Park, which
creates a safe space for LGBTIQA+ and gender diverse youth from the greater Bendigo area and
regional Victoria. They will be using the grant money to make the event more accessible and safe for
LGBTIQA+ youth. They will also create a neurodiverse-friendly sensory dome for the event. - Goulburn Valley Pride: This grant will allow them to provide queer community members guided
opportunities to connect with nature and mindfulness through a series of workshops. As well as
benefitting the mental health and wellbeing of the LGBTIQA+ community they will also be
supporting local queer businesses in the process.
2024 GLOBE Victoria Small Business Grants
The GLOBE Victoria Small Business Grants are specifically open to GLOBE small business members
and are each to the value of $3000. This year the 2 recipients are:
- The Equality Network: In 2017 The Equality Network was established to increase the queer literacy
of (1) people who wanted to become better LGBTIQA+ allies and (2) organisations that wanted to
become more LGBTIQA+ inclusive. The GLOBE Victoria Small Business Grant will help transition 7
LGBTIQA+ inclusion courses to an online format which is part of a comprehensive ten year strategic
plan for the business - Going: Your Way: Iain McKinnon is an end-of-life coach whose role is to accompany his clients and
those that matter to them on their end-of-life journey and to enable them to be fully informed,
emotionally supported and always listened to. He also assists people to develop robust Advance
Care Directives and other end-of-life planning documents. He will use the funds from the GLOBE
Victoria Small Business Grant to implement a targeted marketing strategy for his business in 2025.
2024 GLOBE Victoria Scholarship
GLOBE is very pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2024 GLOBE Victoria Scholarship to the
value of $1000 is:
- Xin Hu: Xin is an early stage social work researcher who is undertaking a PhD study with Monash
University regarding suicide prevention for queer international students, which is anticipated to
commence in 2025. The GLOBE Victoria Scholarship will help support their registration and
participation in an upcoming international conference as well as Xin’s ongoing research.
GLOBE would like to thank all the applicants for this year’s Grants and Scholarship and wish them all
the very best in their future endeavours.
2024 Grants
2023
2023 GLOBE Victoria Community Grants
GLOBE Victoria is pleased to announce the following recipients of the 2023 GLOBE Victoria Community Grants.
- Australian Queer Archives : They will receive a grant to help digitise their unique holdings of historic LGBTIQA+ audio-visual material dating back to the 1970’s at risk of being lost through deterioration caused by old age
- Silver Rainbow Advocacy Group: This is a volunteer group that advocates to improve the experience of ageing for older LGBTIQA+ people in the Mount Alexander Shire in central Victoria. They will receive funds to assist in running workshops for older LGBTIQA+ people that will be guided conversations about future legal planning for (1) everyday life (2) finances and (3) end-of-life healthcare.
- Geelong Pride Film Festival: They will receive a grant to stage a special networking and screening event plus Q&A within the 2024 Geelong Pride Film Festival. This will be a centrepiece event of the festival with special guests participating in a facilitated Q&A session after a networking event and highlight film.
- Archer Magazine: This is a multi-award winning print and digital publication about sexuality and gender, platforming essays and artwork from some of Australia’s most marginalised identities at the intersections of LGBTIQA+ communities. Twice a year Archer Magazine provides a space for insight and expression on topics that are important to LGBTIQA+ people. GLOBE Victoria will provide funds to support venue hire, accessibility and artist wages for one of these community events.
2023 GLOBE Victoria Small Business Grants
The GLOBE Victoria Small Business Grants are specifically open to GLOBE Victoria small business members , this year the 2 recipients are:
- Let’s Talk About X: This is a certified social enterprise founded with the aim of reducing the high prevalence of sexual harm and discrimination suffered by LGBTIQA+ young people. They have set out to provide training that helps schools, parents and workplaces better understand consent and become more inclusive of LGBTIQA+ communities. They will use the GLOBE Victoria Small Business Grant to promote their services to a broader audience.
- Influence Global: This s a collaborative social purpose consultancy that works with boards and senior executive teams to create organisational and systemic change that will have a positive impact on people and the planet. The GLOBE Victoria Small Business Grant will be used to develop and implement an online business marketing plan to enable expansion of the business and the employment of an additional team member.
2023 GLOBE Victoria Scholarship
Finally, GLOBE Victoria is very pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2023 GLOBE Victoria Scholarship is:
- Meta Cohen: Meta is an emerging queer composer, sound designer and dramaturg currently completing a PhD in Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts. Meta’s music has been commissioned by ensembles such as the Consort of Melbourne and the Sydney Children’s Choir. Part of the GLOBE Victoria Scholarship will be used to fund a trip to London where they will give public presentations about their research on queer performance. The rest of the Scholarship will support the development of a new queer theatre performance work called HOMO FOMO.