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REPORTING | Sweat With Pride raised $161,348
Let's break that down:
- 1,745 Sweaty Bettys
- 102 Workplaces & Family/Friend Teams
- 481,408 minutes moved for rainbow communities
You helped fund life-saving support for LGBTQIA+ communities across Australia, including for ACON and Minus18.
We’re proud, grateful and deeply inspired. Thank you for showing up, moving your body, and being part of something powerful. We’ll see you next year!
"Thank you Sweat With Pride for creating a platform to connect and fundraise for our community. the ripple effect in our regional area saw a local gym host a pride themed exercise class, with proceeds donated to Sweat With Pride." - Pip (she/her)
GROWING | Your Impact: EOI Now Open for Grants & GiveOUT Day | expressions close 11.59pm Monday 11 August 2025
One Form, Two Big Opportunities
Rainbow Giving’s Amplify & Ignite Pride Grants & GiveOUT Day 2025 participation.
If you’re an LGBTIQA+ organisation or initiative creating change, this is for you.
- Just one form
- Takes 10 minutes
- Be considered for funding and national exposure
- Got questions or to Submit form
UPDATING | Admin & Programs Role
We’ve been blown away by your response:
- 150 applicants have shared their passion for rainbow communities.
- Interviews are happening over the next week.
- We can’t wait to welcome our newest team member soon.
Other LGBTIQA+ Funding Opportunities
NSW | GOV | Local Sport Grant Program | applications close Monday 18 August 2025
The NSW Office of Sport, through its Local Sport Grant Program, aims to increase regular and on-going participation opportunities in sport in NSW. Up to $20,000
TAS | GOV | Youth Arts | applications close Monday 8 September 2025
Arts Tasmania (ARTA) supports organisations to deliver activities that actively engage young people in Tasmania to develop their creative skills, and enhance their social health and wellbeing. Up to $80,000.
AUST | GILEAD | SUPPORTING | Improving Wellbeing of those living with HIV | Variable funding: rolling applications
Gilead Sciences, through its corporate giving program, supports not-for-profit organisations focused on increasing the overall health and wellness of people living with or at risk of viral hepatitis and HIV nationally.
AUST | ACF | GRANTING | Network Funding | rolling applications
Showcases organisations to Australian Communities Foundation (ACF)’s community of givers nationally to support initiatives aligned with their interests.
AUST | FIA | GRANTING | Scholarships | applications close Sunday 10 August 2025
Supports fundraising professionals to deepen their expertise and expand their impact across the nonprofit sector. Includes 18 scholarships for early-career and experienced fundraisers, with specific opportunities for First Nations and fundraisers from smaller organisations. Open to Fundraising Institute Australia (FIA) members and non-members.
Community News & Events
- SA | ADELAIDE | Feast Festival 2025 | Artist and Event Registrations close 22 July 2025
- AUST | Wear It Purple Day | Friday 29 August 2025
- AUST | MELBOURNE | FDPN Queer Displacement Conference | Wednesday 3-Friday 5 September 2025
- NSW | CHARLESTOWN | Evolve Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub is now open. Run by Lake Macquarie and Newcastle Suicide Prevention Network (LMNSPN)
UPDATING | From some of our grant partners
- NTAHC’s LGBTI Living Well Program raised $1,000+ for community members during Pride Month & they have also recruited a new staff member to support Sistergirls who are experiencing crisis in the Northern Territory.
- InterAction a Powerful New Chapter: Two of Australia’s leading intersex organisations, IHRA and IPSA, have united to form InterAction for Health and Human Rights. With grant support from Rainbow Giving, leaders gathered in Brunswick Heads for a strategic retreat. They explored their mission, vision and structure, building a bold new future for people with innate variations of sex characteristics.
Ways To Support
Be part of a generous cohort of funders working to shift the dial for LGBTQIA+ communities across the country. By backing Rainbow Giving, you’ll help small and grassroots organisations access vital, flexible funding and show that LGBTQIA+ communities are worthy of long-term investment, not just one-off support.
If you or your organisation is keen to help power lasting change, contact Em Scott, CEO.
Rainbow Giving Australia is working toward an empowered, sustainable and united rainbow community
Rainbow Giving Australia acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work. We pay our respects to all Elders past and present. Rainbow Giving Australia is committed to working with First Nations LGBTQIA+ organisations and initiatives to mobilise the resources they need for their important work. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Sovereignty has never been ceded.