To be considered for funding you must meet these eligibility criteria:
1. You must be a Telstra Group employee
A Telstra Group employee includes any permanent full or part time employee of the company, and Australian wholly owned and controlled subsidiaries of the Telstra Corporation Ltd. on the date the grant application is submitted.
Contractors and casual employees to Telstra are not eligible to apply for a Telstra's Kids Fund grant.
2. The organisation must be not-for-profit
An organisation is not-for-profit when their constituent or governing documents prevent them from distributing profits or assets for the benefit of particular persons, both while they are operating and on winding up. A not-for-profit organisation can still make a profit, however any profits it makes must be used to carry out its purposes and not distributed to owners, members or other private persons.
Organisations do NOT require DGR or TCC endorsement to be eligible.
3. The child must be 18 years of age or under and part of your immediate family
Telstra Group employees can apply for a grant on behalf of a child, 18 years or under, who is part of their immediate family:
• Child
• Sibling
• Step-child
• Adopted-child
• Foster-child
• Niece/nephew
• Grandchild
• Child of a de facto partner
The child must be involved in the organisation, on the date the Telstra's Kids Fund grant application round closes.
4. You must only make a successful application once every three years
A Telstra Group employee may only make a successful application to the Telstra's Kids Fund once every three years as determined from the original grant application closing date. This allows others a chance to get involved.
Telstra Group employees applying for an organisation in a community directly impacted by disaster according to Telstra’s Customer and Community Disaster Relief Policy, from March 2010 until July 2010, are not restricted by this guideline in the granting round open 9 August. These staff can submit an application, regardless if they have applied in the past three years.
Telstra's Kids Fund may fund the same 'local' not-for-profit organisation more than once in a funding round, provided each application is made by a different Telstra Group employee and relates to a separate project or activity.
Telstra’s Kids Fund does not support:
• Individual children
• Projects which are completed prior to the Grants Committee decision
• Promotional activities
• Programs with a religious, political or sectarian purpose
• General operational/administration functions
• Conferences
• Retrospective costs
• Projects outside of Australia
• General fundraising appeals
Telstra's Kids Fund is unable to donate Telstra products and services.