Almost 80 Aboriginal community organisations across New South Wales are set to share more than $15 million to support Closing the Gap initiatives.

The Community and Place Grants grants are part of the NSW government's investment of more than $221 million over four years to 2027 under the Closing the Gap Implementation Plan.

Grant recipients include the Bega Local Aboriginal Land Council which delivers Koori Youth on the Move, a program of tailored workshops to equip Aboriginal young people with driving skills.

Bega Local Aboriginal Land Council CEO, Leanne Atkinson, said the grant will provide practical support for the organisation's Aboriginal youth driver training program.

"The funding will enable us to employ a coordinator and to buy a car to provide the driving hours needed to meet the required 120 hours," Ms Atkinson told National Indigenous Times.

"It will also allow us to get a four wheel drive to teach off road driving and will fund basic car maintenance workshops to help people to stay on the road.

"Without this funding, it would not be possible for the Land Council to be able to cover the cost of a vehicle or a project coordinator."

Ms Atkinson said many young Aboriginal people in the Bega community do not have access to supports needed to gain their license, meaning they miss out on employment and training opportunities where travel is a requirement to participate.

"Even in situations where families do have a car, it may need to be used for work and other commitments and it may be an older vehicle which is not ideal for a young driver to learn in," Ms Atkinson said.

"The financial barriers that many families face mean that formal driving lessons are not accessible, or they find fuel costs so high that they can't afford to use their vehicle for anything other than essential travel.

"This project is a direct response to this issue, and the aim is to get as many young people on the road as we can."

Successful grant recipients were selected for their ability to deliver real benefits against the Closing the Gap socio-economic targets.

Deniliquin's Yarkuwa Indigenous Knowledge Centre Aboriginal Corporation (YIKCAC) also received support through the grants scheme, with funding provided to upgrade current infrastructure to provide additional community engagement spaces.

YIKCAC chairperson, Jeanette Crew OAM told National Indigenous Times improved infrastructure at Yarkuwa will provide a place for the organisation's community-based board and community to meet, a multimedia space for workshops, exhibitions and celebrations and a designated youth space for homework and mentoring activities.

"The additional spaces will be targeted to catering to community and governance needs, where a community and staff meeting space will provide for workshops, small or large group sessions as well as connecting spaces to multifunctional use," Ms Crew said.

"The upgrade and expansion will provide needed space for young people to be supported in training or schooling activities, access computers and digital platforms to learn online or face to face, within a culturally safe supported space."

Ms Crew said YIKCAC provides a crucial support for both Indigenous youth and the broader Aboriginal community in Deniliquin "by providing a culturally safe place for First Nations people, specifically young people to transition to work, learn and be supported to find their pathway to sustained employment opportunities".

"The space will also be set up to allow independent access to support community members undertaking online studies build their engagements with language arts and culture staff," she said.

Other initiatives successful in receiving grant support include a program to redirect young offenders from the justice system into a pathway of cultural training and mentoring in Malabugilmah (near Grafton), and a new art gallery, workshop, and retail space at Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance in Coffs Harbour to support more than 120 Aboriginal artists and cultural practitioners.

A training program in Aboriginal traditional ecological knowledge and cultural burning that gives graduates opportunities to work as rangers on Gandangara Country in south-west Sydney and the development of a nursery near Dubbo connecting Aboriginal people to culture by teaching skills in seed collection, plant propagation, plant use and language has also received support.

In total, the grant program sees $15,520,282.39 was awarded across 77 Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and/or Unincorporated Groups.

New South Wales Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty, David Harris said Aboriginal communities do best to close the gap when it is Aboriginal people shaping and driving outcomes, alongside government.

"There are so many wonderful Aboriginal-led programs that work every day to make real, lasting positive impacts to the lives of people in their communities," Mr Harris said.

"The NSW government's $15 million Community and Place Grants investment is a highly targeted way to partner with these organisations to maximise outcomes."