Funding Opportunities eNewsletter
August 4, 2022
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Funding Opportunities Update
for Not-for-Profits and the Charitable Sector
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The Funding Opportunities Update is created by the Region of Durham, Social Services Department.
We know that strong, well-funded not-for-profit and charitable sectors can better meet the needs of Durham’s diverse communities. We are committed to sharing information about grants and funding opportunities with our community partners.
Please share this newsletter with your own networks and contacts.
Visit our Funding Resources page for funding opportunities that open between Updates and for links to resources that may help in the application process.
Important Tip! Register your organization online at the Transfer Payment Ontario website. This site provides information about available grants, how to apply for grants and how to check the status of your application.
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Granting Opportunities by Deadline |
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TD Ready Challenge
Application Deadline: August 11, 2022
Each year, the TD Ready Challenge invites eligible organizations to submit applications that offer solutions for a problem statement that is connected to one of the four drivers of change of the TD Ready Commitment: Financial Security, Vibrant Planet, Connected Communities and Better Health. The 2022 TD Ready Challenge is focused on supporting solutions designed to help people and communities who may be disproportionately affected by climate change, to prepare for, adapt to and help mitigate the potential impacts of climate change and/or to work towards a transition to a low-carbon economy.
Problem Statement
The 2022 TD Ready Challenge is focused on supporting solutions designed to help people and communities who may be disproportionately affected by climate change, to prepare for, adapt to and help mitigate the potential impacts of climate change and/or to work towards a transition to a low-carbon economy.
The 2022 Challenge - How can organizations address the Problem Statement?
The 2022 TD Ready Challenge seeks to provide financial support to organizations that have designed innovative, scalable and/or replicable solutions focused on addressing the 2022 Problem Statement. Such solutions could be focused on, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:
- Providing support to address specific needs of those communities and/or people who will most likely be disproportionately impacted by climate change (e.g. physical and/or mental health support programs, programs that support flood prone communities) to mitigate the effects of climate change.
- Providing support to communities and/or workers affected by closures of carbon intensive industries or sectors, or are seeking to transition to the low-carbon economy (e.g. training and upskilling people from disproportionately impacted communities for low-carbon industries).
- Supporting the development of cleantech entrepreneurs, businesses and companies that are focused on the development of low-carbon power generation and/or efficient energy solutions.
- Innovation in sustainable land use to help support the decarbonization of working landscapes.
- Large scale green infrastructure solutions that are focused on improvements such as :
- decreasing the effect of urban heat islands, such as removal of pavement and replacement with alternative ground cover.
- improving existing infrastructure's ability to capture stormwater flow and reduce flash floods.
The Grants
For 2022, there are a maximum of ten (10) grants available under the TD Ready Challenge for Canada and the US together. Eligible Canadian-based organizations are able to apply for CDN$1 million and eligible US-based organizations are able to apply for USD$1 million.
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Ontario Trillium Foundation: Youth Opportunities Fund
Expressions of Interest Deadline: August 24, 2022
Application Deadline: October 25, 2022
YOF provides grants and capacity-building to grassroots groups and collaboratives to improve the wellbeing of youth and families with a focus on Indigenous and Black communities.
- Expression of Interest Deadline for all funding streams: August 24, 2022
- Grant Application Deadline - October 25, 2022
Funding Streams:
Youth Innovations Test Grant: Youth Innovations Test grants support youth-led grassroots groups and youth-adult partnerships to research important issues, explore different approaches, and test new ideas.
Youth Innovations Scale Grant: Youth Innovations Scale grants support youth-led and youth-adult partnerships to expand their reach or enhance their impact on young people.
Family Innovations Test Grant: Family Innovations Test grants support parent-, guardian- or caregiver-led grassroots groups to research important issues, explore different approaches, or test new ideas.
Family Innovations Scale Grant: Family Innovations Scale grants support parent-, guardian- or caregiver-led grassroots groups to expand their reach and enhance their impact on parents, guardians and caregivers of proven community projects.
System Innovations Grant: In this stream we support collaboratives that are strengthening the quality and responsiveness of systems, so they work better for youth facing systemic barriers.
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Government of Ontario: Ontario Grant to Support Anti-Hate Security Measures for Faith-Based and Cultural Organizations
Application Deadline: August 31, 2022
The Ontario Grant to Support Anti-Hate Security Measures for Faith-Based and Cultural Organizations will provide funds to faith-based and cultural organizations to increase safety and security measures.
Applicants must be a registered charity or a not-for-profit corporation that owns, leases or rents an indoor facility in Ontario that is used for regular gatherings of religious, spiritual or cultural significance. Organizations are required to attest that they will use the entirety of the grant on one or more of the eligible expenses to protect their communities and facilities against hate incidents.
The Ontario Grant to Support Anti-Hate Security Measures for Faith-Based and Cultural Organizations is a discretionary and non-entitlement program. As such, there is no guarantee that the applicant will be approved for funding even if an applicant has submitted a complete application and met all program criteria.
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Canada Post Awards for Indigenous Students
Application Deadline: August 31, 2022
Canada Post gives $2,000 grants to Indigenous Peoples who have renewed their educational learning. You’re eligible to apply if you:
- Are a Canadian and a member of a First Nation, Métis or Inuit community
- Have been out of school for 1 year or more and are returning
- Have already returned to school and completed 1 full year of studies
- Have never received this award in the past (you can apply as many times as you want, but you can only receive the award once)
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Trillium Mutual Insurance Company: ROOTS Community Fund
Application Deadline: August 31, 2022
At Trillium Mutual we are proud of our strong legacy of community support over many years. We are committed to the sustainability of rural Ontario and we realize we have an opportunity to support programs that will foster the success of this responsibility. Trillium ROOTS Community Fund focus areas include:
Agriculture: Agriculture applications must benefit sustainability and development of the agriculture industry in Ontario
Mental Wellness: Mental Wellness is single-time projects/programs that do not receive government funding
Healthcare: Healthcare applications must be capital in nature
Emergency Response: Applications must be capital in nature
Environmental/Sustainability: Applications must be capital in nature
Requests for funding are reviewed quarterly. We appreciate as much lead time as possible. The greater the advance notice we are given, the better decisions we can make regarding your application.
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Government of Canada: Canadian Heritage: Museums Assistance Program - Digital Access to Heritage
Application Deadline: September 1, 2022 for projects taking place between September 1, 2022 and March 31, 2024
The Digital Access to Heritage component of the Museums Assistance Program (MAP) provides funding to heritage organizations to digitize collections, develop digital content and build their capacity in these areas.
Eligible projects
The following are eligible for funding from the Component:
- Projects to build capacity to support digitization of and digital access to heritage collections, including the development of a digitization strategy and training.
- Projects to digitize collections, which must be guided by a digitization strategy and must include making the majority of digitized heritage collections accessible to the general public, through various means such as a websites, social media posts, virtual exhibitions, interactive media and collection portals.**
- Projects to develop digital content, based on digitized heritage collections, which is delivered online and/or in person and published using a variety of digital programs, platforms and channels.
- Projects to share best practices, develop and deliver training, resources and services, which must involve more than one organization and/or be developed by one organization to benefit multiple organizations.
All products being presented to the public must be developed in both official languages.
** In addition, you are highly encouraged to upload your digital assets to the Canadian Information Heritage Network (CHIN) Artefacts Canada, a national inventory of museum collections, which provides access to several million records and images from Canadian museums.
All projects must be completed by March 31, 2024.
The following are examples of eligible projects under the Digital Access to Heritage component:
- developing and/or providing professional development activities, tools and strategies for organizations and staff to strengthen their knowledge, skills and practices with respect to digitization of collections, digital content creation and digital engagement
- outsourcing digitization to a third-party, purchasing or rental of specialized equipment or software to digitize materials and create digital content, which must be guided by a digitization strategy and must include making the majority of digitized artefacts accessible to the general public
- developing products such as interactive media, collection portals, apps, games, immersive environments, and other digitally enabled experiences.
- sharing of best practices, for example, the creation of professional development activities and/or tools to assist museum workers and to strengthen their knowledge, skills and practices with respect to digitization of collections, digital content creation and digital engagement.
- developing virtual exhibitions and content related to heritage collections.
- developing virtual exhibitions and content related to contemporary art, which must be retrospective or present an historical perspective.
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Government of Ontario: Ontario Agri-Careers Support Initiative
Application Deadline: September 8, 2022.
This initiative will support innovative pilot projects that are tailor-made to address specific needs of employees at a community-based level so food processing businesses can attract and retain workers. It is aimed at growing the labour market for food processing businesses by either enticing people to become employed by food processors or remain employed by food processors.
Eligible applicants are Ontario-based food processors that have 50 or more employees at the time of application. Food processors include operational businesses that are manufacturers and currently directly involved in the Transformation of agricultural commodities, foods, beverages or agri-based bio-products in Ontario.
The maximum cost-share funding assistance available through the Initiative is:
- up to 70 per cent of total eligible project costs to a maximum of $80,000 for Applicants that only have one business associated with the application, or
- up to 70 per cent of total eligible project costs to a maximum of $200,000 for Applicants that have more than one business associated with the application.
Eligible Activities
- Piloting innovative solutions to help address the ongoing staffing shortages within the sector.
- Encouraging solutions to address community-level challenges that impact recruitment and retention of workers in the sector, in areas such as:
o Local transportation
o Childcare
o Language proficiency
o Identification of on-site employee amenities
o Human resources policies or programs
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Government of Canada: Canadian Heritage - Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage - Local Festivals
Application Deadline: October 15, 2022.
The Local Festivals component provides funding to local groups for recurring festivals that present the work of local artists, artisans or heritage performers. This includes the celebration of LGBTQ2+ communities and Indigenous cultural celebrations. Successful applicants may receive up to 100 per cent of eligible expenses up to a maximum of $200,000 for festivals that:
- present the work of local artists, artisans, or heritage performers;
- actively involve members of the local community; and
- are intended for and accessible to the general public.
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Government of Canada: Development of Official Language Communities Program - Community Life Component - Cooperation with the Community Sector
Programing Funding Deadline: October 15, 2022.
Project Funding Deadline: December 6, 2022
The Community Life component enables the federal government to work with partners to offer official-language minority communities (English-speaking communities in Quebec and the Francophone communities residing outside Quebec) access to services in their own language, as well as the infrastructure necessary to ensure their growth and development.
The objectives of the Community Life component include the following:
- to foster the implementation of activities and projects or programming that ensure the long-term development of official-language minority communities in key sectors;
- to help expand and diversify the range of partners working together towards the development of official-language minority communities;
- to help make official-language minority communities more inclusive;
- to help provincial and territorial governments and their creations foster the growth of official-language minority communities by providing them with, in accordance with the development priorities identified by the communities, services in English in Quebec and in French outside Quebec, as well as the necessary infrastructure to provide these services.
The expected results of the Community life component include the following:
- Offer of activities and services designed for official-language minority communities by community organizations;
- Offer of activities and services designed to strengthen and ensure visibility of official-language minority communities’ action in the areas of arts, culture and heritage;
- Offer of minority-language services by provincial and territorial governments, in areas other than education.
Objectives and expected results for the Cooperation with the Community Sector sub-component
The purpose of the Cooperation with the Community Sector sub-component is to support engagement by community organizations and strengthen their ability to act in order to obtain measurable gains in terms of community vitality, as well as to encourage innovation and excellence.
The expected results of the Cooperation with the Community Sector sub-component include the following:
- Offer of activities and services designed for official-language minority communities by community organizations.
Who can apply
Eligible organizations must represent the interests of official-language minority communities. Their missions, mandates or the majority of their activities must support the development and enhancement of official-language minority communities nationally, provincially, regionally or locally. These organizations include:
- a Canadian non-profit organization, duly registered;
- an association, institution; or a Canadian foundation; or
- a Canadian for-profit organization (solely for non-profit activities).
The following are not eligible: individuals; government organizations; universities, schools, school boards; and foreign institutions and organizations.
Eligible projects and programming
Project funding is available for one-time activities that do not require ongoing funding. Priority is given to projects that address current issues, are innovative and help develop areas that are unique or unexplored.
Program funding is available to carry out ongoing activities supporting community development and can cover organizations' operating costs. Priority is given to programming activities that have a lasting effect and strengthen relations between community stakeholders.
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City of Pickering: Community Grants
Application Deadline: October 28, 2022.
Each year the City of Pickering accepts grant applications from local non-profit community organizations for activities, programs or initiatives that serve the residents of Pickering or provide an economic benefit to the City, or that create a positive image of the City.
For new applicants, the maximum grant amount that an eligible organization can receive is $3,000.
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Business Advisory Centre Durham: Starter Company Plus
Application Deadline: Next cohort begins in Fall 2022. Apply now to be added to the wait list
Starter Company Plus Program is for existing business owners operating between 1 to 3 years (market ready/ready to sell), to expand (hiring employees, contractors or getting a location) or buying a business in Durham Region.
The Program provides:
- The program has 3 mandatory training days over 2 weeks (9:00am – 3:00pm) covering Business Concept, Organization, Operations and Customer Relations
- The chance to receive up to $5,000 in seed funding to kick off a new business or expand your current business
- The experience of running a successful business that may help you obtain more traditional financing such as a bank loan if you so require in the future
This program is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade.
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Ontario Trillium Foundation: Resilient Communities Fund
Coming Soon: Application portal will open early November
Application Deadline: December 7, 2022
COVID-19 continues to have a significant impact on the non-profit sector and its ability to build resiliency, and support and serve communities across Ontario. The non-profit sector faces many challenges, including the need to adapt program and service delivery, generate revenue, meet changing community needs and address health and safety requirements.
COVID-19 recovery support is essential for non-profit organizations, Indigenous communities, and Municipalities to deal with ongoing needs for both them and their communities.
What is the Resilient Communities Fund?
This fund supports the recovery efforts of organizations impacted by COVID-19 and helps them respond with immediate, medium, and longer-term recovery projects.
Applicants can apply for a minimum of $10,000, and up to $200,000, with a maximum of $100,000 per year.
The next application deadline is December 7, 2022, at 5 PM ET.
Organizations are eligible to receive 1 Resilient Communities Fund grant from either of the following deadlines: April 6, 2022 (closed) or December 7, 2022. Applicants that have received a Resilient Communities Fund grant from prior years are eligible to apply again.
Resilient Communities Fund grants support projects that help rebuild an organization’s capacity, enhance their resiliency, and meet the changing needs of their communities. Projects should be focused on:
- developing new approaches;
- starting new activities;
- adjusting strategies, or
- planning for future challenges
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Government of Ontario: Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund (OCAF)
Application Deadline: Ongoing - Organizations must start the application process approximately eight months prior to an event.
OCAF has three specific aims:
- to increase cultural tourism by providing investments to assist Ontario cultural organizations to promote, market and present one-off or first-time events, or a significant expansion of existing activity, which are designed to attract new tourists and visitors to cultural events;
- increase the earned revenue capacity of the applicant organization; and
- support events that foster economic growth and contribute to job creation.
OCAF has a two-stage application process which ensures that organizations do not dedicate significant time, effort and resources to an ineligible project. Please refer to “Important Dates” for a current list of stage 2 application deadlines.
- First time applicants, and those requiring further information or assistance with the application, should contact OCAF staff prior to submitting a Stage 1 application.
- Organizations must start the application process approximately eight months prior to an event.
- OCAF has a two-stage application process which ensures that organizations do not dedicate significant time, effort and resources to an ineligible project.
- Stage 2 applications should be assessed by the OCAF Board approximately six months prior to an event.
- We are open to relaxing these timelines in light of the challenges presented by the Covid-19 health crisis.
- Please contact Thomas Vaughan at tvaughan@ocaf.ca to discuss the eligibility of your event.
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Town of Whitby - Mayor's Community Development Fund
Application Deadline: Ongoing
The Mayor's Community Development Fund (MCDF) is a community development fund offered by the Town of Whitby to support local community groups, events, and initiatives that will benefit the community, including applications for COVID-19 support. The MCDF offers funding to local initiatives in our community through lead grants up to $25,000 and community grants up to $5,000.
The funding is raised through two events, The Mayor's Gala and the Mayor's Golf Tournament. Up to 50% of the proceeds raised by the Mayor's Golf Tournament and Mayor's Fundraiser will be awarded to a lead cause or charity. The balance will be awarded in smaller community grants.
If you apply, you can also request one of the following silent auction item packages:
- Whitby/Brooklin Retailer Gift Basket ($150 value)
- Whitby Recreation Gift Certificate ($250 value)
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Funding Portals and Lists |
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Canada Council for the Arts
All program area grants are accessible through their portal and registration must be complete at least 30 days before you wish to apply.
Canada Council grants are now organized into six programs:
1. Explore and Create;
2. Engage and Sustain;
3. Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples
4. Supporting Artistic Practice;
5. Arts Across Canada;
6. Arts Abroad.
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Government of Canada: Culture, History and Sport Funding
The Government of Canada offers a wide array of granting opportunities around culture, history and sport. See an alphabetical listing of grants available here.
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Government of Canada: Employment and Social Development Canada
See a list of funding programs for jobs, training and social development projects.
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Government of Canada: Public Health Agency of Canada
Grant and Contribution Funding Opportunities for programs under the Public Health Agency of Canada. See an alphabetical listing of grants available here.
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Innovation Canada
Innovation Canada offers an online search tool that allows companies to search for relevant funding.
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Invest Durham
Find links to business loans and financing.
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Ontario Arts Council
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) provides grants to Ontario-based individual artists and arts professionals, ad hoc groups/collectives and organizations. Grants support a range of arts activities and disciplines.
The OAC offers two types of grant programs:
Project grants – one-time grants for specific projects, available to individual artists, ad hoc groups/collectives and organizations
Operating grants – ongoing support for Ontario-based, not-for-profit arts organizations and for-profit book and magazine publishers
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Parks and Recreation Ontario
A list of various funding opportunities, both governmental and non-governmental
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The Funding Portal
The Funding Portal is a subscription-based national bilingual e-commerce platform and gateway to improve access to government funding. The Portal aggregates thousands of sources of funding within a searchable database.
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Find free webinars and other resources through the following sites:
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