Deadline: 7-Mar-22
The City of Calgary has announced the applications for the Capacity-Building and Emerging Issues Fund to strengthen the capacity of the non-profit sector, organizations, and/or programs to effectively address the needs of Calgarians experiencing vulnerabilities.
Objectives
- Emerging social issues
- Funds are available to support initiatives to address an emerging social issue or trend.
- Initiatives should be led by members of the community that are directly involved in or impacted by, a particular issue.
- Organizational effectiveness
- Funds are available to support an organization in increasing its effectiveness to support Calgarians experiencing vulnerabilities.
Funding Information
- Emerging social issues: Grant amount: $15,000 to $50,000 for each project.
- Organizational effectiveness: Grant amount: $10,000 to $30,000 for each project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Emerging social issues
- Organizational eligibility
- All non-profit social service organizations (including community-based organizations) registered under the Societies Act or the Companies Act in Alberta, or the Federal Not-for-profit Corporations Act, and operating within Calgary’s city limits;
- Organizations must have a track record of serving the community most impacted by the emerging social issue.
- Initiative eligibility
- One-time initiatives that address systems gaps or sector trends that may be impacting Calgarians experiencing vulnerabilities;
- Initiatives that work with an impacted population to develop new strategies to address an emerging social issue affecting Calgarians experiencing vulnerabilities.
- Organizational eligibility
- Organizational effectiveness
- Organizational eligibility
- Community-based organizations that are registered under the Societies Act or the Companies Act in Alberta, or the Federal Not-for-profit Corporations Act, and operating within Calgary’s city limits.
- Organizations that are currently supported through the following funding programs administered by The City of Calgary:
- Family & Community Support Services;
- Crime Prevention Investment Plan;
- Calgary’s Mental Health and Addiction Investment Framework;
- Community Safety Investment Framework
- Initiative eligibility
- One-time initiatives that strengthen organizational effectiveness and/or enhance program design to meet the needs of Calgarians experiencing vulnerabilities.
- Organizational eligibility
Outcomes
- Emerging social issues
- New innovative strategies developed to address emerging social issues;
- Individuals of a community are brought together to identify needs and solutions;
- Innovative community-based initiatives are designed, developed, and implemented;
- New partnerships among two or more non-profit organizations are established and sustainable;
- A coordinated response to emerging social issues or trends;
- Service gaps and strategies to address them are identified.
- Organizational effectiveness
- New strategies that enable an organization to prioritize, innovate, and respond to internal or external changes;
- Redistribution or reallocation of organizational resources to better respond to emerging issues;
- Increased ability to implement new organizational or programmatic functions.
Note
- This year community-based organizations will be encouraged, and supported, to submit proposals within either funding stream, to implement initiatives that will lead to positive change for the Calgarians they serve. Community-based organizations are those that are:
- A registered non-profit organization;
- Led by members of the community they serve, and;
- Have an annual operating budget of less than $250,000 a year, or
- Have four or less fulltime-equivalent (FTE) staff positions.
For more information, visit https://www.calgary.ca/csps/cns/neighbourhood-services/call-for-funding-proposals.html