Deadline: 7-Jul-23
The Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities is inviting applicants for the Community Development Grants Program.
The Community Development Grants have two funding streams: Program Support and Operational Support. Grants must help organizations develop or sustain sports and recreation programming for kids between the ages of 4-18 in financial need or youth with disabilities between the ages of 4-25.
Programming Support: Grants are awarded to help organizations develop or sustain the delivery of sport or physical activity-based programs.
Operational Support: Grants are awarded to help organizations build their capacity to provide more inclusive, equitable, safe sport participant experiences.
While organizations can apply more than once within the same application intake period, the requests must be clearly justified and not be dependent on funding from another Jumpstart Community Development Grant application. Funding is determined on the quality of each application and overall demand.
Funding Streams
- Programming Support
- Assists organizations with the costs of delivering sport and recreational programming, including but not limited to:
- Program leaders, instructors, and coaches;
- facility rentals;
- Equipment needs;
- Transportation needs.
- Assists organizations with the costs of delivering sport and recreational programming, including but not limited to:
- Operational Support
- Where an organization’s mandate is to provide sport and recreation programming to marginalized children and youth, build capacity to provide more inclusive, equitable, safe sport participant experiences, including but not limited to:
- Build staff and/or volunteer experience/expertise through training and education
- Organization intersectionality approaches to reduce or eliminate systemic barriers to participation (ie, policies, programs, practices, and spaces);
- Costs related to rebuilding or expanding organizational program offerings.
- Where an organization’s mandate is to provide sport and recreation programming to marginalized children and youth, build capacity to provide more inclusive, equitable, safe sport participant experiences, including but not limited to:
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organizations
- To be eligible for a Community Development Grant, applicants must be qualified data (as defined by the Canada Revenue Agency).
- Eligibility for Operational Support
- Your organization should focus on engaging participants aged 4-18 from families in financial need, or 4-25 years of age for programs primarily serving children and youth with disabilities.
- Eligibility for Programming Support
- To be considered for program funding, applications must:
- Focus on engaging participants aged 4-18 from families in financial need, or 4-25 years of age for programs primarily serving children and youth with disabilities; and
- Consist of at least 5 sessions and 5 hours.
- To be considered for program funding, applications must:
Requirements
- Training
- At Jumpstart, the safety and well-being of the communities they support is extremely important to them. A requirement of being a recipient of Jumpstart funding is that all sport leaders (employees and/or volunteers) involved in the direct delivery of the program successfully complete four Respect in Sport Training Modules prior to the program start date. These modules are:
- Respect in Sport Youth Activity Leader
- Keeping Girls in Sports
- Supporting Positive Behaviors
- Welcoming All Abilities.
- At Jumpstart, the safety and well-being of the communities they support is extremely important to them. A requirement of being a recipient of Jumpstart funding is that all sport leaders (employees and/or volunteers) involved in the direct delivery of the program successfully complete four Respect in Sport Training Modules prior to the program start date. These modules are:
For more information, visit Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities .