Deadline: 6-Feb-25
The Annual Activity grants provide funding for eligible recurring or ongoing activities offered by non-profit organizations.
Objectives
- The City of Regina uses an outcomes-based approach to funding. All applications are evaluated based on their alignment and support of the City’s funding objectives.
- Social Development Stream Objectives
- Advance Reconciliation, Anti-Racism and Support to Equity-Deserving Communities
- Directly address the Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action or the Calls for Justice for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people (MMIWG2S)
- Address racism and discrimination
- Provide safe(r), more accessible and inclusive spaces and services for equity-deserving groups, such as First Nations, Métis, Inuit, 2SLGBTQIAP+ people, ethnocultural minorities, newcomers, people with disabilities/disabled people, older adults, and youth.
- Improve Food Security and Sustainability
- Increase access to diverse, healthy, and culturally appropriate food
- Strengthen food systems
- Promote opportunities towards food sovereignty including urban agriculture
- Increase the Safety of Substance Use and Access to Addictions Support
- Prevent and reduce harms and stigma associated with substance use
- Connect active users and their families to appropriate addiction supports
- Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence
- Establish or improve supports and services for survivors, perpetrators, and their families to facilitate healing
- Emergency response supports for those fleeing situations of domestic violence and intimate partner violence
- Recognize and prevent domestic and intimate partner violence
- Enhance Community Safety
- Focus on upstream prevention and early intervention to reduce risks and improve community wellbeing
- Engage community members and neighbourhoods to respond to incidents and help improve safety
- Advance Reconciliation, Anti-Racism and Support to Equity-Deserving Communities
- Social Development Stream Objectives
Funding Information
- There are two levels of funding available through this grant program:
- Minor Funding: Up to $10,000, for initiatives that are completed within 12 months.
- Major Funding: Over $10,000 and up to $30,000, for initiatives that are completed within 12 months.
- Special exceptions can be made for grants that have a unique nature and demonstrate that it will take longer than 12 months to complete. In some cases, organizations may receive approval to spend their allocated funds over a period of up to 24 months.
Funding Period
- The grant period is May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026, unless approval is given for a project that requires longer than 12 months to complete.
Eligibility Criteria
- For all proposals, either New Initiatives or Annual Activity, organizations must:
- be a registered non-profit community organization that is operating with an active status, and that has been incorporated for at least one year at the time of application submission.
- be based in Saskatchewan or be a provincial organization and deliver services to the residents of Regina;
- demonstrate sound financial management and accountability;
- be responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of those activities for which the funds are intended.
- For Annual Activity proposals, organizations must also:
- have completed at least one year of the proposed programming and consider the activities to be a demonstrable, ongoing element of the organization’s core programming, related to their mandate.
- organizations that host a biennial program/project/initiative/event are eligible to apply for annual activity funding. If approved through adjudication to be funded, the program/project/initiative/event will only receive funding on years’ the initiative is being held in Regina.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are not eligible to apply for City of Regina Minor and Major funding:
- post secondary institutions, universities or private schools;
- municipal service providers such as fire, police and libraries;
- Saskatchewan Health Authority, hospitals, nursing homes;
- charitable foundations;
- organization hosting a conference.
For more information, visit City of Regina.