Deadline: 10-Aug-22
The City of Edmonton is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Anti-racism Grants Program to catalyze action on racism and anti-racism in Edmonton.
This will be accomplished through investing in efforts that address racially motivated hate, build community capacity and cultural understanding, promote awareness, training and education or involve research, monitoring and evaluation of diversity, anti-racism and/or discrimination in Edmonton.
The program builds upon Edmonton City Council’s 50-year Strategic Plan and the goal of building a Healthy City where community and personal wellness embody and promote equity for all Edmontonians.
Funding Streams
The Anti-racism Grants Program has four funding streams:
- Youth Activation Grant (Grant amount: Up to $1000 each | $25,000 of total funds available): To be used by youth (13-24 years of age) to activate & animate anti-racism initiatives, grassroots organizing & community action.
- Project Ready Matching Grant (Grant Amount: Up to $25,000 each | $75,000 of total funds available): To be used by community non-profit and local grassroots organizations for anti-racism initiatives that have received approved funding and require some matching contribution.
- Local Anti-racism Capacity Building/Innovation Grant (Grant Amount: Up to $15,000/each | $150,000 of total funds available): Focused on local grassroots organizations working on anti-racism activities and actions that address barriers to participation, promote healing and/or reconciliation, illuminate and combat systemic and structural racism, and support sustaining developmental change.
- Local Community Participatory Action Research Grant (Grant Amount: up to $25,000/each | $50,000 of total funds available): To be used by communities impacted by racism to support community-led research activities that address local issues and concerns specific to them.
Outcomes
The grant program has three outcomes:
- Edmontonians are more aware of racism and its impact and have a greater understanding of how to take action to address it.
- Edmontonians will be knowledgeable of the community organizations that are working to dismantle individual, systemic and structural racism.
- Edmontonians will work together to build a diverse, inclusive and equitable city guided by anti-racism.
Eligible Projects
- The program provides funding assistance to support anti-racism projects (new initiatives, events or expansions or new phases of an existing program) within Edmonton.
- Organizations must clearly demonstrate how their project meets at least one of the program outcomes and is a community-based anti-racism initiative that:
- addresses racially motivated hate;
- builds community capacity and cultural understanding;
- promotes awareness, training, and education; or
- involves research, monitoring and evaluation on diversity, anti-racism, and/or discrimination.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization must be a registered not-for-profit in good standing with the Province of Alberta or the federal government of Canada.
- Organizations who are registered (and in good standing) under one of the following acts:
- Provincial Legislation (Alberta)
- Agricultural Societies Act
- Education Act
- Part 21 of the Business Corporations Act – Extra-Provincial Corporations- Must have an Alberta-based address which must be regularly monitored by an active member of the organization.
- Companies Act, Part 9 (Nonprofit Companies)
- Libraries Act
- Societies Act of Alberta
- Special Act of the Alberta Legislature
- Organizations who are registered (and in good standing) under one of the following federal acts:
- Act of the Parliament of Canada
- Income Tax Act of Canada and operating in the Province of Alberta as a Charity
- A group that is operating in the Edmonton municipality formally connected through a First Nation or Metis Settlement in Alberta
- A university, college or institute as defined under Alberta’s Post-Secondary Learning Act
For more information, visit https://www.edmonton.ca/programs_services/funding_grants/anti-racism-grants-program
