Deadline: 21-Apr-22
The Comox Valley Community Foundation (CVCF) is seeking applications for its Neighbourhood Small Grants Program.
Project Ideas
Projects could be, but are not limited to:
- Sharing the arts
- Example: Neighbourhood musician’s event/jam session in the park; art workshop
- Celebration of Indigenous culture and language
- Example: Indigenous cultural event (e.g. craft night, harvesting traditional food, etc.)
- Sharing of skills and knowledge across generations
- Example: Youth teaching seniors to use iPad/tablets
- Growing and eating local food
- Example: Mushroom growing/harvesting, community garden work bees, composting projects
- Youth-led projects
- Example: Youth journaling project (e.g. interviewing seniors); reading buddy program (youth reading to young children and/or to seniors)
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Example: Host a 2SLGBTQIA+ event (e.g. Pride event); Parking lot BBQ for your townhouse complex with all residents invited; moms and toddlers event
Funding Information
- You can ask for up to $500 for any Neighbourhood Small Grant program.
- You can use the grant to offset any expenses that were needed for the project. This includes products, transportation, or services.
Neighbourhood Small Grants Principles:
- Everyone has gifts
- Anyone can offer their ideas, talents, skills, experiences and contacts to build a strong community.
- Small is powerful
- Small amounts of money have a potential to bring powerful changes in community in forms of new relationships, increased self-confidence, leadership development, stronger sense of place and creation of local traditions.
- Local decisions are best
- Community members from diverse backgrounds and experiences get an opportunity to make decisions on who should get the grants in their community.
- Where they live matters
- The grants enable anyone to team up with their neighbour and come up with a project that they can carry out within an area of where they live and based on what they think works best in their community.
- They learn together
- There is no single right way to build community so anyone involved in the program will have many opportunities to learn, share, reflect, exchange and capture knowledge, skills and information that they can use within and beyond the program.
- Everyone is invited
- The program is accessible and inclusive to anyone living in an NSG area no matter their age, ethnicity, income, cultural background, gender, ability and sexual orientation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Anyone who lives in British Columbia (BC) can apply.
- You may not apply on behalf of a business or registered organization, but you may apply on behalf of an informal group (for example, a meetup or shared interest group).
- These grants are meant for groups of people who live in the same community and the projects are meant to take place in the area where they live. Projects can be carried out by individuals and/or family members from the same household or in collaboration with a neighbour virtually.
For more information, visit https://cvcfoundation.org/grant-seekers/neighbourhood-small-grants/