Deadline: 12-Feb-2024
Applications are now open for the Anti-Racism Grant to help promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, address racism and strengthen the link between racial equality and community cohesion in Prince Edward Island.
This grant is focused on anti-racism initiatives. Anti-racism initiatives seek to actively identify, remove, prevent, and mitigate racially inequitable outcomes and power imbalances between groups and change the structures that sustain these inequities.
Funding Information
- A total fund of $100,000 is available for disbursement to successful applicants.
Eligible Projects
- Projects eligible for funding must include activities to promote:
- Anti-Racism education and awareness
- Community support and capacity-building
- Changes to organizational governance that help address racism
- Eligible projects can include activities that do the following:
- Create and/or implement seminars, workshops, training, mentorship that address racism
- Target online hate and promote digital literacy;
- Promote social participation and reduce barriers in community sport, arts and culture;
- Create and maintain historical resources that address the presence of systemic racism in Prince Edward Island;
- Enhance capacity-building for racialized communities and organizations. Special emphasis will be given to initiatives that support Indigenous persons, racialized women, youth, seniors, the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community, gender-diverse individuals, persons with disabilities, or religious minorities;
- Promote interventions for youth that encourage positive relationships between communities and the criminal justice system;
- Help racialized and Indigenous persons thrive in the community after contact with the justice system;
- Translate and/or adapt information integral for community integration;
- Enhance an organization’s ability to promote Anti-Racism;
- Create Anti-Racism mentorship opportunities;
- Build Anti-Racism policies/strategies, and a measuring component to assess long-term impacts;
- Strengthen organizational projects and advocacy.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant organizations must be PEI-based non-profit or charitable organizations (including those defined by Canada Revenue Agency as Qualified Donors). Applicant organizations can be based in any region of the province and their work may fall within any scope represented by the non-profit/charitable sector. Individuals are not eligible to apply. If applicant organizations are partnering with other organizations, groups, or individuals. The nature of the partnership must be well defined and substantiated within the ‘project description’ of the application.
- Partner organizations may include, but are not limited to, other not-for-profit entities, businesses, publicly funded entities such as municipalities, schools, and post-secondary institutions, etc. Organizations operating in other jurisdictions within Canada are eligible to be partner organizations.
- The following groups and organizations can apply by 11:59 p.m. on February 12, 2024:
- Indigenous governments, bands, councils, or non-profits;
- Non-profit organizations, institutions and associations;
- Municipalities;
- Registered charities;
- Advocacy groups;
- Educational institutions.
Ineligible
- The following groups and organizations would be considered ineligible for direct funding (*can be eligible as a partner or additional funding organization with eligible organizations listed above):
- For-profit organizations;
- Federal and provincial governments;
- Provincial or federal crown agencies, boards, commissions, or corporations;
- Public sector entities (e.g. school boards, hospitals, health authorities, etc.).
For more information, visit Government of Prince Edward Island.