Deadline: 1-Apr-24
Applications are now open for the Community Grants Program to support non-profit organizations and volunteers in providing a range of leisure, learning and recreational opportunities for residents and the provision of programs, services and amenities to enhance public safety and the well-being of individuals and families with special needs.
Funding Categories
- Affordable Housing
- Purpose: Enhance housing availability, suitability and affordability.
- Priorities
- Housing in underserved, remote, rural or suburban communities located outside the regional center.
- housing for persons who face barriers to tenancy based on income, age, race/ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigrant or refugee status
- enhance building safety and state of good repair
- Community Arts
- Purpose: Encourage residents’ engagement in the arts as a learning or leisure activity.
- Priorities
- projects that engage residents in the arts as a community engagement activity, or to preserve and express cultural identity
- broaden the inclusion and active participation of diverse identities, whether those identities are based in ability, culture or geographic location
- the production and presentation of works by non-professional arts organizations and organizations whose mandate is not arts based
- Community Histories
- Purpose: Protect, interpret and present the region’s culturally diverse histories.
- Priorities
- broaden the inclusion and active participation of diverse communities
- engage residents in community-based research, interpretation and presentation
- encourage self representation
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Purpose: Address barriers to participation based on physical or cognitive disability, race or ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity or income.
- Priorities
- actions to identify and reduce barriers to access a program or service due to a physical or cognitive disability
- actions to address the representation and participation of persons, families, and communities based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, geographic location or income
- projects that present the municipality as a welcoming community to immigrants, refugees, and newcomers.
- Emergency Assistance and Public Safety
- Purpose: Community based support for individuals and families unable to meet their basic needs for daily living and projects that enhance public safety.
- Priorities
- accommodation and support services located outside the capital region for persons who are temporarily homeless or at risk of homelessness
- programs and services for individuals and families unable to meet their need for safety, food, shelter or basic household items
- safety education and risk prevention or reduction
- Environment & Climate Change
- Purpose: Prevent or remedy harm to the environment.
- Priorities
- protect or conserve the natural environment
- recognize and support the participation and representation of culturally diverse communities in environmental stewardship
- public education and engagement
- Leisure
- Purpose: Strengthen social connections through access to group activities.
- Priorities
- projects that provide or enhance public access to a program, service, or facility to encourage social interaction, unstructured or passive play activities and community gatherings
- amenities in communities with limited access to public facilities
- projects that encourage affordable and inclusive programming for a range of ages and abilities
- Recreation
- Purpose: Encourage physical activity and fitness.
- Priorities
- entry level learning opportunities and exposure to an activity (not high-performance training or competition)
- children, youth, lower income individuals and families
- affordability and inclusivity
Type of Grants
- Project grants: the dollar value of a project grant ranges from $500 to $5,000.
- Capital grants: the dollar value of a capital grant ranges from over $5,000 to a maximum of $25,000. Capital projects which request a grant of more than $5,000 must provide two competing quotes or, where it is not possible to obtain competing quotes, a statement explaining why only one quote is provided in the application. Applications without quotes may be declined. Applicants are not required to select the lowest priced quote.
- For clarity, capital grants shall only be awarded towards the following:
- the purchase of real property
- construction, repairs, renovation, upgrade or improvements to real property owned by the applicant
- the purchase of a large or specialized item of equipment costing over $5,000 per item
- a public artwork, monument, or installation
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations eligible to apply to the program must be registered under one of the following legislative acts:
- a non-profit society incorporated under the Nova Scotia Societies Act
- a non-profit association incorporated under the Nova Scotia Co-operatives Associations Act
- a not-for-profit corporation incorporated under the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act
- a non-profit organization otherwise incorporated under an act of the Nova Scotia Legislature or an act of the Parliament of Canada
- a charitable organization registered under the Income Tax Act (Canada) and registered with the Canada Revenue Agency
- Joint applications from two or more eligible non-profit organizations are acceptable but the maximum value of grant remains the same. Grants will not be issued to unregistered groups, except in the case of a joint application in partnership with a registered non-profit or charitable organization. Any award will be issued to the registered co-applicant.
For more information, visit Halifax Regional Municipality.
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