Deadline: 31-Jan-2025
Applications are now open for the Women & Girls Fund Program to support organizations at the heart the women’s movement, whose core activities, leadership, mission and vision are committed to advancing gender equity.
Priorities
- The proposed funding will support your organization’s ability to provide programs, services and/or advocacy initiatives, either directly through funding program or service costs or indirectly through funding core operational costs, that align with one or more of the Foundation’s funding priorities:
- provide opportunities to address basic needs or develop economic self-sufficiency for women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals,
- strengthen and/or provide health and safety programs for women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals
- promote the education of women, girls and gender-diverse individuals, and/or
- invest in systems and sustainable change efforts in diversity, equity and inclusion.
Funding Information
- Contributing $5000 annually
What they fund?
- Innovative new projects
- Short term projects
- Seed funding for long term projects
- Focus on vibrant, healthy, caring community through supporting, advocating, or addressing needs of women and girls
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be operating in and/or serving the Central Alberta region
- Applicants must be incorporated non-profit organizations and have a valid charitable number from Canada Revenue Agency or be a First Nations Band or municipality designated as a qualified donee by Canada Revenue Agency. If your organization does not have charitable status or is not a qualified donee, they can consider an application in partnership with another organization that is a registered charity or qualified donee with a mandate relevant to your proposal.
- Gender-based programming, services, and/or advocacy are central to your project’s mission, and you have experience offering gender-based programs, services, and/or advocacy initiatives with/for women, girls, Two Spirit, trans, and non-binary people who face multiple barriers and are underserved, including:
- First Nations, Métis, and Inuit
- Black
- 2SLGBTQI+
- Living with disabilities
- Living in rural or remote communities
- Racialized, Refugee, immigrant, or non-status
- Living on low incomes
- Older/Seniors
- Young
Ineligibility Criteria
- What they normally do not fund?
- Ongoing core administrative expenses
- Partisan political or singular direct religious activities
- Building an endowment, fundraising expenses
- Debt reduction or emergency funding
For more information, visit Red Deer & District Community Foundation.