Deadline: 24-Jan-2025
Applications are now open for Alberta’s Anti-Racism Grant to focus on anti-racism activities and initiatives that help address and prevent racism and promote more inclusive and accepting multicultural communities across Alberta.
The grant will support community organizations in Alberta to implement initiatives that combat discrimination and address systemic racism by providing funding for projects that increase public education and enable Albertans to recognize and value cultural differences and heritage.
The program will also support smaller grassroots Indigenous and/or ethnocultural groups to deliver programs and services through partnerships with larger organizations.
Objectives
- Objective 1: Educate Albertans on racism and the impacts of racism faced by Indigenous and racialized groups. The program outcomes for this objective are:
- Albertans have an increased understanding of racism, its impacts and the challenges faced by Indigenous and racialized groups.
- Albertans have increased knowledge to identify racism and how to address racism and racist acts.
- Albertans have increased awareness of the resources and tools that organizations provide to support Anti-Racism initiatives.
- Objective 2: Enable community organizations to develop their ability to support anti-racism projects. The program outcomes for this objective are:
- Racialized communities have support to fully participate in the community. (Examples are training and employment, mentorship programs for internationally trained professionals, support or education for marginalized communities to navigate supports.)
- Racialized communities have capacity to continue open and honest conversations about racism, microaggressions and promoting awareness about their impact.
Types of Streams
- The program supports initiatives that help prevent and address racism. There are 2 funding streams:
- Stream 1
- Projects for grant funding must align with at least one of the identified outcomes listed under either of the program objectives.
- Stream 2
- Projects for grant funding must align with at least one of the identified outcomes listed under both of the program objectives.
- Stream 1
Funding Information
- Applicants may request:
- Up to a maximum of $5,000 for Stream 1.
- Up to a maximum of $10,000 for Stream 2.
Eligible Costs
- The following costs may be considered as eligible expenses through this program funding:
- Costs associated directly with the delivery of the project.
- Costs associated with addressing barriers to accessing project activities.
- Administrative costs (up to 15% of grant budget).
- In-kind costs (if applicable).
Ineligible Costs
- The following costs are not eligible for program funding:
- Time and labour provided towards preparation of funding applications, fundraising (including costs for fundraising campaigns), and websites for fundraising purposes.
- Expenses incurred and paid prior to the submission of the application and project start date.
- Capital purchases and facility upgrades, renovations, and construction.
- Debt reduction; financing charges and/or interest payments on loans; retroactive expenses incurred prior to grant execution.
- Food costs as a substantial expense for the project activities (not more than 20% of total budget).
- Parking fees.
- Research as a stand-alone project.
- Government lobbying or political activism.
- Volunteer expenses (with the exception of honorarium and gifts for protocol).
- Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Eligible Projects
- Projects must meet all the following criteria in order to be considered eligible for funding:
- Must meet one or more of the program outcomes.
- Must be able to measure what the project will achieve, aligned to the program outcome.
- Must take place in Alberta and benefit Albertans.
- Must start on or after April 1, 2025and be completed March 31, 2026.
Ineligible Projects
- The following are not eligible for program funding:
- Projects that have already started or started incurring costs.
- Projects that are not directly related to promoting anti-racism in Alberta.
- Projects that are fully funded through other funding sources.
- Projects that are receiving or have received funding through any other Government of Alberta project grant programs (project applicants are encouraged to apply for the Government of Alberta project grant program that most closely aligns to the organization’s mandate and/or project goals).
- Projects that are not deemed to meet one of the program outcomes.
- Research studies or reports that are academic in its nature or its primary purpose.
- Projects that include government lobbying or political activism.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following organizations that are legal entities and incorporated or registered for a period of at least one year, have an Alberta-based address, and are operating in Alberta are eligible to apply for funding:
- Non-profit organizations (under an Act of the Alberta legislature or the Parliament of Canada), including ethnocultural, multicultural and faith-based organizations.
- Indigenous (e.g., First Nations or Metis) governments, tribal councils, band councils, settlements, and/or not-for-profit Indigenous organizations.
- Community development organizations.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are not eligible for program funding:
- Arms-length municipal or municipal district affiliated organizations (e.g., libraries), except in the case of partnerships noted above;
- For-profit organizations/corporations, except in the case of partnerships noted above;
- Public sector entities (e.g., public post-secondary institutions schools, school boards, hospitals, health authorities, etc.), except in the case of partnerships noted above;
- Federal and provincial crown corporations applying for individual projects;
- Federal, provincial, or municipal governments applying for individual projects;
- Political parties;
- Individuals.
Application Requirements
- In order to process applications, the information requested from applicants needs to be fully completed and all questions on the online form must be answered.
- A complete application consists of the following mandatory components:
- Online Grant Application Form and Budget Template: An authorized representative must digitally sign the Online Grant Application Form.
- Supporting documents to be uploaded and saved to the online application:
- Most recent financial statement (audited or unaudited), or Council/Board Resolution signed by authorized representative(s);
- Application for Electronic Payment Form.
- One (or two maximum) support letter(s) or email(s) speaking to the organization’s knowledge and experience regarding the proposed project.
For more information, visit Government of Alberta.