Deadline: 30-Jun-22
Applications are now open for the LGBTQ2 Projects Fund to protect rights and improving equality for LGBTQ2 communities, stigma and discrimination persist, and drive long-standing and ongoing inequities between LGBTQ2 and non-LGBTQ2 people in Canada in a broad range of areas.
Objective: The objective of this call for proposals is to support community-informed projects that will address key issues facing LGBTQ2 communities.
Priorities
- address barriers to equality for underrepresented LGBTQ2 people. This includes LGBTQ2 people who are Indigenous, Black and racialized, seniors, youth, low income, live with a disability, or are members of an official language minority community. It also includes those who live in a rural, remote and/or northern community.
- address any other gap, such as geography, as deemed by the Department
Key action areas
Projects must support actions in one or more of the following areas:
- Policies and practices
- Knowledge, tools, and support
- Norms, attitudes, and behaviours
- Authority, voice, and decision-making
- Increasing impact through cross-sector collaboration
Funding Information & Duration
For these projects, the maximum amounts (total per project) are:
- Up to $200,000 in total for projects with a local reach. Project activities cover at least one community, such as a town, city, or regional municipality.
- Up to $400,000 in total for projects with a regional, provincial or territorial reach. Project activities cover parts of a province or territory, an entire province or territory, or a few adjacent provinces or territories. Projects that cover one of Canada’s three largest municipalities would qualify as regional: Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal and Greater Vancouver area.
- Up to $600,000 in total for projects with a pan-Canadian reach. Project activities must have impact in at least four WAGE regions and be carried out in both official languages (both official languages not required for Indigenous organizations).
- Projects should aim to start no earlier than late fall 2022 and must end by March 31, 2024.
Eligible Projects
Examples of eligible project activities include
- Change legislation, policies and practices that discriminate against LGBTQ2 people.
- Work with professionals and service-providers to identify and remove barriers for LGBTQ2 clients. For example:
- make changes so it is easier to access services
- find ways to better work with LGBTQ2 clients and meet their needs
- provide education opportunities to change negative assumptions and attitudes about LGBTQ2 clients
- Reduce the negative impact on LGBTQ2 clients from discriminatory and harmful practices, like conversion therapy. Work with faith leaders to end anti-LGBTQ2 discrimination and harmful practices.
- Plan and use community-based approaches to remove intersectional barriers to equality for LGBTQ2 communities. This includes LGBTQ2 people who are Indigenous, Black, racialized, seniors, youth, low income, who live with a disability or are members of an official language minority community. It also includes those who live in rural, remote and northern communities.
- For example, projects can deal with:
- anti-racism in LGBTQ2 communities
- anti-LGBTQ2 discrimination in different cultural or geographic communities
- a specific need or inequality faced by an intersectional LGBTQ2 community.
- Find ways to increase LGBTQ2 representation in political, civic, public and private sectors
- Plan and test tools and workshops used:
- by LGBTQ2 people to learn about and access spaces or services (for example, how-to guides and interactive tools)
- by LGBTQ2 people to help navigate systems (for example, seeking health care or employment)
- by non-LGBTQ2 people to remove barriers for LGBTQ2 people.
- Improve reconciliation and distinction-based approaches for Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ2 people.
- Collaborate with other existing groups or equality-seeking organizations to extend the reach or impact of a project (Note: this does not include establishing new formalized networks of LGBTQ2 organizations e.g., “The national LGBTQ2 Career Counsellor Network” as this would be considered capacity building.)
- Adapt a successful project used by another organization, community, province, territory or country. The project must include at least one activity
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants must be legally constituted not-for-profit Canadian organizations that work primarily or entirely with LGBTQ2 communities.
- To show this you must provide your mandate and describe your organization’s experience.
For more information, visit https://women-gender-equality.canada.ca/en/funding/funding-programs/lgbtq2-projects-fund-call-for-proposals/about.html