Deadline: 3-Jun-22
The NIB Trust Fund is now accepting applications for funding from individuals for the 2022-2023 year.
The goal of the NIB Trust Fund is to help First Nations, Métis people, and communities address the impacts of the Indian residential school system, and to provide resourcing to create meaningful opportunities that improve the quality of life for First Nations and Métis people.
The NIB Trust Fund supports a wide range of activities for First Nations and Métis applicants pursuing education, including but not limited to:
- Programs that promote the preservation, reclamation, development, or understanding of First Nations or Métis history, cultures, or languages
- Cultural education (traditional teachings, workshops, ceremony, etc.)
- Healing programming
- Post-secondary education
- Training, trade skills
- Certification
- Professional development and job skill training
- And more!
What is the different between an Award, Bursary, and Scholarship?
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When applying to the NIB Trust Fund Individual Call for Applications, applicants will be required to choose which type of funding award they are applying for. Funding to successful applicants is dispersed in the form of:
- Award (Healing, Cultural/ Language/ Traditional Knowledge Building) – Awards are dollar amounts for individuals who wish to pursue healing, cultural, language, or traditional knowledge building. This could include life skills programs, learning a language or skill from an elder or expert, learning traditional ceremonies, acquiring land-based skills, learning to sew traditional clothes, traditional hunting/skinning/trapping learning, etc.
- Bursary (Training/Certification) – Bursaries are money awards for certificate programs and training from nonpost-secondary institutions (i.e. Nechi Institute, AFOA, CECEP, Trade school, or other formal non-university).
- Scholarship (Post-Secondary) – Scholarships are money awards for post-secondary education studies (i.e. University and College level studies).
Funding Information
- Currently, individuals can apply for a maximum of up to $20,000.
Eligible Activities
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Eligible activities include but are not limited to:
- Universities, colleges, cegep;
- Trade or training schools;
- Technical training for career advancement;
- Programs which promote the preservation, reclamation, development, or understanding of First Nations or Métis history, cultures, or languages;
- Cultural education-traditional, ceremony knowledge building;
- Strengthen education and employment training; or
- Foster community and personal development, including access to counseling and other programs to heal communities from harms caused by the Indian Residential Schools.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Individual Call for Applications is open to First Nations and Métis people ages 18 and over with a social insurance number.
- Individuals may apply for funding in the form of a scholarship, bursary, or award from the NIB Trust Fund through the online application accessible at nibtrust.ca.
For more information, visit NIB Trust Fund.
For more information, visit https://nibtrust.ca/news/nib-trust-fund-announces-the-2022-2023-individual-call-for-applications-is-now-open