Deadline: 24-Nov-22
The City of Toronto’s Indigenous Affairs Office invites Indigenous-led grassroots groups and collectives to apply for capacity-building grants, which can be used to create new projects, enhance existing programs or improve group operations.
Funding Information
- Groups can apply for one grant of up to $20,000. There is a total of $450,000 available this year in this year’s grant program.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be an Indigenous-led grassroots group and collective, operating on a not-for-profit basis.
- Grassroots groups or collectives must have a bank account in their group name to receive the funds or have a trustee.
- Programs and activities must take place in Toronto.
- Commercial or for-profit organizations or businesses cannot apply.
- Collectives or grassroots groups with City of Toronto staff members cannot apply.
- Funds cannot be used for fundraising events, donations to charitable, political or religious organizations, or debt repayment/deficit funding.
- Indigenous-led groups have a majority of leadership that self-identify as First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis. For example, two out of three or four out of seven members of a collective must be First Nations, Inuit or Métis. At least 50 per cent of membership is First Nations, Inuit or Métis.
- Grassroots groups or collectives have two or more community members working together under a group name either on a single project or on an ongoing basis.
For more information, visit Capacity-Building Grant.
For more information, visit https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/grants-incentives-rebates/capacity-building-grants-for-indigenous-led-collectives-grassroots-resident-groups/