Capacity Grant Program in Canada

Deadline: 28-Oct-22

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is accepting applications from non-profit, community-based organizations, incorporated municipalities, including Indigenous community governments and organizations.

The Capacity Grants are crucial to enable persons with disabilities to become fully engaged in their community and to lead transformative change towards more independence, self-management and genuine community inclusion. The enduring legacy of a capacity grant will be its impact over the long term and how it has affected the lives of persons with disabilities.

Funds will be awarded based on merit and availability pending Government annual budget process, with the intention of enabling persons with disabilities to:

become fully engaged in their communities
lead transformative change towards independence, autonomy, self-management and self-determination, and genuine inclusion in society and community.

Five Strategic Directions

Applications will be considered in the following areas:

Build a Positive Image of Disability
- Goals include:
  - Promote a positive and respectful image of disability
  - Build public understanding of barriers experienced by persons with disabilities
  - Increase knowledge within private public and non-profit sectors about creating barrier free environments
  - Increase knowledge and acceptance of the rights of persons with disabilities
Engage Persons with Disabilities in Decision-Making
- Goals include:
  - Incorporate expertise and knowledge of people with personal experience of disability into government policies, programs and services
  - Support the capacity of community organizations of and for persons with disabilities to engage with government on policy directions
  - Support planning processes at local, community, regional and provincial levels to be inclusive of persons with disabilities
Increase Access to Disability-Related Supports
- Goals Include:
  - Reduce financial costs associated with having a disability for individuals and their families
  - Incorporate flexibility into programs and services for families and individuals
  - Improve access to disability-related supports including personal supports and assistive technologies
  - Build knowledge of disability-related supports throughout the province
Deliver Services with Dignity, Fairness and Support
- Goals Include:
  - Facilitate public and private sector providing services to persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others
  - Increase knowledge of disability-related supports and ways to remove barriers amongst providers
  - Deliver timely provision of complete and accurate information about Provincial Government programs and services
  - Incorporate inclusion and disability perspectives into existing and future policy frameworks
Increase Accessibility in the Built Environment
- Goals include:
  - Maximize accessibility of existing buildings and facilities and new buildings and facilities where there is public access
  - Increase options for accessible housing within public and private sectors and promote visibility and universal design throughout the province
  - Increase accessible and affordable transportation options throughout the province
  - Incorporate Universal Design principles into policy, procedures and legislation.

Funding Information

This application -basedprogram provides grants of up to $50,000 for eligible projects.

Prospective Projects

Applicants must:
- Identify how the project meets oneor more of the five strategic directions of the government of Newfoundland and Labrador to identify, prevent and remove barriers
- Design the work to include a cross-disability perspective
- Develop a project plan including objectives, scope of work, and deliverables
- Manage all human resource and financial requirements related to the project
- Work collaboratively with DPO on the deliverables of the project
- Submit a final report outlining achievements, materials developed where relevant and a financial report
- To demonstrate alignment with the program objectives standardized reporting requirements will be provided to successful applicants.

Eligibility Criteria

Non-profit organizations
Community-based organizations
Incorporated municipalities, including Indigenous community governments and organizations
Applicant’s project has clear deliverables that prevent and remove barriers to inclusion in the province
Has cross disability perspective integrated in the project
One year project that has a long term capacity to address one or more of the five strategic directions