Catherine Donnelly Foundation Grant in Canada

Deadline: 1-Feb-23

The Catherine Donnelly Foundation (CDF) is seeking applications for its Grant Program.

Scope & Focus

• The Catherine Donnelly Foundation has been established to provide a long-term way to serve specific community needs anywhere in Canada. Generally, The Catherine Donnelly Foundation will use its endowment to fund projects/programs that address community needs in three primary areas:
  • Adult Education Advancement Initiatives: The Foundation will consider applications from groups and organizations that use adult education processes that promote justice and equity for New Canadians, especially refugees and migrant workers, Indigenous peoples and other marginalized or excluded populations.
  • Environmental Enhancement Initiatives: The Foundation will consider applications that catalyze a significant increase in public support and advocacy for fast and deep-reaching systemic climate change solutions, paired with a rapid shift toward green consumption and behavioural patterns at the level of the individual.
  • Housing Initiatives: The Foundation will consider applications for projects that address homelessness and the scandalous lack of affordable housing through research, policy development, effective communication initiatives, capacity building and advocacy within the sector.

Objectives

• Adult Education Advancement Initiatives
  • The Foundation will support projects that use adult education processes to:
    • Facilitate marginalized people to collectively name the racism, poverty, violence or other forms of exclusion and oppression they experience.
    • Engage marginalized groups, and allies, in developing: critical analysis of the social, political and/or economic roots of problems they experience; recognizing and building on their group’s strengths; and developing strategies to achieve change.
    • Develop leadership, communication and organizational skills that allow marginalized people and allies to initiate and accomplish action for change.
    • Involve groups in participatory research to develop action strategies.
• Housing Initiatives
  • Projects that the Foundation will consider supporting may include projects that:
    • Mobilize public engagement/education, animate action through information dissemination and that advocate for sustainable solutions to Canada’s homelessness and affordable housing crisis;
    • Advance public policy development in the housing sector;
    • Strengthen networks and collective strategies among non-profit housing groups and organizations.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Foundation seeks applicant organizations that:
  • Are registered Canadian charities
  • Can provide evidence that their operative values are consistent with those of the Catherine Donnelly Foundation
  • Work in areas where the needs are greatest
  • Work with persons not served or reached by traditional programs
  • Are undertaking projects or programs that have promise as a model for imitation in other Canadian communities and will train others to set up similar programs
  • Partner with other like valued organizations to achieve shared goals.

Exclusions

• The Catherine Donnelly Foundation will not consider funding the following:
  • Retroactive funding
  • Fund raising campaigns
  • Operating deficits
  • Projects outside of Canada
  • Emergency appeals
  • Purely commercial recordings or film projects.

Ineligible

• The Catherine Donnelly Foundation does not fund the following:
  • Retroactive funding
  • Fundraising campaigns
  • Operating deficits
  • Projects outside of Canada
  • Emergency appeals
  • Purely commercial recordings or film projects.

For more information, visit CDF.