Catherine Donnelly Foundation Grant Program in Canada

Deadline: 4-Aug-22

The Catherine Donnelly Foundation is now seeking applications for its Grant Program.

The Catherine Donnelly Foundation has been established to provide a long-term way to serve specific community needs anywhere in Canada.

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.

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