Deadline: 02-Nov-20
The City of Kamloops is welcoming for non-profit organizations and societies for a 2021 Social and Community Development Grant (formerly the Social Planning Grant).
For the 2021 funding cycle, the Social and Community Development Grants have evolved to meet the needs of the community in uncertain times. The grants will continue to provide funding for projects that address priorities identified in the Kamloops Social Plan, but they will now also support programs, projects, and services that align with City Council’s Strategic goal of livability.
Applications may be submitted for operational costs, special projects, special capital expenditures, or one-year seed money for a social enterprise initiative.
Applicants will need to demonstrate the following:
- address at least one priority of the Kamloops Social Plan and/or address at least one of the following areas of focus as identified in the City Council Strategic Plan under Livability: Healthy Community, Housing, Inclusivity, Places and Spaces, and Safety;
- adhere to the principles of the Sustainable Kamloops Plan;
- strengthen and enhance the well-being of the community;
- promote volunteering, where appropriate;
- address social and community issues and concerns;
- improve community or agency capacity to meet specific social and/or community needs;
- promote cultural understanding, as applicable;
- partner with other service providers in the community;
- be well publicized in the community;
- occur within the city of Kamloops.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a Social and Community Development Grant, all of the following criteria
must be met:
- The organization must be a registered non-profit society. It must have an independent, active government body composed of volunteers. The bylaws must have provisions that no Board Director can be remunerated for being a director and staff members cannot be voting members of the Board or Executive.
- The organization must extend its service to the general public and shall not exclude anyone by reason of religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, language, disability, or income, except in instances where it can be proven that exclusion of some groups is required for effective service delivery to the target group.
- The organization must have the demonstrated functional capacity and sufficient resources to deliver the project or proposed services to which the City is being asked to contribute.
- The project or proposed services must address specific current social and community issues or concerns.
- Projects or proposed services are required to align with either the Kamloops Social Plan (Kamloops.ca/SocialPlan) or the Kamloops City Council Strategic Plan 2019–2022 (Kamloops.ca/StrategicPlan).
- Costs must be reasonable when compared with projects or proposed services of a similar scope and scale.
- The project or proposed services must primarily serve Kamloops residents.
*All applicants will be notified if they have been approved or denied in early December after a thorough evaluation process by the Social Planning Engagement Group, which is facilitated by City staff. Final determination of awards will be made in December 2020.
For more information, visit https://www.kamloops.ca/our-community/news-events/news-releases/call-applications-now-open-city-kamloops-2021-social-and