Deadline: 9-Mar-22
The TELUS Friendly Future Foundation Community Board Grant Program is now open to support as many registered charities as possible.
The TELUS Community Boards provide a collaborative and unique funding model enabling local community leaders to make recommendations on grants supporting at-risk youth across Canada. Canadian registered charities that offer community-based health, education or technology programs for at-risk youth are eligible to apply.
The TELUS Community Boards, funded by the TELUS Friendly Future Foundation, support local grassroots initiatives from Canadian registered charities who focus on vulnerable youth through health, educational and technology programs.
Funding Information
Your program will achieve success with a single-year grant of up to $20,000, with the exception of the TELUS Barrie & Simcoe County Community Board whose maximum grant is $10,000
Funding Criteria
To qualify for funding, your organization meets the following criteria:
- You are a Canada Revenue Agency registered charity located and operating within a TELUS Community Board region with a stated focus on serving at-risk youth
- Your programs create measurable community health and technology outcomes
- Your organization has not applied to any TELUS Friendly Future Foundation funding channel more than once per calendar year and your organization has not received a grant from any TELUS Friendly Future Foundation funding channel within the past 24 months
Ineligible Criteria
Requests considered ineligible for TELUS Community Board Grants include:
- Fiduciary intermediary relationships, where a non-profit organization leverages the charitable status of another registered charity
- Community-based programs of religious organizations that are unable to show a history of non-denominational participation by the broader community
- Programs with an active grant application to any other funding channel of the TELUS Friendly Future Foundation
- Requests for TELUS products and services or laptops, tablets and mobile phones
- Requests for sponsorships, advertising, retroactive funding and international programs
- Requests for capital campaigns, endowments or debt reduction campaigns
Deadlines
- British Columbia
- Vancouver Community Board
- January 7, 2022
- March 18, 2022
- July 29, 2022
- September 9, 2022
- Vancouver Island Community Board
- April 5, 2022
- August 9, 2022
- September 27, 2022
- Thompson Okanagan Community Board
- January 28, 2022
- April 6, 2022
- September 9, 2022
- Vancouver Community Board
- Alberta
- Edmonton Community Board
- March 9, 2022
- July 7, 2022
- September 7, 2022
- Calgary Community Board
- March 22, 2022
- July 13, 2022
- September 20, 2022
- Edmonton Community Board
- Manitoba
- December 31, 2022
- March 18, 2022
- August 19, 2022
- Ontario
- Greater Toronto Area Community Board
- January 27, 2022
- March 30, 2022
- August 4, 2022
- September 14, 2022
- Barrie and Simcoe County Community Board
- April 7, 2022
- September 22, 2022
- Ottawa Community Board
- January 28, 2022
- March 11, 2022
- August 26, 2022
- Greater Toronto Area Community Board
- Quebec
- Montreal Community Board
- January 28, 2022
- March 31, 2022
- July 15, 2022
- September 29, 2022
- Rimouski Community Board
- January 21, 2022
- April 29, 2022
- September 30, 2022
- Quebec City Community Board
- January 28, 2022
- April 22, 2022
- October 7, 2022
- Montreal Community Board
- Atlantic Canada
- January 15, 2022
- June 1, 2022
- October 1, 2022
For more information, visit https://www.friendlyfuture.com/en/foundation/apply-for-funding