Community Impact Fund: Annual Investment Process (Canada)

Deadline: 4-Nov-22

The United Way Hastings & Prince Edward has announced the applications for Community Impact Fund: Annual Investment Process.

United Way of Hastings & Prince Edward (HPE) is proud to be a respected fundraising organization and trusted community partner. In an effort to continue to bring about measurable and permanent change for people throughout Hastings and Prince Edward Counties, United Way HPE has created three priority areas that are supported by the communities’ not-for-profit social services sector following extensive research that began in 2011. These priority areas include All that Kids Can Be, From Poverty to Possibility and Strong Communities.

Each of these priorities is part of a larger strategy known as Community Impact (CI). Community Impact can be defined as making fundamental changes to community conditions, which includes, but is not limited to allocating funds through the annual fundraising campaign. Ultimately, it is about people and organizations coming together to create lasting measurable change.

The CI strategy will be achieved by identifying the root causes of key local issues, developing strategies to address them, bringing together the funding and resources needed to get the job done, and finally, measuring the results.

Priority Pillars

• Proposals must address one of United Way HPE’s three priority pillars:
  • All that Kids Can Be
    • Engagement in Learning: Children and youth are supported in their optimal development and prepared initially for school, for the challenges they face and for transitions to postsecondary education and meaningful employment.
    • Connectedness & Community Involvement: Young people feel respected and trusted within the communities they live creating a strong sense of place and belonging where youth thrive and contribute, empowered to meet the high expectations they have of themselves and their community has for them.
    • Emotional & Physical Wellbeing: Young people have meaningful, healthy relationships with at least one adult and benefit from accessible and affordable opportunities to form healthy peer relationships and lifestyles.
  • From Poverty to Possibility or
    • Access to Basic Needs: To reduce the human, social, and economic costs of poverty on their community by improving access to and affordability of the basic needs of life.
    • Employment, Skills Building & Financial Security: To improve opportunities for individuals to retain and maintain familysustaining, meaningful employment or income that promotes economic self-sufficiency
    • Improving the Service System: To strengthen a service system that supports a ‘person-first’ approach, with increasing integration and collaboration among community services, improved access through intensive case coordination and decentralizing service delivery.
  • Strong Communities
    • Neighbourhood & Community Engagement: To encourage an increased sense of neighbourhood where people interact, become involved in and contribute in various ways to their community.
    • Connecting People to Supports: To ensure people in their community are aware of and able to access programs and services relevant to their needs.
    • Personal Wellbeing & Safety: To strengthen their community, fostering an environment of health, safety and independence and better positioning individuals and families to react when their health and/or safety is compromised.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible Organizations
  • Eligibility for United Way HPE funding includes, but is not limited to, the following:
    • The agency must align with United Way HPE Community Impact Strategy and,
    • The agency provides services to residents of Hastings County and/or Prince Edward County and,
    • A volunteer Board of Directors governs the agency and,
    • The agency provides audited annual financial statements and,
    • The agency must be an organization that is a qualified donee under Canada Revenue Agency.

Ineligible

• United Way Hastings & Prince Edward does NOT fund:
  • Organizations that are primarily religious in nature or political in nature
  • The arts
  • Medical research
  • Costs for major capital equipment or expenses that relate to the construction of new buildings, renovations to existing buildings or the purchase of office equipment or furniture that does not have a direct relation to program delivery.

For more information, visit HPE.

For more information, visit https://unitedwayhpe.ca/community-impact-fund-annual-investment-process/