Deadline: 2-Dec-22
The Municipality of Kincardine is excited to announce the Community Investment Grant (CIG) to provide financial assistance to local non-profit organizations for projects and events that will have a positive impact on the quality of life in the community.
Funding Streams
The funding supports, promotes, informs, celebrates, preserves and/or provides access to:
- Arts: creative activity by professionals or non-professionals in various fine and applied art forms including but not limited to: visual, performing and performance, literary, media, and decorative arts;
- Culture: beliefs, customs and traditions of certain communities, societies, or cultural groups relating to language, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual identity, disability, religion, class, and diversity;
- Heritage: identification, documentation, interpretation, or preservation of built heritage (structure, building or group of buildings, landscape), cultural heritage (archaeology, archives, genealogy, monuments, museums and galleries/collections), historic people and events, and traditions (customs and beliefs);
- Sports, Recreation: activities contributing to physical health and well-being including: participation in sports leagues, instructional sports, fitness and wellness activities, leisure and hobby activities;
- Social, Health: programs and services supportive to the social determinants of health (state of complete physical, mental and social well-being with a focus on prevention; access to housing, food and clothing, freedom from violence);
- Environment: beautification, conservation, documentation, interpretation, preservation, restoration, and research of the environment/natural heritage (air, water, flora, fauna, and natural landscape);
- Tourism: attraction of visitors, promotion or encouragement of touring, growth of the Municipality’s tourism market, development of new and improved experiences for tourists, increase tourism activity;
- Other: projects outside other streams that contribute to the quality of life in the Municipality.
Ineligible Activities
- The following are not eligible for funding:
- flow through funding (where the intent is to directly re-distribute the same funds to others);
- Deficit funding or retroactive funding (for past shortfalls);
- Debt retirement or depreciation costs;
- Duplication of funding received from another source where total funding would exceed costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations can apply for a grant if they:
- Are a local non-profit community group
- Are based within the Municipality of Kincardine, or provide services to residents
- Demonstrate financial or volunteer support for the project
- Have submitted any outstanding Accountability Statements from previous CIGs.
For more information, visit https://www.kincardine.ca/en/living-here/community-investment-grant.aspx