Deadline: 15-Mar-22
The Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta (CFLSA) is offering grants under “Community Priorities Fund”.
The Community Priorities Grants Program is the Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta’s largest granting program. Each year, this fund awards over $400,000 to qualified donees in Southwestern Alberta. Funding for this program comes from donors across southwestern Alberta that made unrestricted gifts to the Community Foundation. These donors trust that the Community Priorities Grants Committee and Board of Directors will allocate funding to worthy causes throughout the region.
The Community Foundation does not provide Community Priorities Grants to organizations that were approved for grant funding in the previous year. This does not apply to school districts, municipalities, or charities applying in partnership with non-registered groups.
Funding Information
The Community Priorities Fund will not consider requests for funding over $15,000.
The Community Priorities Grant will cover:
- One-time costs to build capacity in fulfilling yourmission
- One-time capital costs such as equipment purchase, facility construction and renovation projects
- One-time operating costs such as funding to launch a pilot project
- Funding for the initial phase of a program that you can demonstrate will be funded in the future from other sources
- Funding to strengthen the governance of your organization.
Eligibility Criteria
- Are you located within the region? The region stretches from the U.S. border north to Arrowwood, and from the B.C. border west to Grassy Lake. You must be located within this region, or carry out programming within this region to be eligible for funding.
- Are you a registered charity with Canada Revenue Agency? The Community Foundation can only grant to federally registered charities or qualified donees with a business number (BN). You can check your organization’s charitable status by visiting the Canada Revenue Agency Website. Please note that this number is different from an Alberta Societies Number. The Community Foundation cannot fund societies unless they are also federally registered.
- Are you applying in partnership? If you do not have a CRA BN, you may still apply for funding through a partnership with another registered charity, municipality or school district.
For more information, visit CFLSA.
For more information, visit https://cflsa.ca/grants/
