Deadline: 10-Feb-23
The London Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Community Vitality Grant Program to support innovative projects seeking to improve the quality of life.
Issue Areas
- The proposal must primarily address one of the seven issue areas:
- Education
- Gender Equality
- Racial Equality
- Food Security
- Housing
- Well-Being
- Environment (new in 2022)
- In keeping with their ongoing commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this year’s report added a key issue area, the environment, drawing attention to climate change, clean water, and greenhouse gas emissions.
- Proposals for arts-based projects are encouraged consisting of innovation and impact beyond the art discipline and/or arts organization itself.
Funding Information
- Applicants are welcome to request a grant of any amount between $50,000 minimum and $350,000 maximum. This is a general guideline and does not preclude consideration of proposals requesting more than the maximum.
- LCF prefers not to be the only monetary funder. The Foundation can be the first, second or last source of funding for a proposal; order is not important. There is no matching formula requirement; only an intent to leverage requirement.
- Disbursement may be requested over one, two, or three years
Geographical Focus
- The proposal must have a priority impact on some, or all, of LCF’s catchment area which includes:
- City of London
- County of Middlesex
- Oneida Nation of the Thames
- Chippewas of the Thames First Nation; and
- Munsee-Delaware Nation.
- Projects that impact areas outside of LCF’s catchment are eligible as long as the Community Vitality grant is fully used within LCF’s catchment.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Community Vitality project will support projects led by qualified donees, or organizations partnered with qualified donees.
- Qualified donees are specific kinds of organizations registered with the Canada Revenue Agency (registered charities, municipal governments, First Nations, etc.). All other organizations are non-qualified donees.
- For the purposes of this grant program, the qualified donee that is formally applying for funding is considered the applicant organization and responsible for receiving the grant if successful.
- Many groups are not qualified donees. Registered non-profits and other organizations are welcome to apply in cooperation with a qualified donee and for the purposes of this program, are considered a co-applicant.
- A co-applicant may also be a qualified donee closely working with the applicant organization on all activities and deliverables of the proposed project. Co-applicants are not a program requirement.
- Partners are a program requirement and make a contribution to the activities and deliverables of the proposed project.
- Past recipients are eligible to apply with a project distinct from the one for which it received a Community Vitality grant.
- An applicant organization or co-applicant may not include, as part of its senior administration, a London Community Foundation employee and their immediate family.
- Members of the London Community Foundation Grants Committee and Board of Directors are eligible to apply. However, they are recused from reviewing, scoring, and commenting on their own applications. They may not discuss their own application with other committee or board members.
Criteria
Proposals will be evaluated for eligibility according to this criteria:
- Applicant organization is a qualified donee
- Involves individuals, organizations, or partnerships with the capacity to deliver the project;
- Responds an issue area highlighted in current Vital Signs report
- Implemented within and impacts LCF’s catchment area
- Contributes to systems-change and long-term solutions and changes
- Involves collaboration or strategic partnership between multiple individuals or organizations;
- Involves contributions, monetary or other, from other sources
- Is requesting a minimum of $50,000 over a one, two, or three year period
- Funding request consists only of eligible expenditures.
For more information, visit London Community Foundation.