Deadline: 24-Aug-22
Looking for new ways to meaningfully support families? Are you a grassroots group led by parents, guardians, and caregivers? If yes, then apply for a Family Innovations Test grant for a project designed to support other parents, guardians, and caregivers in your community in one of three areas:
- Research a new concept or issue
- Strategize around issue(s) affecting people you want to support
- Test a new project idea
Funding Information
- Maximum $85,000
- Minimum 1 year, Maximum 3 years
Outcomes
- Creating safe spaces for Indigenous and/or Black parents, guardians, and caregivers to strengthen relationships, build strong community and cultural connections, and heal from trauma
- Supporting parents, guardians, and caregivers to navigate and access resources for economic stability
- Supporting parents, guardians and caregivers to effectively navigate, access, and influence systems that affect family well-being
Eligibility Criteria
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Beneficiaries:
- Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit) parents, guardians, and caregivers
- Black parents, guardians, and caregivers
- Racialized parents, guardians, and caregivers
- Newcomer parents, guardians, and caregivers
- Francophone parents, guardians, and caregivers
- Parents, guardians, and caregivers and/or their children who are two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (2SLGBTQ+)
- Parents, guardians, and caregivers and/or their children living with disabilities or special needs
- Parents, guardians, and caregivers living in rural, remote and/or Northern communities
- Parents, guardians, and caregivers and/or their children in conflict or at risk of being in conflict with the law
- Parents, guardians, and caregivers at risk of contact or in contact with child welfare services
- Parents, guardians, and caregivers in low income situations
- Parents, guardians and caregivers who are homeless or at risk of being homeless
- Parents, guardians, and caregivers whose children are at-risk of dropping out or have dropped out of school
- YOF supports projects led by parents, guardians, and caregivers who share identities, experiences, and face the same systemic barriers as those who will benefit from the project.
- Is led by parents, guardians, and caregivers who share identities and experiences with those they will engage in project activities
- Has three or more core group members
- Exists independent of a larger organization
- Is based in Ontario, and programming benefits parents, guardians and caregivers living in Ontario
- Core team members have a history and experience doing work together. This experience can included delivering core program model or other activities.
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Is an:
- Unincorporated group or
- Incorporated not-for-profit with independently managed revenues no higher than $50,000 in either of the last two years. Board members and day-to-day management must also meet the by and for requirements, and identify with parents, guardians and caregivers
- Agrees to work with an Organizational Mentor (OM)
Ineligible
- Groups specifically designed to serve parents, guardians, and caregivers through committees or clubs of institutions, including municipalities, universities, schools, and hospitals
- Groups looking to design programming for children
- Groups/projects based at an existing organization (not-for-profit or for profit)
- Groups with charitable status
- For-profit businesses
- Individuals
For more information, visit Ontario Trillium Foundation.
For more information, visit https://otf.ca/our-grants/youth-opportunities-fund/family-innovations-test-grant
