Focusing Action for Positive Change Grant Program in Canada

Deadline: 3-Feb-23

The PEI Alliance for Mental Well-Being is offering funding through its Focusing Action for Positive Change Grant Program to support projects and initiatives that focus on building and strengthening the resilience of individuals, families, and communities to help improve mental well-being outcomes for all Islanders.

The “Focusing Action for Positive Change” Grant Program works to enhance existing initiatives and create innovative solutions.

Objectives

The program has four major objectives that align with the mandate of the Alliance.

• To strengthen and enhance the factors that build individual, family or community resilience.
• To generate and amplify cross-sector and cross-PEI initiatives to align and integrate preventative approaches.
• To support capacity-building and raise awareness of the connection between resilience and mental well-being, based on science.
• To support efforts to assess, learn, evaluate and share resilience-building best practices and their impact on PEI.

Funding Streams

• Enhanced Support Grants
  • Offered in the Winter Cycle, Enhanced Support Grants enhance existing programs, policies, and initiatives. Funds can also be used to deepen knowledge and understanding through professional development, training, and building communities of practice.
  • PEI organizations can apply for up to $300,000 (to be paid out over three years) to enhance
    existing programs, policies, and initiatives to build resilience and improve mental well-being
    across the life span and across generations.

Grant Action Areas

All funded projects must focus on one or more of the evidence-based factors that can strengthen resilience and mental well-being.

• Supporting responsive relationships.
• Strengthening core life skills.
• Reducing adversity.

What are eligible expenses?

Grant funds may be used to cover the following eligible expenses:

• Training and professional development.
• Convening meetings and events, including facility rentals and remote meeting costs.
• Transportation within PEI.
• Research, evaluation, and dissemination activities.
• Wages and fees (e.g., consultants, trainers, expertise not available in the community, honoraria)
• Promotional and marketing activities directly related to the project.
• Reasonable overhead, capital, infrastructure costs directly related to the project to a maximum of 10% of the total grant.
• Costs associated with the grant’s financial reporting requirements.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicant Organizations must be PEI-based non-profit or charitable organizations (including those defined by Canada Revenue Agency as Qualified Donees). Applicant Organizations can be based in any region of the province and their work may fall within any scope represented by the non-profit/charitable sector. Applicant Organizations may submit an application in partnership with other organizations, groups or individuals. The nature of the partnership must be well defined/substantiated within the application.
• Partner organizations may include, but are not limited to other not-for-profit entities, businesses, publicly funded entities such as municipalities, schools, and post-secondary institutions, federal programming, and health units, etc. Organizations operating in other jurisdictions within Canada are eligible to be Partner Organizations.

For more information, visit PEI Alliance for Mental Well-Being.