Deadline: 22-Mar-22
The Government of Canada has announced Grants for Service Placements National stream, to promote civic engagement among young people from 15 to 30 years old through access to meaningful volunteer service placements that help them gain essential life skills and experience.
It encourages youth between 15 and 30 years of age, to give back to their community through meaningful service, with unique opportunities to:
- practice leadership
- learn new skills
- grow personal and professional networks
- gain valuable life experience.
Objectives
- This stream provides funding to organizations to establish projects that deliver volunteer service placements across Canada, so that youth can gain valuable skills and experiences, contribute to communities, and promote civic engagement and inclusion.
- The objective of this stream is to fund high-capacity organizations with a national reach that also have prior experience working with youth, including youth from Indigenous and under-served populations.
Themes
Projects should focus on at least one of the following service themes:
- Reconciliation
- Building an inclusive Canada
- Preserving the environment
- Promoting civic and democratic engagement
- Strengthening youth resilience
- Potential new themes that are youth-identified
Funding Information
- The government will invest up to $25,300,000 in fiscal year 2022-23
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible recipients are:
- Not-for-profit organizations
- For-profit organizations (provided that the nature and intent of the activity is non-commercial, not intended to generate profit, and supports program priorities and objectives)
- Research organizations and institutes
- Indigenous organizations (including band councils, tribal councils and self-government entities)
- Municipal, Provincial and Territorial entities, which includes institutions, agencies and Crown Corporations, Public health and educational institutions (i.e., universities, colleges, CÉGEPs, school boards/school districts)
Eligible participants
In order to be an “eligible participant,” an individual must be:
- A Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or has been granted refugee status in Canada
- At least 15 years of age upon starting participation in the program and no older than 30 years of age at time of application.
Eligible applicants must:
- Have recent experience working with or delivering programming to youth (aged 15 to 30) in a volunteer or service environment
- Have recent experience working with or delivering programming to Indigenous and under-served populations.
For more information, visit Government of Canada.
For more information, visit https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/funding/national-service-placements-youth-organizations.html