Deadline: 18-Jan-23
The Public Health Agency of Canada is accepting applications for its Healthy Canadians and Communities Fund.
The aim to prevent chronic disease, including:
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular disease.
Factors
- These chronic diseases have common behavioural risk factors, including:
- Tobacco use
- Unhealthy eating
- Physical inactivity
- They fund interventions in the area of primary prevention. This means projects need to address these risk factors.
Priorities
- They also focus on priority populations who face health inequalities and are at greater risk of developing chronic disease. We identify these populations using research, evidence and consultations in the areas of health equity and chronic disease prevention.
- The priority populations for our program are:
- Indigenous Peoples
- Newcomers to Canada
- People with disabilities
- 2SLGBTQIA+ communities
- People living on low incomes
- Racialized communities (such as Black and South Asian)
- Their program encourages all sectors of society to participate in supporting healthy living among people living in Canada.
Objectives
- The objectives of the Healthy Canadians and Communities Fund are to:
- Invest in interventions that address health inequalities
- Encourage multi-sectoral participation in chronic disease prevention
- Uncover new ways to address the risk factors for chronic disease.
Funding Information
- The total funding amount you can request for your project under the implement phase must be between $200,000 and $3,000,000.
- Your project must be between 2 and 4 years.
Activities
- Types of activities that are eligible for funding can include:
- Engaging priority population(s) to confirm that your intervention design aligns with their needs
- Strengthening stakeholder relationships for the effective delivery of your intervention
- Delivering your intervention
- Implementation of your intervention must involve input from the priority population(s) and key stakeholders
- Evaluating your intervention to understand if it is achieving the desired impact
- Sharing knowledge about the results and lessons learned from your project.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following Canadian applicants are eligible for funding:
- Private sector organizations
- Unincorporated groups, societies and coalitions
- Not-for-profit voluntary organizations and non-profit corporations
- Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and agencies
- National, provincial, and community-based Indigenous organizations, including band councils
- Organizations and institutions supported by provincial and territorial governments, for example:
- Schools
- Regional health authorities
- Post-secondary institutions
- For private sector organizations that apply, there may be cases when the funding from our program generates a profit, such as:
- In actual funds or dollars
- By increasing the value of the business
- In these cases, the benefits from the funding must accrue broadly rather than to your organization.
For more information, visit Government of Canada.