Deadline: 18-Feb-22
The Prince Edward Island (PEI) Alliance for Mental Well-Being is seeking applications for its Innovation Grants Program.
Objectives
- Strengthen and enhance the factors that build individual, family and community resilience.
- Generate and amplify cross-sector and cross-PEI initiatives to align and integrate preventative approaches.
- Support capacity-building and raise awareness of the connection between resilience and mental well-being, based on knowledge.
- Support efforts to assess, learn, evaluate and share resilience-building best practices and their impact on PEI and in other jurisdictions.
Focus Areas
- Supporting responsive relationships
- Strengthening core life skills
- Reducing sources of toxic stress and its harmful buildup
Funding Information
- PEI organizations can apply for Innovation Grants that provide up to $50,000 in one-time funding to develop and assess new approaches or new ideas that build resilience and improve mental well-being throughout the lifespan of all generations of islanders.
- Up to $500,000 total is available in 2021-2022 for this funding stream.
Eligible Expenses
- Training and professional development
- Holding meetings and events, including facility rentals and remote meeting costs
- Transportation
- 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
- Organizations in all regions of PEI from across all sectors, including:
- Local and regional not-for-profit, community and charitable organizations
- Indigenous organizations and communities
- Partners working with any of the above, including, but not limited to, businesses, municipalities, schools, and post-secondary organizations
For more information, visit PEI Alliance for Mental Well-Being.
For more information, visit https://allianceformentalwellbeing.com/grants/