Deadline: 6-Jun-25
The Community Development Grants help organizations who provide programming for kids between the ages of 4-18 in financial need or youth with disabilities between the ages of 4-25.
Funding Streams
- Programming Support
- Provides organizations with support to manage the costs of delivering sport and active recreational programming, including but not limited to:
- Program leaders, instructors, and coaches;
- Facility rentals;
- Equipment needs;
- Transportation needs.
- Provides organizations with support to manage the costs of delivering sport and active recreational programming, including but not limited to:
- Operational Support
- Provides organizations with assistance to build capacity to provide more inclusive, equitable, and safe sport participant experiences, including but not limited to:
- Build staff and/or volunteer experience/expertise through training and education;
- Organization intersectionality approaches to reduce or eliminate systemic barriers to participation (i.e., policies, programs, practices, and spaces).
- Provides organizations with assistance to build capacity to provide more inclusive, equitable, and safe sport participant experiences, including but not limited to:
Funding Information
- Jumpstart anticipates grants could range anywhere between $1,000 to more than $100,000 depending on need and program scope.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organizations
- To be eligible for a Community Development Grant, applicants must be qualified donees.
- Charities
- Registered Canadian charities, registered national arts service organizations and registered Canadian amateur athletic associations
- Canadian amateur athletic associations
- Canadian amateur athletic associations currently registered or revoked
- Registered journalism organizations
- Journalism organizations currently registered or revoked
- Foreign charities that have received a gift from His Majesty in right of Canada
- Foreign charities currently registered, previously registered, or a recipient of a gift before January 1, 2013
- Low-cost housing corporations for the aged
- Low-cost housing corporations currently registered or revoked
- Municipal or public bodies performing a function of government in Canada
- Municipal or public bodies currently registered or revoked
- Charities
- To be eligible for a Community Development Grant, applicants must be qualified donees.
- Eligibility for Operational Support
- Your organization should focus on engaging participants aged 4-18 from families in financial need, or 4-25 years of age for programs primarily serving children and youth with disabilities.
- Eligibility for Programming Support
- Applications must:
- Primarily focus on engaging participants aged 4-18 from families in financial need, or 4-25 years of age for programs primarily serving children and youth with disabilities; and
- Consist of at least five sessions, totaling at least five hours over five separate days, and requiring a child to be registered for the entire duration.
- Applications must:
For more information, visit Jumpstart.
