Deadline: 1-Feb-22
The Saskatoon Community Foundation (SCF) is pleased to launch a funding call for the Quality of Life Grants Program to support projects which touch on its traditional areas of focus:
- Arts and Culture,
- Education,
- Environment,
- Health,
- Social Development, and
- Capacity Building.
However, projects should now be presented in terms of their impact on Belonging.
Focus Areas
Everyone deserves to be part of a community where they feel they belong. Saskatoon Community Foundation supports projects which seek to support, enhance and increase a strong sense of belonging in the community. Registered charities are encouraged to submit requests for support of projects fostering Belonging in Saskatoon in three main areas of focus:
- Reconciliation: Does your project address directly or indirectly any of the 94 Calls to Action identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission? Does your project reflect an awareness of issues affecting relationships among indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians?
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: Does your project improve inclusiveness among diverse cultures or demographic groups? Does it seek to improve equity for a particular segment of the community, or improve the community’s understanding of issues around equity? Does it promote cross-cultural tolerance or understanding? Does it value and celebrate the diversity?
- Youth Engagement: How does your project or program engage youth to be included more effectively in Saskatoon’s community life?
Funding Information
Make grants up to a maximum size of $20,000.00.
Preference
Preference will be given to projects that:
- Have a direct and meaningful impact on a significant number of people
- Are respectful of program users, and may involve them in planning, execution and evaluation
- Involve community partnerships
- Mobilize financial resources by utilizing such funding strategies as leveraging and partnering
- Avoid duplicating similar services
- Set measurable objectives, which will be evaluated
- Plan for future funding needs
Criteria
SCF’s Quality of Life Grants Program will:
- Consider requests for multi-year funding;
- Consider requests for new and innovative programs;
- Consider requests for ongoing core programs;
- Consider requests for operating funds in cases of emergent need where an applicant has a plan for sustainability;
- Consider requests for capital campaigns in selected cases;
- Make grants of varying sizes with careful consideration of the impact of the amount awarded;
- Involve a Grants Committee comprised of a diversity of community volunteers (Board and non-Board members) in the grant application review process;
- Rarely provide funding to the same qualified donee for longer than three years in succession.
For more information, visit https://saskatooncommunityfoundation.ca/grants/quality-of-life-grants-for-covid-19-resilience/