Deadline: 4-Apr-22
The City of Kamloops is seeking applications for the Reaching Home (RH): Canada’s Homelessness Strategy Grant Program, a community-based program aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness.
It will provide direct funding to urban Designated Communities (DC), Indigenous (Indigenous Homelessness), rural, and remote communities to help them address their local homelessness needs. Funded by the Government of Canada’s Reaching Home: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy.
The Government of Canada has established a contract with the City of Kamloops, to act or serve as the Community Entity (CE) for the Designated Communities funding stream. The CE administers and manages the federal Reaching Home funds based upon the recommendations made through an independent Community Advisory Committee (CAB). The CAB is made up of many community partners and their goal is to ensure Reaching Home funding is allocated where it is needed most.
New Flexibilities in the COVID-19 Context
To enable timely and effective community responses to COVID-19 outbreak, the following flexibilities are being introduced under this directive:
- Eligible activities and expenses: To support communities in developing and implementing effective COVID-19 responses, modifications have been made to the directives concerning the provision of basic needs services and health and medical services.
- Community contributions: To meet the community contribution requirement, Designated Communities stream recipients must normally identify a minimum of $1 for every dollar of the Reaching Home allocation to the Designated Community. This requirement is being waived for funds received as part of the Government of Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan. All recipients are still encouraged to continue to seek other sources of funding to support their efforts COVID-19 responses.
- Geographic restrictions: Given the transient nature of the homeless population, and to prevent transmission between nearby communities, Designated Communities and Indigenous Homelessness stream recipients may now fund sub-projects that are located outside of their traditional service boundaries. Investments under the Indigenous Homelessness stream are still intended to meet the specific needs of the off-reserve Indigenous population.
- To support a coordinated response, recipients of funding under these streams are encouraged to engage with those responsible for funding provided under the Rural and Remote Homelessness stream.
Eligible Applicants
The following groups and projects are eligible to apply for RH DC BASE funding:
- Not-for-profit organizations;
- For-profit organizations;
- Municipalities;
- Indigenous organizations (Indigenous organizations may include, but are not limited to, incorporated for-profit and not-for-profit Indigenous controlled organizations, Indigenous controlled unincorporated associations, Indian Act Bands, Tribal Councils and Indigenous self-government entities); and
- Public health and educational institutions.
Note: For-profit organizations may be eligible for funding provided that the nature and intent of the activity is non-commercial; not intended to generate profit; based on fair market value; in support of program priorities and objectives; and in line with the community plan.
For more information, visit City of Kamloops.
For more information, visit https://www.kamloops.ca/our-community/grants-funding