Deadline: 14-Nov-22
The Canadian Women & Sport is accepting applications for the Spotlight Grant Program with an aim to shine a light on girls, women and gender-diverse individuals who typically don’t get the access, support, or funding they need to fully participate in sport and physical activity.
Funding Information
- Three levels of funding are available: $5,000, $25,000 and $50,000.
Who is the Spotlight Grant for?
- This grant is for community sport and physical activity organizations who are working to remove barriers and expand opportunities for girls, women, and gender-diverse participants from the following communities:
- 2SLGBTQIA+
- Black
- Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit/Inuk, Métis, Other
- Racialized
- Low-income
- Persons with a disability
- Newcomers (in Canada 5 years or less)
- To be eligible for the Spotlight Grant, a minimum of 80% of participants in the initiative must identify with or belong to the communities listed .
What type of initiatives can be funded?
- The Spotlight Grant aims to fund initiatives that:
- Help keep girls, women, and gender-diverse individuals participating in sport and physical activity.
- Increase the leadership capacity or representation of girls, women, and gender-diverse individuals in sport and physical activity.
- Enhance an organization’s capacity for gender equity and inclusion.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community-serving, non-profit or charity organizations who are led by, or directly serving girls, women and/or gender-diverse individuals from the priority communities listed are encouraged to apply. Organizations must have a business number and an annual operating budget of less than $1 million dollars to be eligible.
- Examples of eligible organizations include:
- Associations
- Charities
- Community organizations
- Provincial sport organizations
- Multi-sport organizations
- National sport organizations
- Non-profits
- Religious organizations
- Sport or physical activity clubs
- To be eligible for the Spotlight Grant, a minimum of 80% of participants in the initiative must identify with or belong to the following communities:
- 2SLGBTQIA+
- Black
- Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit/Inuk, Métis, Other
- Racialized
- Low-income
- Persons with a disability
- Newcomers (residing in Canada 5 years or less)
- All applicants must provide a business number issued by the CRA.
- Grant funding must be spent by March 2023.
- Organizations can submit multiple applications, including separate applications for each tier, however organizations will only be funded once by the Spotlight Grant.
- Eligibility requirements are the same for all funding tiers but the applications are slightly different. While all applicants will need to give information on their initiative’s budget, the $25K and $50K tiers require additional information including:
- Financial documents.
- For $50K applicants, a Letter of Support from a partner organization or community leader who can attest to your organization’s experience delivering safe, quality, inclusive programming for girls, women and/or gender-diverse individuals from the communities you are seeking to serve. Please see the Evaluation Criteria section for more details.
- Canadian Women & Sport may reach out to verify any information provided.
Ineligible
- The following organizations are not eligible for the Spotlight Grant:
- Schools
- Municipalities
- Individual applicants are not eligible for funding for personal use
- Initiatives serving communities outside of Canada
- International organizations.
For more information, visit https://womenandsport.ca/applications-open-spotlight-grant/