Deadline: 15-Apr-21
Community Foundation Grey Bruce has announced 2021 Spring Community Grant program for registered charities or qualified donees within Grey or Bruce County.
Categories
Applicant’s project must benefit local communities in one of the following categories:
- Arts and Culture
- Recreation
- The wellbeing of Children youth
- Reduction of poverty
- Education
- The environment
- Health and wellness of the people of Grey & Bruce.
Note: Community Foundation Grey Bruce produced it’s first Vital Signs report in 2016, containing data on health & wellness, arts & culture, education and lifelong learning, living standards, the environment, and community connections in Grey Bruce Counties. The statistics gathered in the Vital Signs report are indicative of needs to be addressed in our region. Applicants will be asked to describe how their project addresses one of the indicators of community vitality as outlined in Vital Signs.
Funding Criteria
- Grant applications will be considered for honoraria & speakers at meetings and presentations. Wages and salaries will not be considered.
- Applicant organizations may ask for up to 10% of their project budget for project administration costs. *for 2021 only, applicants may ask for up to 25% of the project budget for project administration costs.
- Applicant organizations may include capacity building and value-added training to a maximum cost of $1,000.
- Small capital grants no more than $1,500 for office equipment etc.
- Funding up to $5,000 may be requested for projects and programs that prove support for disadvantaged children and families; applications for projects that do not support disadvantaged children and families may be submitted for up to $3,000.
- Grants are not usually made to support the normal annual operating costs of organizations or core services that are otherwise directly or indirectly, publicly funded, such as municipalities, hospitals, and school boards. Enhanced services that are not core funded or part of regular operating budget are eligible. Applications of this type must explain clearly why the funding requested from the Community Foundation is not available from government sources. All applications involving activities with primary and secondary schools must be accompanied by a Letter of Permission from the relevant School Board.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must either have a registered charitable number or be sponsored by an organization that is a CRA qualified donee within Grey or Bruce County.
- Nonprofit groups without charitable registration must be sponsored by a qualified donee provided the sponsoring body agrees to accept the grant on behalf of the nonprofit and be jointly accountable with the applicant for the use of the grant with signed legal documentation.
- Charitable organizations applying must have a strong local presence (e.g. a local Board of Directors, a well-defined accountable local committee, a local office with strong community involvement) or must demonstrate that the project/program will specifically benefit residents of Grey and/or Bruce Counties.
Ineligible Applicants
- Applications will not be considered:
- To support ongoing operating costs including wages and salaries
- In response to fundraising campaigns
- To cover deficits
- To retire debts
- To increase endowment funds
- To fund activities that serves primarily the membership or purposes of religious or political organizations
- To individuals
- To fund tours or travel outside Grey or Bruce Counties
- To the same project for more than 3 times
- To organizations that have not completed the terms of any previous grant(s) or have not submitted reports due for those previous grants.
For more information, visit https://www.communityfoundationgreybruce.com/grants/community/