Deadline: 15-Oct-22
Shell Canada is offering grants to community projects and initiatives that are located near the facilities and exploration interests throughout Canada.
Shell Canada aims to be a good neighbour wherever they work and live, by contributing to the well-being of local communities throughout Canada. Shell provides support in a variety of forms including funding to not for profit and local community organizations, donations to charitable organizations and grants to employees, retirees and retailer/agents giving back to their communities.
Social Investment Themes
- Education
- Adult Learning
- Kindergarten – Grade 12 (Early Learning, High School Completion, STEM and Cultural Retention)
- Community Skills & Enterprise Development
- Skills/Vocational Training/Leadership Development
- Small and medium enterprise development
- Safety
- Driver behavior
- Emergency response
- Pedestrian safety
- Environment
- Biodiversity/Conservation efforts
- Improve local environment
- Water programs or initiatives
- Health
- Access to and quality of health care
- Provision of equipment
- Prevention of illness
- Access to Energy
- Support of energy services
- Access to energy products
- Community Development
- Traditional livelihood and cultural retention
- Indigenous inequity / MMIWG
- Community capacity building
Ineligible Projects
Shell’s social investment program does not fund the following:
- Individuals or individual pursuits
- Golf tournaments, hockey tournaments, tennis, fishing or other sporting tournaments
- Sports – professional, recreational or minor sports teams
- For-profit organizations
- Trips, tours, and travel expenses
- Third party fundraiser or fundraising events
- Conferences, forums, trade shows, conventions, seminars (unless industry-related)
- Religious causes that do not serve the general public on a non-denominational basis
- Advertising, film, video, television and book productions
- Private foundations
- Fraternal and labour organizations/service clubs
- Private (fee-based) elementary or secondary schools
- Political parties or lobby groups
- Projects where benefits occur outside Canada
For more information, visit https://www.shell.ca/en_ca/sustainability/communities/funding-guidelines-process.html