Healthy Communities Fund

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1 Healthy Communities Fund Source: Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport Website: Deadline: Intake for the rounds of grants ended in February 2011 Goals of the Healthy Communities Fund: Create a culture of health and well-being; Build healthy communities through coordinated action; Create policies and programs that make it easier for Ontarians to be healthy; and Enhance the capacity of community leaders to work together on healthy living. Framework, and key priorities and outcomes linked to violence prevention: - substance and alcohol misuse - mental health - physical activity, sport and recreation opportunities See other projects that were granted funds for that addressed substance misuse and mental health: Local/Regional Funding Stream: The local/regional stream of the HCF supports local and regional organizations that are well positioned to identify what programs and approaches will be best suited to their communities. The HCF will help provide the tools and resources that will enable communities to plan and deliver on initiatives that effectively address local needs. Who can apply: Project must be collaborative - where two or more organizations committed to working in partnership to achieve common goals in the community. Eligible organizations include: Incorporated not-for-profit organizations (except provincial sport organizations, multi-sport organizations, public health units, and government agencies) that have operated and been incorporated for at least one year in Ontario. First Nation Communities Aboriginal organizations that are incorporated for at least one year in Ontario Ontario Municipalities Local Service Boards Ontario Colleges and Universities, on condition that the proposed project demonstrates a clear benefit to the community outside of the campus environment. Conservation Authorities Contact information: West Region:

2 Youth Opportunities Program (YOP) Source: Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Website: Deadline: Application information for grants is not available yet About the Grant: The Youth Opportunities Program (YOP) is a new initiative that will fund projects that engage Ontario s immigrant/newcomer youth in their local communities and, in a broader sense, in Canadian society. The objective of the program is to ensure the successful integration of immigrant and newcomer youth by providing them with meaningful opportunities for engagement. Funding for the YOP is targeted to non-profit community organizations seeking to develop strategies that increase the effective engagement of immigrant/newcomer youth. Up to $40,000 is available for each eligible project. YOP Program/Project Priorities: facilitate a stronger connection between immigrant/newcomer youth and their local community, as well as Canadian society; provide opportunities for youth to gain new skills and experience; establish a Youth Advisory Committee and that involve youth in the design, delivery and implementation of activities that engage youth. Participants who will benefit from the projects are immigrant/newcomer youth: Between years of age; and Have left high school and are not currently attending a post-secondary institution

3 Source: Ontario Trillium Foundation Website: Futures Fund 2011 Deadline: March 1, 2011 by 5:00 p.m. E.S.T. Decisions on grants will be made in late June About the grant: Through the Future Fund the Ontario Trillium Foundation will support projects that help young people navigate and shape their economic future. Successful initiatives will achieve all or some of the following goals: Connect youth with employers to explore opportunities to shape workplaces that welcome, and benefit from, the emerging youth culture and workforce. Provide entrepreneurial skills development and support for youth to learn about generating innovative and promising business or social enterprise ideas Incubate and strengthen portable skills, talents, personal interests and attributes of Ontario youth with a link to meaningful economic opportunities that will help build strong communities More details on the fund can be found here: How to Apply: Please contact staff at OTF to discuss your proposal and how to apply before you begin to complete the application. They will advise you on how to proceed to the application phase as well as give you access to pertinent directions for making application. Call ext. 201 to be directed to the appropriate OTF staff or futurefund@trilliumfoundation.org

4 Crime Prevention Action Fund Source: National Crime Prevention Centre, Public Safety Canada Website: Deadline: Currently all invitations to submit are closed. Join the mailing list to be kept up to date on new invitations to submit. Provides time-limited funding to assist communities and organizations in two specific areas: 1. Developing and implementing crime prevention initiatives that address known risk and protective factors associated with offending behaviour. To learn more about these risk factors, see Risk and protective factors. These projects will support evidence-based interventions aimed at reducing offending among at-risk children and youth, and high risk offenders in communities. These projects focus on the delivery of direct interventions. 2. Developing and implementing knowledge transfer initiatives that focus on the application of research-based evidence to inform crime prevention practice. These projects may take the form of tool and resource development, testing and dissemination, conferences, workshops, colloquiums, other training or innovative approaches to the transfer of knowledge about crime prevention. Our priorities are to: address early risk factors among vulnerable children and youth at risk; respond to priority crime issues (e.g. youth gangs, drug-related crime); prevent recidivism among high risk groups; and foster prevention in Aboriginal communities Main Objectives: To support evidence-based models and promising practices which address known risk and protective factors to reduce offending among at-risk children and youth, and high risk offenders in communities To support the dissemination of knowledge and the development of tools and resources related to effective crime prevention projects; and To support innovative projects to explore ways of responding to known risk and protective factors related to offending among at-risk children and youth, and high risk offenders in communities. How to Apply for Funding:

5 Youth Gang Prevention Fund Source: National Crime Prevention Centre/ Public Safety Canada Website: Deadline: For information about the fund and YGPF projects underway across Canada, contact the NCPC National Office at or send an to To be kept informed of news regarding the NCPC Youth Gang Prevention Fund (YGPF) and other crime prevention information, register with the NCPC distribution list. The Youth Gang Prevention Fund (YGPF) invests in communities where youth gangs are an existing or emerging threat and supports initiatives that clearly target youth in gangs or at greatest risk of joining gangs. There is a substantial listing of neighboring municipalities that are taking on gang prevention initiatives including Waterloo, Toronto, Durham, Hamilton, Jane-Finch Community, and Niagara:

6 Status of Women Canada Blueprints Projects Source: Status of Women Canada Website: Deadline: closed for 2011 These projects aim to achieve results in the three priority areas of Status of Women Canada: 1. Eliminating violence against women and girls; 2. Promoting women's access to leadership decision-making roles; and 3. Improving women's economic security and prosperity. Each project falls into one of the following themes: engaging youth in preventing violence against girls and women; increasing women's involvement as decision-makers in community-based organizations; improving access to second-stage services for women who have experienced abuse; improving community safety for women and girls; improving financial and growth opportunities for women business owners; and increasing the recruitment of women into non-traditional work, and retaining and promoting women in non-traditional and under-represented sectors.

7 Source: Status of Women Canada Women s Community Fund Website: Deadline: Starting with the fiscal year, Status of Women Canada will be accepting and reviewing applications to the Women's Community Fund on an ongoing basis, year-round. Status of Women Canada is proud to support projects that bring about equality and the advancement of women in the following three priority areas: 1. Ending violence against women and girls, especially those in remote, Aboriginal, and immigrant communities; 2. Improving women and girls' economic security and prosperity, and; 3. Encouraging women and girls in leadership and decision-making roles.