Call for Proposals: LGBTQ2 Projects Fund in Canada
Deadline: 30-Jun-22
Applications are now open for the LGBTQ2 Projects Fund to protect rights and improving equality for LGBTQ2 communities, stigma and discrimination persist, and drive long-standing and ongoing inequities between LGBTQ2 and non-LGBTQ2 people in Canada in a broad range of areas.
Objective: The objective of this call for proposals is to support community-informed projects that will address key issues facing LGBTQ2 communities.
Priorities
address barriers to equality for underrepresented LGBTQ2 people. This includes LGBTQ2 people who are Indigenous, Black and racialized, seniors, youth, low income, live with a disability, or are members of an official language minority community. It also includes those who live in a rural, remote and/or northern community.
address any other gap, such as geography, as deemed by the Department
Key action areas
Projects must support actions in one or more of the following areas:
Policies and practices
Knowledge, tools, and support
Norms, attitudes, and behaviours
Authority, voice, and decision-making
Increasing impact through cross-sector collaboration
Funding Information & Duration
For these projects, the maximum amounts (total per project) are:
Up to $200,000 in total for projects with a local reach. Project activities cover at least one community, such as a town, city, or regional municipality.
Up to $400,000 in total for projects with a regional, provincial or territorial reach. Project activities cover parts of a province or territory, an entire province or territory, or a few adjacent provinces or territories. Projects that cover one of Canada’s three largest municipalities would qualify as regional: Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal and Greater Vancouver area.
Up to $600,000 in total for projects with a pan-Canadian reach. Project activities must have impact in at least four WAGE regions and be carried out in both official languages (both official languages not required for Indigenous organizations).
Projects should aim to start no earlier than late fall 2022 and must end by March 31, 2024.
Eligible Projects
Examples of eligible project activities include
Change legislation, policies and practices that discriminate against LGBTQ2 people.
Work with professionals and service-providers to identify and remove barriers for LGBTQ2 clients. For example:
make changes so it is easier to access services
find ways to better work with LGBTQ2 clients and meet their needs
provide education opportunities to change negative assumptions and attitudes about LGBTQ2 clients
Reduce the negative impact on LGBTQ2 clients from discriminatory and harmful practices, like conversion therapy. Work with faith leaders to end anti-LGBTQ2 discrimination and harmful practices.
Plan and use community-based approaches to remove intersectional barriers to equality for LGBTQ2 communities. This includes LGBTQ2 people who are Indigenous, Black, racialized, seniors, youth, low income, who live with a disability or are members of an official language minority community. It also includes those who live in rural, remote and northern communities.
For example, projects can deal with:
anti-racism in LGBTQ2 communities
anti-LGBTQ2 discrimination in different cultural or geographic communities
a specific need or inequality faced by an intersectional LGBTQ2 community.
Find ways to increase LGBTQ2 representation in political, civic, public and private sectors
Plan and test tools and workshops used:
by LGBTQ2 people to learn about and access spaces or services (for example, how-to guides and interactive tools)
by LGBTQ2 people to help navigate systems (for example, seeking health care or employment)
by non-LGBTQ2 people to remove barriers for LGBTQ2 people.
Improve reconciliation and distinction-based approaches for Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ2 people.
Collaborate with other existing groups or equality-seeking organizations to extend the reach or impact of a project (Note: this does not include establishing new formalized networks of LGBTQ2 organizations e.g., “The national LGBTQ2 Career Counsellor Network” as this would be considered capacity building.)
Adapt a successful project used by another organization, community, province, territory or country. The project must include at least one activity
Eligibility Criteria
All applicants must be legally constituted not-for-profit Canadian organizations that work primarily or entirely with LGBTQ2 communities.
To show this you must provide your mandate and describe your organization’s experience.
For more information, visit https://women-gender-equality.canada.ca/en/funding/funding-programs/lgbtq2-projects-fund-call-for-proposals/about.html