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Applications open for Women & Girls Fund Program in Canada

Applications open for Women & Girls Fund Program in Canada

Deadline: 31-Jan-2025

Applications are now open for the Women & Girls Fund Program to support organizations at the heart the women’s movement, whose core activities, leadership, mission and vision are committed to advancing gender equity.

Priorities
  • The proposed funding will support your organization’s ability to provide programs, services and/or advocacy initiatives, either directly through funding program or service costs or indirectly through funding core operational costs, that align with one or more of the Foundation’s funding priorities:
    • provide opportunities to address basic needs or develop economic self-sufficiency for women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals,
    • strengthen and/or provide health and safety programs for women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals
    • promote the education of women, girls and gender-diverse individuals, and/or
    • invest in systems and sustainable change efforts in diversity, equity and inclusion.
Funding Information
  • Contributing $5000 annually
What they fund?
  • Innovative new projects
  • Short term projects
  • Seed funding for long term projects
  • Focus on vibrant, healthy, caring community through supporting, advocating, or addressing needs of women and girls
Eligibility Criteria
  • Applicants must be operating in and/or serving the Central Alberta region
  • Applicants must be incorporated non-profit organizations and have a valid charitable number from Canada Revenue Agency or be a First Nations Band or municipality designated as a qualified donee by Canada Revenue Agency. If your organization does not have charitable status or is not a qualified donee, they can consider an application in partnership with another organization that is a registered charity or qualified donee with a mandate relevant to your proposal.
  • Gender-based programming, services, and/or advocacy are central to your project’s mission, and you have experience offering gender-based programs, services, and/or advocacy initiatives with/for women, girls, Two Spirit, trans, and non-binary people who face multiple barriers and are underserved, including:
    • First Nations, Métis, and Inuit
    • Black
    • 2SLGBTQI+
    • Living with disabilities
    • Living in rural or remote communities
    • Racialized, Refugee, immigrant, or non-status
    • Living on low incomes
    • Older/Seniors
    • Young
Ineligibility Criteria
  • What they normally do not fund?
    • Ongoing core administrative expenses
    • Partisan political or singular direct religious activities
    • Building an endowment, fundraising expenses
    • Debt reduction or emergency funding

For more information, visit Red Deer & District Community Foundation.

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