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City of Guelph’s Equity in Action Fund Program in Canada

City of Guelph’s Equity in Action Fund Program in Canada

Deadline: 22-Nov-24

The City of Guelph is pleased to announce the Equity in Action Fund Program to provide financial support to equity-focused initiatives that support the implementation of the ‘We are Community’ theme in the city’s Community Plan and the ‘Supporting Community Well-being’ focus of the city’s Strategic Plan.

The project must reflect and engage communities and/or groups that identify as 2SLGBTQIA+, Black, Indigenous Peoples, People with disabilities, Racialized, and/or Women. This fund is intended to fund new programs and projects (this may include scaling or growing a program to serve new users or participants).

The proposed projects should advance one or more of the ‘we are community’ principles:

  • Understanding community
  • Relationship driven
  • Truth and reconciliation
  • Working across systems
  • Pace and urgency
  • Safe spaces
  • Data and story sovereignty
  • Shared language and understanding
Funding information
  • A total of $120,000 will be awarded through the Equity in Action Fund.
Guiding Principles 
  • The guiding principles outlined below will be used to assess applications.
    • Equity: Using shared understanding and respect to advance equity and minimize barriers to participation. Applicants adopt equity and anti-oppression in their organizational mission, mandate, and/or values. Initiatives are informed by and meet the needs of communities that have experienced oppression systems (i.e. equity-deserving groups).
    • Collaboration: Key individuals and organizations are engaged in meaningful participation where there is collaborative decision-making. People with lived and living experience are represented in the development, delivery, and decision-making to include the voices of the impacted communities.
    • Action: Using data, resources, insights, emerging and promising practices, or cultural knowledge to deliver an initiative. New, bold, and creative approaches and ideas are applied.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Eligible organizations must be:
    • Operating as a not-for-profit organization or charitable organization with a volunteer board of directors
    • Organizations in good standing with the City of Guelph and, if applicable, its own governing bodies. Organizations that are non-partisan
    • Operating in the City of Guelph and providing publicly accessible programs and services that promote diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusivity in the community
    • Organizations that have been in operation for one year or more

For more information, visit City of Guelph.

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