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.