Community Sport for All Initiative Program in Canada
Deadline: 23-Dec-2024
The Community Sport for All Initiative (CSAI), a component of the SSP, seeks to remove barriers and increase sport participation rates for under-represented groups.
Its key objective is to support community sport initiatives for under-represented groups, in particular Black, Indigenous, racialized, 2SLGBTQI+, low-income people, persons with a disability, newcomers and seniors to increase participation and retention in sport.
Sport Canada will prioritize applications with projects focusing on persons with a disability by ensuring at least 20% of the overall CSAI budget is allocated towards activities for this under-represented group.
Duration
- Your project cannot span more than 24 months. If the duration of your project exceeds 12 months, you must then show that there is a need for a multi-year commitment and that you have the capacity to complete the project.
Eligible Projects
- To be eligible for funding from the CSAI component, your project must:
- reach all five regions of Canada (but not specifically each province/territory within the regions); and
- identify the under-represented group(s) which will be the focus of the project, barriers to participation, and evidence of engagement with the population.
Expected Results
- The expected result of this funding is to:
- increase opportunities for Canadians, including identified under-represented groups, to have access to quality sport programming through funded community sport initiatives.
Principles
- When determining which community organization(s) and/or community sport initiatives to support, you must adhere to the following principles:
- Affordable: projects will be delivered with minimal to no cost to participants.
- Results oriented: projects will be delivered in such a way as to increase participation and retention of under-represented communities and, ultimately, drive behavioural change.
- Focused on organized sport: while other activities may be included (such as movement skills development), the primary activity must be organized sport, and must adhere to safe sport practices.
- Green: delivery of the projects should produce minimal or positive environmental impact.
- Accessible: projects must be tailored to the needs of one or more of the under-represented groups but can be open to all and should allow for a wide range of athletic ability.
- Available: projects should seek to be delivered in underserved communities and to achieve regional diversity.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for funding, your organization must:
- be a national-level organization or other organization with the scope and capacity to reach the target under-represented group(s) in multiple jurisdictions, within all five regions of Canada (but not specifically in each province/territory within the regions), that has the ability to deliver quality programs, projects and/or services relevant to the goals of the Canadian Sport Policy.
- All five regions include the following: Atlantic (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick), Central Canada (Quebec and Ontario), Prairies (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta), West (British Columbia), and North (Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut);
- be a federally or provincially incorporated not-for-profit organization; and
- be able to administer and disburse project funding to community organizations to deliver community sport initiatives that contribute to and align with the objectives of the CSAI.
- be a national-level organization or other organization with the scope and capacity to reach the target under-represented group(s) in multiple jurisdictions, within all five regions of Canada (but not specifically in each province/territory within the regions), that has the ability to deliver quality programs, projects and/or services relevant to the goals of the Canadian Sport Policy.
For more information, visit Government of Canada.