Grant Details

Eligibility Details

• Not-for-profit Canadian organizations, excluding labor unions, post-secondary educational institutions and religious institutions;
• For-profit Canadian organizations, if the nature and intent of the funded activity is non-commercial and not intended to generate profit;
• Aboriginal governments (including band councils, tribal councils and self-government entities) and their agencies in rural and remote areas where there is a lack of capacity among not-for-profit and for-profit organizations; and
• Territorial governments (local, regional, territorial) and their agencies in the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Deadline Details

There is no deadline date; applications are accepted throughout the year.

Award Details

Funding for the project shall not exceed 100% of eligible expenditures. This includes federal, provincial, territorial and municipal assistance for the same purpose. 

Eligible expenditures are those considered necessary to support the purpose of the project and are costs incurred after the signature of the agreement. There are two types of eligible expenditures:

• direct delivery expenditures: expenses related to the implementation of the project and easily traced to specific activities
• administrative expenditures: expenses related to an organizations ability to administer and support project activities, in other words, these expenditures are a necessary part of an organization's operations as part of the delivery of a project

If organizations list direct delivery expenditures under administrative expenditures, or vice versa, the amounts requested under both types could automatically be cut. Therefore, ensure that descriptions are clear and detailed enough to avoid confusion.

The Department reserves the right to make the final determination on the value of funding and to exclude expenditures that are ineligible, unnecessary or outside the scope of the project.