Community foundations' core business centres around providing grants, building funds and demonstrating community leadership, all in support of building strong, healthy and vibrant communities. In this factsheet, we’ll explore how these roles can be utilized in welcoming Ukrainian newcomers into our community.
What is Trust-Based Philanthropy? An approach to giving that addresses the inherent power imbalances between funders, nonprofits and the communities they serve.
Financial help is certainly critical to a nonprofit’s success. However, when a foundation opts to give more than money, both the foundation and grantee benefit. Grantees can gain immeasurable assistance from a foundation’s local knowledge, governance best practices, and funding network. At the same time, foundations leverage their funds, augmenting their impact.
Part Four: Engaging the community and building an integrated public image plan. Fund Development is a team sport and includes all member’s participation in creating and implementing. But what does that look like? This 4 part series will explore the essential components of fund development strategies including building a plan that is aligned, effective and…
Applicant guide for the Healthy Communities Initiative that supports communities as they create and adapt public spaces, and programming and services for public spaces to respond to ongoing needs arising from COVID-19 over the next two years. This will fund small-scale infrastructure projects to create safer, more vibrant and inclusive communities.
This document outlines the eligibility criteria for projects applied to the Canada's Healthy Communities Initiative.
This PDF is intended for informational purposes only to help you plan your application for Canada's Healthy Communities Initiative. This document cannot be submitted as your application. All applications must be submitted via the Healthy Communities Initiative online platform. If you require a PDF for accessibility reasons please reach out to chci@communityfoundations.ca.
Document provided from Canada's Healthy Communities Initiative on how to lead an equitable adjudication process.
Budget template for Canada's Healthy Communities Initiative.
Developing trusting and collaborative relationships can yield many benefits – but it does take time. In the spirit of collaboration and learning, this toolkit has been developed for the purpose of sharing the work and learning by Green Shield Canada and five Community Foundations across Canada (Victoria, Calgary, Windsor Essex, Hamilton, and Nova Scotia).