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Canada Service Corps – Micro-grants Stream:

December 19, 2023

Value

Up to $3,000,000 per fiscal year

Description

CSC Micro-grants Stream provides funding to youth-serving organizations to deliver supports by redistributing one-time cash payments to youth participants across Canada. Projects will help youth participants carry out youth-led community service projects and enable them to develop skills such as leadership, planning and budgeting. CSC also provides funding to youth-serving organizations to develop and deliver volunteer service placements under the Service Placements Regional Stream and the Service Placements National Stream.

Eligible Applicants

To be an eligible applicant, your organization must belong to one of the following categories:

  • Not for profit organizations
  • For profit organizations, if the nature and intent of the activity is:
    • Non-commercial
    • Not intended to generate profit
    • Supports program priorities and objectives
  • Research organizations and institutes
  • Indigenous organizations or governments
  • Municipal, provincial, and territorial* entities, which includes:
    • Institutions
    • Agencies and Crown Corporations
    • Public health
    • Educational institutions (universities, colleges, CÉGEPs, school boards/school districts)

*Provincially/territorially funded institutions are eligible with the consent of the provincial/territorial government.

To be eligible, participants must be:

  • Canadian citizens, permanent residents or persons who received refugee status in Canada
  • at least 15 years of age and no older than 30 years of age at the time their micro-grant project begins

Note: projects must target at least 50% of total participants to be Indigenous youth, under-served youth, or both

 

Eligible Expenses

Eligible costs include:

  • overhead costs, normally up to 10%, including costs related to central administrative functions of the recipient organization that are drawn upon to support agreement activities (such as shared postage, telephones, information technology maintenance, and head office support)
  • data collection and reporting (including tools such as software programs, outside of administrative costs, that are used to collect data)
  • costs of materials and supplies
  • wages and mandatory employment-related costs (MERCs)
  • training and professional development costs for project staff
  • honoraria (program participants aren’t eligible)
  • printing and communication costs
  • professional fees, such as consultant, technical expertise, or facilitation
  • domestic travel costs, not exceeding rates and allowances in the National Joint Council travel directives
  • participant costs and supports such as:
    • living expenses
    • equipment or services that enable virtual service opportunities
    • mentorship
    • dependent care
    • transportation
    • accommodation
    • meals
    • mental health supports
    • career development supports
    • specialized services or referrals to appropriate resources
    • arrangements or equipment for persons with disabilities
  • recognition or completion certificates and other non-financial incentives to encourage youth to participate and successfully complete their micro-grant projects

Deadline Date

October 12, 2023 to December 19, 2023 at 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Contact

Contact Name: Canada Service Corps – Micro-grants Stream

E-mail Address: NC-DGOP-POB-CSC-SJC-GD@servicecanada.gc.ca

Website: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/funding/csc-micro-grants.html

Industry:

Indigenous, Municipalities, Non-Profit, University Partnerships

Location:

Alberta, British Colombia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NWT, Ontario, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, USA, Yukon

Tags:

ABmunis, Education

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