Community Investment Operating Grant | City of Edmonton:

Your organization’s primary mandate must fall under one of the following:

• Social Services – social programs and activities that help Edmontonians to strengthen personal or community life.
• Recreation/Amateur Sport – those activities and experiences in which individuals choose to participate in their leisure time, such as: athletic, physical, historical, cultural, social and intellectual activities.

Your organization must also:

• Be a not-for-profit organization registered for at least a year.
• Have the majority of its participants living in Edmonton.
• Provide direct ongoing programs and services that improve quality of life primarily for Edmontonians.
• Accomplish an adequate level of activity to merit a grant.
• Address the CIOG priorities and guidelines through their programs and services.
• Have open membership except for valid program factors (for example – age).
• Use the grant to further the applicant’s mandate as outlined in its constitutional documents.
• Demonstrate sound board and financial governance practices. Examples of unsound governance practices could include having a board member also in a paid staff role within the organization, lack of financial controls/review.
• Demonstrate initiative and success in generating diverse sources of funding.
• Submit application and required documents by the deadline.
• Have year-end financial statements that follow generally accepted accounting principles for not-for-profit organizations.