New Horizons for Seniors Program – Pan-Canadian projects

Activities

Eligible activities increase social inclusion among vulnerable seniors. These could include, but aren’t limited to:

• developing partnerships to encourage new groups of seniors to be more involved in community activities
• adapting policies and tools to better attract, recruit and keep diverse groups of volunteers
• sharing seniors’ knowledge, skills and experiences with others
• promoting awareness of elder abuse
• reaching out to vulnerable seniors such as those who are socially or geographically isolated
• volunteering, mentoring, leadership training and skill matching
• building intergenerational and intercultural learning and relationships
• developing and sharing tools and resource materials
• sharing best practices

What the funding can be used to pay for

Eligible costs

• wages and mandatory employment related costs (MERCs) for project staff
• professional fees, such as:
  • facilitators
  • researchers and experts in evaluation or in the collective impact field
• evaluation costs (such as surveys)
• hospitality
• participant costs (for example, security checks for volunteers)
• printing, advertising, distribution and other communication costs
• travel costs within Canada
• rental and/or maintenance of facilities
• purchase and/or rental of equipment, materials and supplies
• shipping costs for equipment, materials or supplies
• other costs necessary to support the purpose of the funding as approved by ESDC