Grants and Contributions

This project aims to empower at-risk youth to lead disaster preparedness and response engagements. It aims to ensure that they can lead peaceful lives while strengthening leadership within their communities. The project seeks to achieve this by training at-risk youth in emergency response skills and facilitating their involvement in community outreach and engagement activities. Project activities include: (1) training 40 Youth Emergency Action Committee (YEAC) volunteers to become peer responders; (2) equipping 80 at-risk youths with enhanced emergency response skills through a certified training program; and (3) encouraging collaboration between the 40 YEAC volunteers and 80 at-risk youths on 3 community service and outreach activities, providing at-risk youths an opportunity to give back to the community.

This project is part of the Local Engagement and Action Fund (LEAF), which supports civil society and local organizations across the Caribbean. The Fund aids them in implementing initiatives that respond to local needs and advance the aims and strategic objectives of Canada’s Caribbean Regional Development Program.

This Project supports the Canadian community’s efforts to attract, retain and expand foreign direct investment (FDI) and is ultimately designed to strengthen the economy at the community level.

The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) primary mandate is to oversee the coordination of international humanitarian responses, in partnership with national and international actors, to achieve more coherent and effective humanitarian action. This grant represents Canada’s support to the UN Country-Based Pooled Funds managed by OCHA in various countries, including Ukraine.

With the support of Canada and other donors, OCHA fulfills its mandate through activities that include: (1) strengthening humanitarian leadership; (2) establishing and overseeing coordination systems; (3) monitoring and reporting on humanitarian situations; (4) advocating on behalf of affected people; (5) supporting the assessment and prioritization of humanitarian needs and strategic planning; (6) promoting emergency preparedness; and (7) mobilizing funding for humanitarian assistance.

To address systemic racism and discrimination in Canada’s health systems by striving to ensure high quality health services are efficient and accessible, and by reducing health inequalities.

To support the federal government’s commitment to maintain a strong and effective publicly funded health care system through investments in emerging and demonstrated innovations in priority areas, such as palliative and end-of-life care, home and community care, mental health care and other federal, provincial-territorial and emerging priorities.

Grant as part of the Participant Funding Program to Lac Seul First Nation to assist in preparing for and engaging in Indigenous consultation activities and public participation opportunities associated with the assessment process for the Great Bear Gold Project.

The purpose is to continue to advance oil spill research in Canada to enhance Canada's level of preparedness and response by leveraging new collaborative research with some of the world's best researchers, both domestically and internationally.

This grant supports youth programming at Lloyd S Elementary School that involves the teaching, learning and recording of two traditional songs to be integrated in a permanent soundscape installation at Rouge National Urban Park.

This contribution supports Qalipu First Nation in determining the feasibility of establishing a National Marine Conservation Area in the South Coast Fjords Area and of redesignating Sandbanks Provincial Park as a National Park in Southwestern Newfoundland.

This grant supports Pauquachin First Nation’s participation in Visioning Session II hosted by Malahat First Nation on January 26 and 27, 2024. Visioning Session II will bring together 11 Nations already participating in the Indigenous Management Board (IMB) in the vicinity of Gulf Islands National Park Reserve (GINPR) to work toward comanagement in GINPR.