Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$100,000.00
Nov 4, 2019
For-profit organization
Commercial Launch of a Value Planning Software Service
937076
Take the Value Planning™ software service to market from proof-of-concept to a full SaaS offering available to urban planners throughout North America.
$20,000.00
Jul 15, 2019
For-profit organization
The development and testing of the minimum viable product (MVP) for a new sustainability-related service related to urban planning (Value Planning).
931240
CAST is developing software that can efficiently collect, manage, analyze, and share “value planning” project information in an integrated and scalable way. Value planning is an approach to urban planning that provides a data driven basis for development decisions delivering maximum social, financial, and environmental benefits. CAST will achieve this by adapting the existing software platform developed by Emerge (Re-TRAC Connect) to provide the required functionality.
$50,000.00
Oct 1, 2018
For-profit organization
Building new sustainability-related SaaS businesses using the existing information management platform.
912933
A successful business has been built selling subscriptions that allow organizations to efficiently collect and manage solid waste and recycling data using the Re-TRAC Connect software platform. There are, however, many other sustainability-related and socially-oriented industries and sectors that could benefit from a web-based service that can improve the efficiency of how information is collected and managed. Our goal is to identify and target opportunities in these other sectors and build viable businesses by adapting the software to address their needs.