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.
$290,000.00
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For-profit organization
Cloud Native Initative Milestone 1 Containers
986155
Cloud Native technologies empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. The goal for Showbie is to adopt the key pillars of Cloud Native and incorporating these concepts into our culture. We aim to improve on performance and reliability of our features as we implement structures that allow for rapid development, robust testing including security, automated pipeline processes and periodic releases. We will measure success on:
- Platform reliability: systems scaling quicker and increase performance,
- Developer empowerment: more autonomy for developers to control their application’s environment
- Improvement on business gross margin
$125,000.00
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For-profit organization
Scaling an Increasingly Realtime, Responsive, Paperless Classroom Application
904429
Showbie is a classroom application used by over 3 million students, teachers and parents to facilitate school work turn in and formative feedback. Showbie currently has hundreds of thousands of weekly active users, and this user base continues to grow through our high quality Web Application version of Showbie. This project will enable us to provide a reliable, scalable, secure global education solution which has the potential, through our new Web version, to help more learners than ever!