{"id":29109,"date":"2020-05-21T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T18:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=29109"},"modified":"2021-11-15T11:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T16:59:24","slug":"covid-19-canada-emergency-community-support-fund-applications-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2020\/05\/21\/covid-19-canada-emergency-community-support-fund-applications-open\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Canada Emergency Community Support Fund Applications Open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706\" data-series-id=\"440\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 30 of 45 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/covid-19\/\">COVID-19<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegreen.community\/c\/cccc-covid19-response\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/CoronaVirus-Masthead2-1600-1024x396.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28934\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal government is making $350 million available to community organizations serving vulnerable Canadians. Applications for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/services\/benefits\/emergency-community-support-fund.html\">Emergency Community Support Fund<\/a> opened <strong>May 19<\/strong>.  Access to funding is through three national intermediaries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedway.ca\/updates\/\">United Way Centraide Canada<\/a><ul><li>Applications through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedway.ca\/how-we-help\/ecsf\/\">local offices<\/a><\/li><li>Application guide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwhh.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/UWHH-ECSF-Application-Guide-1.pdf\">here<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityfoundations.ca\/initiatives\/responding-to-covid-19\/\">Community Foundations of Canada<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityfoundations.ca\/covid-19-granting-results-data-the-emergency-community-support-fund-ecsf\/\">Application results<\/a><\/li><li>Application guide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityfoundations.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ECSF-Applicant-Guide-EN-May19.pdf\">here<\/a><\/li><li>List of local offices participating in the review process available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityfoundations.ca\/covid-19-community-foundations-participating-in-the-ecsf\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.ca\/\">Canadian Red Cross<\/a> (application page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.ca\/how-we-help\/current-emergency-responses\/covid-19-%E2%80%93-novel-coronavirus\/information-for-community-organizations-affected-by-covid-19\/granting-program\">here<\/a>; for non-profits only)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applications must be completed by <strong>July 27<\/strong> (for Community Foundations of Canada) or <strong>July 31 <\/strong>(for United Way) for activities occurring between <strong>April 1, 2020 <\/strong>and <strong>March 31, 2021.<\/strong> Applicants may only submit one request per unique emergency project across the funding agencies, but applicants can apply for more than one project. The maximum request per project is $75,000 (no minimum).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What &nbsp;the selection criteria? Funding is only approved if the project:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Addresses a pressing social inclusion or well-being need caused by COVID-19, by supplying necessities of life and supporting activities of daily living, such as:<ul><li>Education materials for children in low-income homes<\/li><li>Mental health supports for people in crisis<\/li><li>Accessibility services to persons with disabilities<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Serves one or more vulnerable populations<\/li><li>Can be carried out in a short timeframe with a reasonable budget and<\/li><li>Can attest to not having secured funds to cover the costs of the program from another intermediary, federal COVID-19 response program or other source<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vulnerable populations includes people such as seniors, persons with disabilities, veterans, newcomers, refugees, women, children and youth, LGBTQ2 people, Indigenous people, racialized people, those experiencing homelessness, those living in remote or rural areas, and people from an official language minority community. For an expanded listing, see the Application Guides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019ve never written a funding proposal before, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/kbm\/Content\/fundraising\/fundraising-strategies\/first-time-proposal-writers-part-1-577987926.htm?tocpath=Fundraising%7CFundraising%20Strategies%7C_____7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Guide for First-Time Proposal Writers (Part 1)<\/a> in CCCC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/kbm\/Content\/bulletin.htm?tocpath=Publications%7C_____1\">April 2020 Bulletin<\/a> for helpful advice and practical tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ministry workers<\/em><em> are invited to share how they are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic within their organization in our online community forum&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thegreen.community\/c\/cccc-covid19-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Green: COVID-19 Response Room<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-38706 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"440\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 30 of 45 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/series\/covid-19\/\">COVID-19<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>The federal government is making $350 million available to community organizations serving vulnerable Canadians. Applications for the Emergency Community Support Fund opened May 19. Access to funding is through three national intermediaries: United Way Centraide Canada Applications through local offices Application guide here Community Foundations of Canada Application results Application&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2020\/05\/21\/covid-19-canada-emergency-community-support-fund-applications-open\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[152,240,204,435],"series":[440],"class_list":["post-29109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-canada","tag-charities","tag-charity","tag-covid-19","series-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29109"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=29109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}