Alberta Grant Gazette│May 2 of 2 – May 16
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Grants
Hi Everyone,
A number of grant deadlines, grant events, and business awards are below.
Start thinking about your fall grant applications. Many open in September and October. To avoid being surprised in grants, you can build a grant calendar. Build your own or?contact us?if you need help.
Keep up the great work. Have an awesome week.
David Kincade, MA
1. Agriculture
On-Farm Value-added Program: the program is now accepting applications until May 24, 2022.
Value Added program: the program is now accepting applications from until May 24, 2022.
Water Program:?he program is now accepting applications.
2. Arts and Culture
Community Culture Grants: In Red Deer? Start planning for this asap. The next three year cycle for grant intakes will be in fall of 2022.
Equity and Access in the Arts: A combined total of up to $500,000 will be allocated to the three Streams in this program. Deadline: June 1, 2022.
Professional Development for Artists component of Explore and Create: up to $10 000 funding available. Next cut-off date: June 1, 2022.
Summer School Project Funding: up to 40% of eligible expenses will be funded. Deadline: July 15, 2022.
3. COVID
U.S. Mission to Canada Funding Opportunities:?Combatting COVID-19 Grant Program?with up to $100,00 grant available. Deadline: July 6, 2022.
Restrictions Exemption Program – Safety training: provide $1 million in grant funding to support Alberta workers.
Work-Sharing Program: special measures for employers affected by the downturn in business related to COVID-19 effective March 15, 2020 to September 24, 2022.
COVID-19 wage and hiring support for businesses: enable you to re-hire workers, help prevent further job losses, and ease your business back into normal operations.
COVID-19 rent and property expense support for businesses: you may be eligible for a subsidy to cover part of your commercial rent or property expenses.
Indigenous Community Business Fund: access funding to support their community-owned businesses whose revenues have been affected by COVID-19.
The?Digital Economy Program?helps small businesses take their businesses online.
Stay tuned to the third intake of the?Alberta Jobs Now program: up to $370 million funding assistance.?
4. Employment | Varies
Career Launcher: Natural Resources Internships. May 19, 2022.
Technation: Get student help in the fall and winter terms.
Young Canada Works at Building Careers in English and French (YCWBCEF)?is an internship program for unemployed or underemployed post-secondary graduates.
Looking to scale-up? The?Growth Catalyst program?sparks the creation and sets the foundation for executing a growth strategy by CEOs and their senior leadership teams.
The?Jobs and Growth Fund (JGF)?is a $700-million federal program to support regional job creation and position local economies for long-term growth.
Youth Employment Program?funds up to $30,000 wages per employee.
5. Environment/CleanTech
Clean Fuel Fund: Establishing biomass supply chains. The call for project proposals will open spring 2022.
Canada Greener Homes Grant: Grants from $125 to $5,000. To get a part of your costs back for eligible home retrofits.
Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) is committing $50 million through its new?Circular Economy Challenge?to accelerate the province’s transition towards a low-emissions economy. Deadline: May 26, 2022.
Digital Innovation in Clean Energy (DICE): Project funding can be up to but not exceed $350,000.
Projects funded through Alberta Innovates’ Clean Resources business unit fall under one of five streams. Learn more?here.
6. Export
EUREKA: Projects are financed through national public and private funding mechanisms, including the NRC’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) for Canadian SMEs.
Startup Global: Pitch to win cash and fund the business of your dreams. Total prize pool of $75k.
Export Readiness – Micro Vouchers: with up to $20,000 funding to build and develop a strategic approach for expansion globally. Set to end on May 1, 2023 or when all funds are disbursed.
Soft Landing: Scale From Home:?Canada’s Tech Network’s Soft Landing: Scale From Home program offers qualified tech-driven startups and scale-ups exposure to digital business opportunities by offering $4,000 CAD in reimbursable marketing and sales expenses.
7. Indigenous
First Nation Infrastructure Fund: The deadline to submit your First Nation Infrastructure Investment Plan is in the fall of each year. There is no deadline to receive FNIF funding.
In partnership with Community Futures Treaty Seven (CFT7), Aboriginal Futures offers a Wage Subsidy program. Learn more?here.
The?Health Services Integration Fund (HSIF)?is an initiative supporting collaborative planning and multi-year projects aimed at better meeting the health-care needs of First Nations and Inuit.
The?Reserve Land and Environmental Management Program?provides funding to First Nations to develop capacity to manage reserve land, resources and environment.
8. Municipalities
Capital project: GHG impact retrofit: Maximum of $5 million per project. Up to 25% as a grant and the remainder as a loan. Applications are accepted year-round, though this offer will close when all the funding has been allocated.
The?Northern Access Round?is now officially open!?$80M in funding available. Deadline: June 23, 2022.
Pilot project: Local home-energy upgrade financing program?provides up to $500,000 to cover up to 50% of eligible costs.
Study: Retrofit of municipal facilities: Up to 50% of eligible costs to a maximum of $175,000.
Community building recommissioning grant: Grant for a maximum of $55,000 to cover up to 60% of eligible costs. Applications are accepted year-round.
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9. Non-Profit
Alberta Community Restorative Justice Grant. Given that this grant opened in December, you may want to start thinking through projects early. Contact the grant agency and see if it’s opening again this year. You can use this process on any grant. The key is planning. Get your master grant application updated.
First responders’ mental health grants:?There is up to $1.5 million available for this grant program in 2022-23. Deadline: June 13, 2022.
The?Northern Access Round: $80M in funding available. Deadline: June 23, 2022.
The?CFEP Large Funding stream?is for projects requesting over $125,001 and up to $1 million. annual intake of June 15.
Donation Fund Program?matching campaign maximum matching funding per eligible organization is $10,000.Deadline: August 30, 2022.
10. Post Secondary | Varies
Supporting STEM learning opportunities for women: Alberta’s government is investing $1 million in these bursary programs.
Arthur B. McDonald Fellowships: Up to $250,000 total grant for Early-stage academic researchers in the natural sciences and engineering. Deadline: June 7.
Partnership Engage Grants: up to?$25,000 grants to provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities. Next deadline: June 15.
Alliance International Quantum grants: Up to $25,000 for one year. Next deadline: June 15, 2022.
The?Northern Access Round?is now officially open!?$80M in funding available. Deadline: June 23, 2022.
11. Technology | Varies
NATO Innovation Challenge: with $8,500 in monetary prize. Registration is until May 27.
Oil Spill Response Challenge: $2 million Grand Prize will be given to the team with the best demonstrated technology. Deadline: June 1, 2022.
Zayed Sustainability Prize: apply to the US$3 million Prize with each winner in the Health, Food, Energy, and Water categories eligible to receive USD 600,000. Deadline: July 6, 2022.
Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund (OCIF):?with up to $100M total fund. Learn more.
Alberta Digital Traction Pilot Program?is now open. up to $50,000 for small-and medium-sized Alberta enterprises (SMEs).
Alberta Technology and Innovation Strategy: Strengthening Alberta’s technology and innovation sector, helping to create jobs and diversify the economy. Learn more.
12. Grant Events
How Design Live. Registration is now open! Date: May 22-24, 2022.
Inventure$: Fearless for the Future. Date: June 1-3, 2022.
Accelerate from Anywhere (AfA): With multiple cohorts running from Fall 2021 to Summer 2022, discover the programs offered.
Plant Forward: the first Canada-led international conference on accelerating the growth of the plant-based food and ingredients ecosystem. Date: November 1-2, 2022.
Farm Management Canada: Risk Management Training- Roots to Success. Check the workshop series schedule?here:
Attend the?SXSW 2022. Learn more?here.
Check?here?the schedule of Risk Management Training: Roots to Success Workshop Series.
Trade Accelerator Program: Sign up now to secure your spot and get ready to expand your business.
Check out these upcoming events and webinars to learn from local experts, hear from?Alberta’s small business owners.
13. Business Award Deadlines
Canada’s Top Growing Companies. Deadline: May 31, 2022.
Nominations are now open for the 2022?Alberta Heritage Awards. Deadline: June 1, 2022.
Canadian HR Awards. Deadline: Nominations will open on April 11, 2022 until June 3, 2022.
Order of Canada. Deadline: July 1, 2022.
Zayed Sustainability Prize Opens Submissions for 2023 Cycle. Deadline: July 6, 2022.
14. Government Update
Alberta Regional Innovation Networks get another $18.7 million over three years:?https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/alberta-regional-innovation-networks-get-another-18-7-million-over-three-years
The government will provide $10.4 million to continuing care operators?to offset one-quarter of this year’s increase in long-term care and designated supportive living.
Energy Minister Sonya Savage’s statement?on updated timelines for the Site Rehabilitation Program.
Budget 2022 includes an?additional $6 million for the Civil Society Fund: helping vulnerable Albertans and contributing to the province’s social and economic recovery.
Twenty non-profit community groups in communities across Alberta have received a?Women’s Economic Recovery Challenge Grant.
Budget 2022 allocates $73 million in new funding over three years for the?Alberta Technology and Innovation Strategy.
Government of Canada announces changes to the Advance Payments Program?to support farmers ahead of planting season.
More than $46 million in grants to support colleges?as they help local and regional businesses seize new technological opportunities.
Alberta’s government has released its strategy to strengthen the technology and innovation sector, create jobs and diversify the economy.
Alberta is committing $79.5 million, which is being matched by the federal government, for a?total of almost $159 million to support 26 Alberta municipalities.
The federal government prioritized the transition to a low-carbon economy in Budget 2022?with support for initiatives that help drive the energy sector’s path to net zero.
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David Kincade, MA
Grant Writer
780-297-6177
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p.s. Grants are often hard to complete in the beginning. But they?get?easier once your master application is built.