Overview
Calgary Foundation grants are available to registered charities and other qualified donees as defined by the Canada Revenue Agency, in Calgary and the surrounding area, and Treaty 7 Nations.
Organizations can apply to more than one grant program at a time. In general, an organization can hold a maximum of one active grant in each program. An exception may apply to organizations supporting a non-charity or group of charities. Please check the grant program guidelines for details.
Grant Programs
Supports single or multi-year, large-scale initiatives with transformational impact that broadly enrich the community.
Deadline:
November (check program webpage for precise deadlines)
Funding Level:
Grants sizes vary, the average is between $1-1.5M
Strengthening all parts of the charitable sector and engaging citizens in building their communities. Projects that are new or represent significant strategic enhancements or expansion to existing programs or services.
Deadline:
- Mid-February
- Mid-September
- (Check website for precise deadlines)
Funding Level:
Grants sizes vary, the average is $60,000
Supports all aspects of amateur sports in Canada. Includes new initiatives that encourage young people to learn about, enjoy and play amateur sport of all kinds as well as those that increase equal access and promote participation in community-based amateur sport. (Open to charities across Canada).
Deadline:
Mid-November
Funding Level:
Grants sizes vary, the average is $15,000
Support small, time-sensitive strategic initiatives that help charities:
- Bring outside expertise into the organization in order to build capacity, strengthen board governance; or support professional development. and/or
- Advance their work by piloting a new program idea, testing an innovative enhancement to current program offerings, or improving outcomes for program participants
Deadline:
First of every month
Funding Level:
Grants sizes vary, the maximum is $10,000
Help people build their sense of inclusive belonging in their own neighbourhoods and communities. Charities must use a community development approach and have meaningful project leadership roles for grassroots people from the project community. If your group is not a registered charity, call us to discuss grant options.
Deadline:
Multiple deadlines through the year
Funding Level:
Grants sizes vary, the maximum is $7,500
Help people bring small acts of community to life. These small grants encourage active citizenship by providing residents with funds to implement creative projects that benefit their local community. This program is offered in partnership with First Calgary Financial.
Deadline:
Apply anytime. We aim to let you know within four weeks if your project will be awarded a Stepping Stones.
Funding Level:
Ranging from $100 – $1000
Debt financing (loans) to charities and non-profit organizations. Augments investments from traditional financial institutions or provides investments to organizations with credit capacity, but who are unable to secure financing from a bank or other financial institution.
Deadline:
Ongoing
Funding Level:
Varies widely
Catchment Area
Calgary, Banff National Park, Canmore, Rocky View County, the Municipal Districts of Big Horn, Foothills, Kananaskis and Wheatland, and the surrounding First Nations of Treaty 7 territory.
What we don’t support through application-based grants:
- Activities that do not align with Calgary Foundation’s stated values
- Hosting annual or ongoing events /conferences
- Academic research
- Fundraising activities or salaries
- Debt retirement and endowments
- Religious services or proselytizing.
Who assesses grant requests:
Calgary Foundation’s volunteer committees assess the majority of grant requests. The Grants and Advisory Committees are composed of board members and community leaders with diverse backgrounds in charitable work and community building.
Get in touch:
Calgary Foundation is striving to make all our grant processes equitable. Grants Associates provide input, support and guidance to applicants and we are open to learning how we might make our processes more accessible to equity-seeking communities.
Whenever possible, we are happy to chat about your initiative or idea before you apply. Please review the program guidelines and contact us to discuss any questions. If you are not sure which type of grant is the best fit, please contact us at:
Grant & Project Search
Search, browse or filter to see previously awarded grants and projects. By sharing this information in a transparent, accessible format we hope that:
- Charities and other community members will find it useful to see what Calgary Foundation has funded previously
- Organizations doing similar work may use this information to connect
NOTE: This search functionality is a work in progress. Please let us know if additional filter criteria would be useful to you. Some project descriptions may have formatting errors that result from our database export – not the organization’s original submission. Please note that the grants and projects found here primarily reflect the application-based grant programs above. This listing does not include grants made via Donor Advised and Designated, Student Award or Charitable Organization Funds. For a full listing, see our Annual Reports.
Name of Organization
Project Name
Grant Program
Grant Year
Description
Amount
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Name of Organization
13008037 Canada AssociationProject Name
Youth en Route policy reviewGrant Program
Strategic Opportunity GrantsGrant Year
April 2023 - March 2024Description
Youth en Route's Board of Directors updated and reviewed its operating and governance policies in January 2023. As a relatively new organization, these policies are important to ensure the organization is ready and capable of accepting larger and more complex grants and operating revenue. The organization is on the cusp of moving from a fully volunteer organization to one with paid staff and it is incumbent on the board to lay the proper foundation for effective governance. The purpose of this project is to perform an expert review of the organization's existing policies and discuss and/or incorporate suggested improvements to prepare the organization for future growth.Amount
$5,000 -
Name of Organization
Abbeydale Community AssociationProject Name
Community Garden ExpansionGrant Program
Stepping StonesGrant Year
April 2023 - March 2024Description
Volunteers add more garden beds to meet community interest in participatingAmount
$1,000 -
Name of Organization
Ability New Brunswick Inc./Capacité Nouveau-Brunswick Inc.Project Name
Removing Barriers for Para Sport Development in New BrunswickGrant Program
Doc Seaman Amateur Sport GrantsGrant Year
April 2018 - March 2019Description
Para NB Sport & Recreation's initiative is to bring parallel sport and recreation to individuals with a disability by offering free access to adapted equipment through our provincial equipment loan service and support for a variety of adapted sports throughout New Brunswick.Amount
$30,000 -
Name of Organization
Ability New Brunswick Inc./Capacité Nouveau-Brunswick Inc.Project Name
Keeping Active in Para Sport and Recreation During COVID-19 in New BrunswickGrant Program
Doc Seaman Amateur Sport GrantsGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
This project aims to bring physical and mental health benefits through access to parallel sport and recreation for individuals with a physical disability by offering free access to adapted equipment through our provincial equipment loan service and accessibility reviews throughout New Brunswick.Amount
$30,000 -
Name of Organization
Ability Society of AlbertaProject Name
Technology for Online ServicesGrant Program
Pandemic-Related Grant ProgramsGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
We consistently provide programs and services to approximately 1200 distinct children with mild, moderate and severe disabilities, and their families, per year. Approximately 85percent of that number have an Autism diagnosis. Almost two thirds of our caseload are immigrant families. Prior to COVID, all of our services were done face to face either individually or in groups. COVID has rendered that service model impossible and we have had to immediately pivot to an online service model. That is a model we are ill prepared for and requires a technological infrastructure that we mostly do not have. Thus we require resources for staff training plus physical assets such as Hardware ( laptops and tablets for parents and children of modest means who don t have them), Software, Conferencing Equipment, Clinical Toys and Supplies and a small amount for office related equipment.Amount
$35,000 -
Name of Organization
Ability Society of AlbertaProject Name
general charitable activityGrant Program
OtherGrant Year
April 2018 - March 2019Description
Amount
$9,275 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
Board Governance and Strategic PlanningGrant Program
Strategic Opportunity GrantsGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
Develop a three-year strategic plan and board governance refresher for The Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary (AFCC) Board of Directors.Amount
$10,000 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
Circle for Aboriginal Relations - AFCC Board Governance and Strategy DevelopmentGrant Program
Strategic Opportunity GrantsGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
Circle for Aboriginal Relations brings together professionals from diverse backgrounds with with Aboriginal Relations groups in communities, governments and industries. We provide leadership by creating a circle to foster a broad understanding different perspectives to address needs in community. CFAR values the vision and direction of the AFCC and so in partnership would like to understand the predominant needs of the Indigenous community so as to build solutions together for the betterment of Indigenous people. This project would bring in a qualified consultant Tracy Balash, Brave Birds Studio to undertake Board Governance and Strategy training to update and align the direction of CFAR as an entity, and in concert with AFCC. See workplan.Amount
$10,000 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
COVID-19 Indigenous Task ForceGrant Program
Pandemic-Related Grant ProgramsGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
During the pandemic, our priority is to provide social and basic food and non-food supports and resource to Indigenous, children, youth and families including Elders/ seniors, and homeless individuals.Amount
$50,000 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
AFCC Elders LodgeGrant Program
Major & Signature GrantsGrant Year
April 2022 - March 2023Description
Twelve, self-contained, one-bedroom units of affordable housing, AFCC, in consultation with its design team and informed by its Elder’s, has created an Indigenous owned and operated building designed from the ground up to provide safe and dignified accommodation for Indigenous seniors. Two of the units will be fully accessible and two additional units are designed to be adaptable for barrier free occupancy, allowing for maximum optimization for residents whose mobility needs could change in time. The building is designed to be durable with a robust building envelope. The energy consumption will be 40 to 45% below the Alberta Building Code requirements and will be augmented with solar voltaic panels. The land blessing ceremony occurred in January 2022 and construction commenced in May 2022. The anticipated completion is May 2023. Additionally, AFCC, Elder Reg Crow Shoe (CM) and Rose Crow Shoe (CM), wishes to honour the significant cultural contributions of Canada’s First Nations and Indigenous peoples by providing a variety of Indigenous art work. Furthermore, the intent is to invite local Indigenous artists to provide artwork, artifacts, sculptures, and other interpretative works to create a living culture with tangible links to the Indigenous community. See attached suggested request for proposals for local Indigenous artists. The amenity and gathering space have been envisioned as a multi-purpose area for cultural activities, teaching, knowledge circle, and ceremonies. The opportunity to provide special rug as a central focus and other accessories to create a unique environment for spiritual healing, and knowledge transfer. See attached suggested request for proposal for local indigenous artist. The current project funding is for hard and soft costs only. Appliances are currently unfunded. To offer a truly dignified living environment for seniors, We would like to furnish all the suites with. a curated package : bedding, furnishings, appliances, cookware, and other household items provided to each unit has been designed to reflect the overall respect we have for the Elder’s of the community. A turnkey, fully furnished housing solution allows for the assurance of safety, comfort, and dignity to the residents. Given the timing of the anticipated completion date of May 2023, we believe this aligns perfectly with the timing of the Calgary Foundation.Amount
$380,000 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
Is Kitsii Gome (Seven Brothers Circle): Community Healing CollectiveGrant Program
Major & Signature GrantsGrant Year
April 2022 - March 2023Description
The collective strategically supported the community through the pandemic, and now provides continuing care supports post COVID. This unique approach to delivering programs and services is geared towards removing barriers and empowering individuals. The collective maintains it's Indigenous based framework and strategy ( attached for context) to ensure cultural relevancy and safety. Our goal is to address the following key areas : basic needs , food security and provide cultural reconnection opportunities. The Seven Brothers Circle membership operates on a 'pooling' resources and coordinated approach to meeting the need of the community. During the requested timeframe, we hope to achieve the following: 1) Identifying immediate needs of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit people living within the Treaty 7 territory of Alberta. Post COVID - Continuing Care Supports. 2) Coordinate and connect the efforts of front-line agencies, partners, funders, and advisors to meet the needs of Indigenous community members. 3) Joint funding applications for new program development addressing existing gaps in services. 4) Create Orientation/Recruitment package, ie. ‘Creation Story’ 5) Elder consultations and guidance. 6) Utilization of the community network to spread information of important current events, community updates, and new programming and supports. 7) Holistic evaluation of the wellbeing, engagement, and success of Indigenous community members, and sharing information on any programming gaps or successes with the collaboration to improve community .Amount
$220,000 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
AFCC Continuity and Recovery PlanGrant Program
Pandemic-Related Grant ProgramsGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
The next three months it's imperative that we plan for the continuation of essential and critical Friendship Centre functions and services, the plan will assist in distinguishing between critical and essential services and those that can be stopped or adapted to the changing environment. Currently, the Friendship Centres are in the response phase of a global pandemic. Normally, this planning would have happened prior to the outbreak and the declaration of a public health emergency on March 17, 2020 in Alberta. This has necessitated planning during the outbreak and in advance of the recovery and mitigation phases of the planning cycle.This Plan will serve as a guide for Friendship Centres to facilitate the continuation of essential services and/or functions as well as providing alternate delivery for programs This planning process will help you to think strategically and critically about your operations and will assist in minimizing the disruption of services.Amount
$20,000 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
Indigenous Hub at Cross Roads CentreGrant Program
Community GrantsGrant Year
April 2018 - March 2019Description
Create an Indigenous Hub of services and supports contained within a singular multi-functional Centre - The Indigenous Hub @ Crossroads Centre.Amount
$150,000 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
Addictions and Continuing Cultural SupportsGrant Program
Community GrantsGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
The Addictions and Continuing Cultural Supports Program will use culturally appropriate resources to engage, support and inform our Aboriginal community about opioid addiction.Amount
$200,000 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
Elders & Seniors Gathering to Address the Community's Opioid CrisisGrant Program
OtherGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
To support 80 Elders in a community gathering by providing stew, bannock and berry soup; for the voices of the Elders to be heard on this important issue that is having a great impact on our community.Amount
$1,200 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
Calgary Urban Indigenous Immunization RolloutGrant Program
Pandemic-Related Grant ProgramsGrant Year
April 2021 - March 2022Description
The Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary, leading with its key partners (Circle of Wisdom Elders and Seniors Centre, and Siksika Health Services) will urgently deliver COVID-19 immunizations to high-risk Indigenous individuals living in the Calgary area. AFCC will be the first Friendship Centre in Canada out of 121 to lead an Urban Indigenous COVID-19 vaccination program.Amount
$75,000 -
Name of Organization
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryProject Name
SEVEN BROTHERS CIRCLE - IS KITSII GOMEGrant Program
Pandemic-Related Grant ProgramsGrant Year
April 2021 - March 2022Description
SEVEN BROTHERS CIRCLE -IS KITSII GOME is the collective Indigenous response to COVID 19 for Calgary's urban Indigenous community and surrounding Nations. Using the Indigenous Oral Practices Governance Model over 24 partnering agencies and stakeholders address seven areas (circles)- social and cultural supports Indigenous housing basic needs mental health technology enabling services income support. The Circles are guided by the wisdom of the Elders/Knowledge Keepers.Amount
$75,000 -
Name of Organization
Abundant Life Church SocietyProject Name
Bread Basket Food Program RedesignGrant Program
Pandemic-Related Grant ProgramsGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
We hope to add mobile shelving and other equipment to reorganize and redesign our program so we can distribute food while following current health and safety guidelines (to meet AHS regulations).Amount
$5,721 -
Name of Organization
ACCA Leadership FoundationProject Name
Alberta Social Innovation & Finance StrategyGrant Program
OtherGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
To fund a two-year 'experiment' to build the social finance ecosystem in Alberta.Amount
$20,000 -
Name of Organization
Accessible Housing SocietyProject Name
HR Efficiency and Compliance ImprovementsGrant Program
Community GrantsGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
Improvements to Accessible Housing's digital human resources systems will result in greater efficiency and accuracy for Accessible Housing's team, resulting in a stronger and more sustainable organization overall.Amount
$25,169 -
Name of Organization
Accessible Housing SocietyProject Name
Pandemic Funding NeedsGrant Program
Pandemic-Related Grant ProgramsGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
Due to the pandemic we have had to find new/different ways to provide services for clients and residents in programs. Clients coming out of homelessness do not have mobile phones, we need to adjust service delivery significantly during this pandemic, thus communication remotely with clients is vital. To adjust we need to purchase prepaid phone so Case Workers can provide regular check ins with clients to see how they are coping physically and emotionally with the pandemic. In another program, we are incurring unbudgeted and unexpected expenses to provide daily health screenings for all residents. Each day, we do 100 screenings based on information from Alberta Health, each screening sheet needs to be printed and kept on record. This process has increased supply costs for printing and toner and increased workload for staffing. We also had to adjust increased demand in staffing by adding on-call staff and contract workers as well as incurring additional overtime costs for staff.Amount
$10,000 -
Name of Organization
ACORN Institute CanadaProject Name
Civic Engagement for Calgary Tenants in partnership with Calgary ACORNGrant Program
Community GrantsGrant Year
April 2023 - March 2024Description
ACORN Institute Canada will assist Calgary ACORN in expanding it's impact in Calgary's low-to-moderate income communities through the Civic Engagement for Calgary Tenants project. This engagement project and workshop series will combat civic disengagement in the Calgary's low-to-moderate income communities by engaging and training new civic leaders on policy issues that matter to them.Amount
$30,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Sound Mind Sound BodyGrant Program
Neighbour GrantsGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
Women in the Afghani community run a series of workshops to involve more isolated women into community lifeAmount
$7,500 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Bahaghari Rainbow ProjectGrant Program
Neighbour GrantsGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
Members of the FilipinX community group Bahaghari support each other and engage their wider communities through events and activities to breakdown stereotypes.Amount
$7,500 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Greater Forest Lawn Parent Support NetworkGrant Program
Neighbour GrantsGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
Neighbourhood volunteers build links of trust and empowerment between community residents and local services.Amount
$7,500 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Youth Empowerment mental-health FairGrant Program
Neighbour GrantsGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
Young leaders within the Filipino community organize a public event to destigmatize the topic of mental health and will collect youth’s stories as a new community resource.Amount
$7,500 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Every Vote Counts 2021Grant Program
Neighbour GrantsGrant Year
April 2021 - March 2022Description
Youth volunteers design and deliver several fun non-partisan events to introduce municipal politics to their peers ages 15-24Amount
$7,500 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Greater Forest Lawn Parent Support NetworkGrant Program
Neighbour GrantsGrant Year
April 2021 - March 2022Description
Community volunteers continue to grow the safe platform they have created for parents to explore opportunities, connect with resources, build their capacities and have a voice.Amount
$7,500 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Inclusive Development of Calgary's Cultural Chinatown PlanGrant Program
Strategic Opportunity GrantsGrant Year
April 2018 - March 2019Description
An emerging issue identified at the Action Chinese Canadians Together Foundation Leaders' Summit is the conservation of Chinatowns in Canada. This is the same issue identified in the City of Calgary's October 2018 Planning & Development Report, which states that "A conversation about culture is needed to better understand and support the replacement of the existing ARP to ensure that future planning...and future land use decisions and developments enhance the existing cultural character of the community." The project goal is to enhance the stakeholders and impacted community's understanding and capacity to collaboratively design and meaningfully participate in future development of the Chinatown Cultural plan, in support of the larger Cultural Plan for Calgary.Amount
$10,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Preparing for Successful Executive TransitionGrant Program
Strategic Opportunity GrantsGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
ActionDignity is undergoing leadership transition as its Executive Director for 12 years retires by July 2021. The Board is taking proactive steps to ensure the organization is prepared. This project will produce and implement a customized approach in Organizational Readiness Assessment that is reflective of the organizational culture, as well as effective stakeholder engagement, support and input for a successful leadership transition. The work will be conducted by an external consultant that will work with a Board/Staff Transition Committee for 3 months. This is the first phase of a year-long transition process that will result to hiring and coaching/mentoring the new leadership.Amount
$10,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Third Party Fundraising Strategic PlanGrant Program
OtherGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
To hire a consultant to help guide the organization (staff and Board) through creating best practices, policies and procedures in relation to organizing, partnering and hosting third party fund-raising events. In addition, the consultant will help create a donor relations strategy to help build long-term sustainability and capacity in the organization.Amount
$20,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Resident Pantries for Local Exchange (Resident PLEX)Grant Program
Stepping StonesGrant Year
April 2018 - March 2019Description
Neighbourhood volunteers and supporters install a free food pantry to help their peers who are facing hard timesAmount
$600 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Intergenerational Dialogue on mental-healthGrant Program
Stepping StonesGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
Youth volunteers work with local artists to design and run a participatory arts event to help adults engage in a community conversation about mental health and wellnessAmount
$600 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Project Lifeline, in partnership with Philippine Emergency Response Task ForceGrant Program
Stepping StonesGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
A volunteer group that gets resources to the Philippines after natural disasters shifts its focus to getting supplies to people in Southern Alberta whose livelihoods and wellbeing are suffering due to the pandemicAmount
$1,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Grassroots Community Peer Support GroupGrant Program
Stepping StonesGrant Year
April 2021 - March 2022Description
Women leaders from Nigerian, Ghanaian, and Caribbean communities work together to reach isolated community members.Amount
$1,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Every Vote Counts 2018Grant Program
Neighbour GrantsGrant Year
April 2018 - March 2019Description
Youth educate youth about the importance of voting.Amount
$5,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Reconnecting with Nature in partnership with Eritrean Seniors Community AssociationGrant Program
Neighbour GrantsGrant Year
April 2018 - March 2019Description
Seniors and their communities deepen their connection to the land and their city through learning activitiesAmount
$5,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
South Asian Inspiration Awards DevelopmentGrant Program
Strategic Opportunity GrantsGrant Year
April 2021 - March 2022Description
This project will support the launch of the South Asian Inspirational Awards by laying the foundation for the creation of the awards that will recognize individuals who have contributed to positive changes in the community. This initiative will also raise awareness of the need to advance gender equality/equity in the South Asian Community in Calgary in surrounding area. The SAIA was incorporated as a nonprofit society in September 2021, and development work is needed to create the process, policies, and framework for the awards with a goal to launch the awards program in the fall of 2022.Amount
$6,900 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
ActionDignity CBGrant Program
Pandemic-Related Grant ProgramsGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
ActionDignity will engage racialized communities, leaders, Board, and staff, in Organizational Assessment to enrich its Strategic Plan and create a 2-year Business Plan that decisively addresses equity, inclusion and social justice for racialized communities in response to the deepening impacts of COVID-19, racism and economic downturn. This CB project will work towards developing an adaptive, proactive and sustainable organization.Amount
$75,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Black mental-health Matters Initiative (BMHMI)Grant Program
Pandemic-Related Grant ProgramsGrant Year
April 2021 - March 2022Description
Immigrant Outreach Society is established to fill the mental and psychosocial service gaps that exist due to systemic and structural racism and neglect. Immigrant Outreach Society is requesting Calgary Foundation to increase its capacity and service delivery so it can help mitigate the service gaps in the the mainstream mental health system that is not fit for black immigrants. This will help black ethnic minorities access the services they so deserve and require as citizens of this country.Amount
$75,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Strengthening Ethnocultural Communities ResponseGrant Program
Pandemic-Related Grant ProgramsGrant Year
April 2020 - March 2021Description
ActionDignity partners with 80 culturally diverse community organizations, 15 of whom expressed the need for help to better serve families in consideration of their culture. We are part of a COVID Response Team that partners with AHS in educating and assisting workers' families to practice AHS advisory. More than 70percent of 2,300 Cargill workers live in Calgary with their families. We support essential workers and their households from Cargill and elsewhere, most of whom are infected and isolating.Urgent Needs for ethnocultural organizations:1. Help organizations provide culturally appropriate urgent needs: food, house supplies 2. Support organizations use technology and online communications to safely assist their community members in first language as they get food, supplies and information 3. Coaching on how to apply for CERB, Workers Compensation, and government benefits 4. Information about COVID, flattening the curve, coping, mental health, workers rights.Amount
$120,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
The B.L.A.C.K Project Becoming Leaders Acquiring Critical KnowledgeGrant Program
Community GrantsGrant Year
April 2019 - March 2020Description
The B.L.A.C.K Project is a 3-year collaborative project for Black youth in Calgary to focus on personal growth and development beyond the classroom. Youth will gain confidence, leverage community connections and learn how to build their own initiatives, while combating anti-black racism.Amount
$135,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
Reaching Out Acting Together for Equity and DiversityGrant Program
Community GrantsGrant Year
April 2018 - March 2019Description
Action Dignity aims to adjust its organizational framework to act as a shared platform for boosting joint initiatives across communities. It will broadly communicate its new brand to the public, plan and implement formal platform functions and transition to a more effective collaborative for equity.Amount
$150,000 -
Name of Organization
Action DignityProject Name
3-year core operating supportGrant Program
OtherGrant Year
April 2021 - March 2022Description
Amount
$225,000 -
Name of Organization
Action Dignity SocietyProject Name
Community GatheringsGrant Program
Stepping StonesGrant Year
April 2022 - March 2023Description
Community volunteers provide learning and friendship opportunities for isolated youth and womenAmount
$1,000 -
Name of Organization
Action Dignity SocietyProject Name
Black Mental Health Matters Initiative Phase two in partnership with Immigrant Outreach ServicesGrant Program
Community GrantsGrant Year
April 2022 - March 2023Description
Immigrant Outreach Society aims at filling the service gaps that exist for ethnic minorities by providing culturally appropriate trauma informed services. Black refugee are underrepresented in the mental health system and face discrimination as the current system does not acknowledge their racial trauma their unique culture and language needs. As a consequence the rate of mental illness occurrence substance abuse GBV child abuse and neglect among blacks is disproportionally higher than their white counterparts.Amount
$100,000 -
Name of Organization
Action Dignity SocietyProject Name
The Spirit of Greater Forest Lawn Leadership Recognition AwardsGrant Program
Stepping StonesGrant Year
April 2022 - March 2023Description
A community event to celebrate grassroots leadership in the neighbourhood and inspire moreAmount
$1,000 -
Name of Organization
Action Dignity SocietyProject Name
Shared Space PilotGrant Program
OtherGrant Year
April 2022 - March 2023Description
Action Dignity is partnering with The Centre for Newcomers to develop a new space that will be available to emerging ethnocultural groups (mostly black and racially-led nonprofits) who need a space for programming but don't require a fulltime location. The space itself is located in the same strip mall as Centre for Newcomers and therefore is easily accessible by transit. Funding would go toward renovating the space, utilities, and some overhead costs. Potential tenant organizations include: The Immigrant Outreach Society, Best Help Family Foundation, Oladele Cancer Foundation, The Calgary Ethiopian Youth Alliance, YYC Eritrean, and the Ethiopian and Eritrean Students Association, South Sudanese Community Association.Amount
$100,000 -
Name of Organization
Action Dignity SocietyProject Name
Weaving World Views and Practices: Collaborating to Improve Mental Health of Racialized CommunitiesGrant Program
Major & Signature GrantsGrant Year
April 2022 - March 2023Description
The mental health and wellness of racialized and newcomers’ communities has been ActionsDignity’s focus in the past 10 years. Through its various programs (SHARE and INDIE) and participatory research, ActionDignity has provided an ethnocultural and racial lens focused on experiences of racialized community members in accessing mental health services. This project aims at improving the mental health experiences of racialized communities through transformative and systemic collaboration. Guided by systemic goals achievement theory of change and informed by the Water of Systems Change1 model, it seeks to work with formal institutions, service providers, community partners, service users and grassroot organizations to address the 6 conditions identified by the Water of Systems Change model. It will challenge the dominant paradigm of Calgary's approach to addressing mental health and wellness of its vulnerable populations and push for a comprehensive approach on mental health that must include structural changes in policy, practices and resource flow; improve collaborations by addressing dynamics of power among and between partners. ActionDignity will capitalize on its existing structures: Platform strategy and Broker model. ActionDignity anchors the shared Platform by convening and connecting members, creating opportunities for transformative capacity building and mobilizing resources for community action plans. It will support the engagement of partners and stakeholders, tease out the system through actor, trends and systems mapping and analysis to create a shared understanding and agenda. Imagine a Mental Health Orchestra wherein the mental health systems are composed of diverse players – service providers, mental health professionals and groups working in harmony by playing different roles in the system. The project will explicitly put racism and its various intersections that produce and reproduce racial trauma as central to its success. Thus, the history of slavery, colonization and racism will be considered, and their impact on policies, practices and present-day narratives of mental health addressed through transformative collaboration and continuous quality learning over the project duration and beyond. Research and strong ethnic and mainstream media engagement strategy will be employed as mechanisms for systematic transformation of current mental models and tools for education and anti-oppressive and anti-racist practices.Amount
$335,000 -
Name of Organization
Action Dignity SocietyProject Name
South Sudanese Leadership Council activitiesGrant Program
OtherGrant Year
April 2022 - March 2023Description
Following the province-wide South Sudanese Healing and Reconciliation Conference, the community is developing an action to respond to community recommendations.Amount
$67,834