funding guidelines
Do you qualify for funding support?
Funding requests must meet the following criteria:
- Demonstrate general support in the community and be consistent with community needs
- Demonstrate leadership, innovation and collaboration
- Demonstrate a significant and unique contribution to community life
- Demonstrate clearly defined and measurable goals and objectives
- Be financially well-administered
- Provide services and activities without regard to race, religion, creed, sex or sexual orientation
Organizations and programs that would be considered ineligible:
- Religious or sectarian organizations (except where they represent non-denominational community and social support services)
- Political organizations and candidates
- Individuals
- For-profit organizations
- Service clubs and fraternal organizations
- Third-party fundraisers or professional solicitors
- Competitive sports teams
- Advocacy or special interest groups
- Silent auction items, door prizes or event giveaways
- Capital campaigns
- Buildings or "bricks and mortar"
- Endowments
- Operating costs or capital investments
- Debt-reduction campaigns
- Goodwill advertising
- Travel, accommodation, meal expenses, field trips and tours
- Beauty pageants or wilderness adventure activities
- Ticket purchases for fundraising activities
- Retroactive requests
- Events and activities that take place outside Canada
- Conferences, seminars and workshops
Did you know?
Governance Essentials Program (GEP) is sponsored by TELUS in partnership with the Rotman School of Management and the Institute of Corporate Directors and is offered in several cities across Canada.