Anti-Racism Capacity-Building Funding Available for Calgary Community Organizations
The City of Calgary has announced an anti-racism capacity-building fund for community-based initiatives. This funding will support collaborative projects that aim to build organizational capacity in order to facilitate policy and systemic change against systemic racism.
More specifically, the City is seeking applications for collaborative initiatives that will allow organizations to identify and undo systemic racism by changing practices, policies, structures and/or systems.
In order to be eligible, applicants must be nonprofits, non-governmental organizations, or registered charities. Applicants must have previous experience collaborating with others to address systemic racism and discrimination, and have experience using an intersectional approach in their work. Priority will be given to community organizations directly impacted by racism.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate how their proposal would meet one or more of the following objectives:
Form and create sustainability plans for new collaborative initiatives between one or more organizations to advance anti-racism, OR strengthen and create sustainability plans for existing collaborative initiatives between one or more organizations to advance anti-racism.
Develop policy change and implementation plans that work to undo systemic racism.
Identify service gaps and develop anti-racist system change strategies and implementation plans.
Attend, develop, or deploy training/education to further anti-racism work (can include training/education focused on capacity to do policy/system change work).
Applications are open now, and will close on September 18, 2020. More information and the application form can be found here.