Grant and Funding Programs Offered by Canadian Roots Exchange

Indigenous Youth Roots is a national Indigenous youth-led charity that provides programs, grants, and opportunities for Indigenous youth across Canada. The site shows that the organization is not only an engagement or training body, but also an active funder that distributes project-based grants through its Creation Community Grants Program.

The Creation program supports strengths-based, community-focused, and youth-led projects in communities across Canada. Eligible applicants include grassroots youth groups and collectives made up of Indigenous youth ages 15 to 29, and some streams also fund non-profits, organizations, and charities led by Indigenous youth.

The page evidence shows several distinct funding streams, including Youth Empowerment, Small Project, Scaling, Youth and Community Wellness, Multi-Year Project, Land and Food Sovereignty, Medium Project, and Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise streams. The organization also indicates that Creation runs multiple funding streams per year, which suggests an ongoing grant portfolio rather than a single one-off call.

In addition to financial support, the program offers mentorship, training, capacity-building opportunities, and workshops on grant writing, budgeting, and business planning. That combination points to a broader youth development model built around funding plus practical project support.

The organization states that Creation is guided by an advisory circle of Indigenous youth and that Indigenous Youth Roots is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and being. The site also includes grantee highlights and an application portal, further confirming an established grantmaking process and public-facing accountability.