Apply for funding for Social Development Partnerships Program – Children and Families – Financial Empowerment of Low-Income People

• Completed application form
• Completed attestation (Part 4 of the application form)
• Completed budget detail template
• Document confirming your CRA business/registration number or proof of provincial incorporation/registration (including your organization’s address)

• The applicant organization must be located in Canada and have a CRA business/registration number or proof of provincial incorporation/registration.
• The applicant must be an eligible organization type: not-for-profit (including charities and other qualified donees), Indigenous organization (including band/tribal councils and self-government entities), or a provincial/territorial public entity (for example an educational institution, health/social services organization, or municipality).
• The project must be carried out in Canada and align with the objective of developing and delivering financial empowerment services that improve the financial wellbeing of low-income adults.
• The project must address more than one aspect of financial wellbeing and provide more than one type of service.
• The project must include at least one formal partnership and include opportunities for low-income adults to actively contribute to the project’s design and implementation.

Eligible geographic areas

• Canada (organizations must be located in Canada; project activities must take place in Canada).

• Project objectives: how the project will achieve the program objectives.
• Organization’s capacity: recent, significant, and relevant experience delivering related programs/services.
• Project activities, timelines and feasibility: clarity of activities, realistic timelines, and feasibility of implementation.
• Project results and impact: expected results/outputs/outcomes, alignment with the funding objective, and how results will be measured and reported.
• Project budget: clarity of how funds will be used and whether costs are reasonable and support project activities.

• Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) reviews your submitted application.
• ESDC decides whether you will receive funding.
• Funding decisions were expected in fall 2021.

• The application period for this Call for Proposals was open from May 25, 2021 (12:00 pm EDT) to July 6, 2021 (12:00 pm EDT), and the current status is closed.
• Funding decisions were expected to be made in fall 2021.
• Applicants could only submit an application to one of two Calls for Proposals (this call or the “Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Children and Youth” call); if more than one application was submitted, only the first would be reviewed.
• Organizations located and operating in Quebec may need to obtain approval from the Quebec government before accepting the funding if selected.