Promoting Health Equity: Mental Health of Black Canadians Fund — Black LGBTQI+ Canadians

• Detailed budget
• Advance Screening Form or Funding Request Form
• Full proposal, if invited
• Supporting evidence or appendices

Who is eligible?

• Canadian not-for-profit organizations
• Unincorporated groups, societies, and coalitions
• Canadian public institutions and agencies
• Research organizations and post-secondary affiliates
• Private sector organizations, in partnership with a not-for-profit

Who is not eligible

• Organizations outside Canada
• For-profit organizations applying without a not-for-profit partner
• Projects focused on clinical mental health treatment
• Pure research projects

Eligible expenses

• Salaries, benefits, and consultant fees directly tied to the project
• Office space and equipment rental
• Travel, accommodation, meetings, events, and workshops in Canada
• Dissemination, promotion, communications, insurance, evaluation, and audit services

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Clinical mental health services or treatment
• Core operating expenses such as rent
• Capital costs, including land, buildings, or vehicles
• Pure research
• In-kind expenses

Eligible geographic areas

• Canada

• Fit with the Fund’s objectives and guiding principles
• Quality, clarity, and completeness of the proposal
• Responsiveness to community-identified needs
• Expected impact on Black communities
• Efficient use of resources

• Step 1: Submit the Advance Screening Form or funding request form
  • Prepare the initial application form for the relevant stream.
  • Submit it by email to the address provided by PHAC.
• Step 2: Assessment of the initial submission
  • PHAC reviews the submission for fit with the Fund’s objectives.
  • Only selected applicants are invited to continue.
• Step 3: Submit the full proposal, if invited
  • Complete the second-stage application.
  • Include the required supporting materials and detailed budget.
• Step 4: Await the funding decision
  • Applications are assessed competitively.
  • PHAC notifies applicants of the outcome.

• Applications are reviewed through a competitive assessment process.
• Only eligible proposals with strong quality are considered for funding.
• Not all eligible applications will be funded.
• Selected applicants receive a funding agreement before expenses can be incurred.

• Projects must be accessible in English or French, depending on audience.
• Applicants must consider GBA+ in their proposal.
• Research or evaluation involving humans requires ethics approval.
• Applicants may also access complementary funding from other sources.