Funding Sources for Community Initiatives

There are many sources for community initiatives to access funding. CDLI highlights a local funding opportunity, a listing of granting organizations that provide local funding support, and links to support for grassroots grant-makers.

Local Grant Opportunities:

• The Calgary Foundation

• Community Capital Conservation

• Community Standards Fund

• Council Strategic Initiatives Fund

• First Calgary Financial

• Government of Alberta – Community Facility Enhancement Program

• Parks Foundation Calgary

• Take Action Grants

• Ward Community Event Fund

• Neighborhood Grants Vancouver (thinking of collaborating outside of Calgary)

Tips for Organizations that Fund Community Development Projects:

• Grassroots Grantmakers is a network of people and organizations who are inventing and utilizing ways to support groups of everyday people as community builders and change-makers in the places where they live.

Check out these films as an inspiration for what grassroots granting can help make happen and, more importantly, what people can do in their ordinary neighbourhood & community lives.

• Calgary Foundation You Tube Channel - video stories from Calgary Foundation