Trillium Funding for Work on Environmental Issues
The Ontario Trillium Foundation has created a new granting initiative. The new Future Fund will set aside a pool of funding each year to support community initiatives to enhance the future of Ontario communities. In its inaugural year the Future Fund will strengthen the impact of organizations working on environment issues by enhancing leadership and building capacity through investments in innovation and collaboration.
Applications to the Future Fund 2007-2008 initiative must be submitted from a collaborative of organizations. Applications from organizations representing diverse communities including Aboriginal and Francophone communities and non-traditional partnerships including the private sector, universities, colleges and governments are encouraged.
Priority will be placed on funding applications which
- Encourage organizational learning, knowledge sharing and transfer
- Foster collaboration, enhance leadership and sustainability within the sector and throughout the province
- Accelerate the ability of the environment sector to achieve common goals and objectives
- Facilitate the ability of organizations to work better together to deliver programs and services that have an impact on the environment
- Build leadership, engage communities and mobilize volunteers
- Catalyze increased local environmental activity
- Build models with the potential for replicability
Deadline for submission is Friday November 30, 2007, by 5:00 p.m.
For further information see
http://www.trilliumfoundation.org/User/Docs/PDFs/RFP_Future_Fund.pdf (link opens PDF file).
[Source: MNCHP Network, http://www.beststart.org/services/information.html]
