2024 Collaboration Grant Stream Recipients

Two smiling women stand outside the Compost Education Centre.

$721,000 granted to 17 collaborative projects addressing complex challenges

$721,318 supported 17 non-profit and charitable collaborations in the capital region in 2024 through the Community Grants Program Collaboration Stream. This funding helped meet the growing need for resources in the philanthropic sector and supported organizations working together to address solutions to the complex challenges facing our region.

The 2024 Collaboration Grant Stream supported two grant sub-streams reflecting the evolving ways community organizations are looking to work together to address collective goals:

Collaborative Practice Innovation Grants were developed in response to the growing number of collaboratives that are focused on strengthening sector and organizational effectiveness through strategic collaboration.
Collaborating for Systems Change Grants continue to focus on efforts to disrupt the status quo and shift the conditions that hold a complex community problem in place by addressing underlying root causes.

Grant recipients were chosen with an emphasis on an equitable distribution across the region’s geography and equity-deserving populations, while prioritizing organizations working on key Vital Signs issue areas.

Thank you to our generous donors

The Victoria Foundation works closely with generous donors in our community to provide funding for the program. The funding is made up of discretionary endowed funds, the foundation’s Community Action Funds and $270,000 in one-time funding from the Government of British Columbia through the Community Prosperity Fund, an investment totaling $25 million for the province’s non-profit sector.

$311,302

came from Discretionary Funds where donors gave the Foundation the discretion to allocate grants.

$140,016

came from Community Action Funds which enable individual donors to support cause areas of their choice.

$270,000

came from the Community Prosperity Fund, a one-time investment made by the Government of British Columbia totalling $25 million for the province’s non-profit sector.

2024 Collaboration Stream Grant Recipients

The purpose of the Collaboration Grant Stream is to strengthen the non-profit sector’s collaboration muscles. The program prioritizes collaboratives of 3 or more organizations that are based and operating within the capital region, are led by or serve equity-deserving groups and demonstrate strong financial need. It funds collaborative projects, initiatives and ‘backbone’ operations for groups that are working across a range of cause areas. This includes the environment, racial equity, food security, housing, health, homelessness, gender equality, the arts, sports and recreation and more!