Collaboration Grant Stream

Program overview

Capacity for collaboration starts inside organizations. By shifting mindsets and internal practices, organizations build the foundation to work more effectively together. And when organizations work together towards shared goals, they can have far greater impact than when working alone.

As organizations begin to take collective action, they affect changes to systems and address the status quo in ways that transform places and peoples’ lives. This shift leads to greater impact on some of the community’s most pressing issues.

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!

2024 Application Guide

We release an updated application guide a week prior to opening the grants portal. We encourage every applicant to review it in detail as it outlines a range of important information including:

Collaboration Grant Stream distributed $721,318 in funding to 17 charitable collaborations in 2024

Collaboration Grant Stream recipients