Indigenous Reconciliation Fund Archdiocese Application for Project Funding

The Archdiocese seeks to support as many communities and applicants as possible on this journey of healing and reconciliation. We have revamped our application form to make things more focused.

As part of the Church’s efforts, and to support applicants to succeed, we are available to discuss your proposed idea before you begin writing. Please email Kevin Barlow at kbarlow@rcav.org.

A reminder that typically, our grants are under $50,000, and one year at a time, but there may be exceptions.

Learn more: rcav.org/indigenous-peoples/reconciliation-fund

A. Who is Applying?

Contact Information:
1. Applicant:

Agency/Community:(Required)

Contact Person(Required)

First Last

Role(Required)

Address(Required)

Street Address City Province Postal Code

Phone(Required)

Email(Required)

2. Where will your project take place, if not at the address above?

3. Is your group/organization Indigenous led (meaning decisions and direction is provided by a majority of Indigenous people)?(Required)

Yes

If you are not an Indigenous led organization, please describe your direct connections with an Indigenous community/agency and provide letter(s) of support/partnership.(Required)

Letter(s) of Support/Partnership(Required)

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Accepted file types: pdf, Max. file size: 512 MB.

4. Do you have a charitable number?(Required)

Yes

CRA #(Required)

If no, please provide the name and charitable number of a qualified donee who will be your fiscal host agency and receive funds on your behalf, including a letter of agreement from them:

Name of Fiscal Host(Required)

CRA #(Required)

Contact Information of Fiscal Host/Qualified Donee:

Fiscal Host Agency(Required)

Contact Person(Required)

Role(Required)

Address(Required)

Street Address City Province Postal Code

Phone(Required)

Email(Required)

Note: A qualified donee is an organization that can issue official donation receipts for gifts/donations it receives for tax purposes. If you are partnering with an agency who will receive the funds on your behalf, please provide a letter of agreement from that agency. First Nations are viewed by the CRA as being a government body and thus a qualified donee without needing a CRA #.

Letter of Agreement(Required)

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Accepted file types: pdf, Max. file size: 512 MB.

B. About Your Project

5. Project Title(Required)

6. Please check which category best fits your project (you may choose more than one). Healing and Reconciliation for:(Required)

Communities and Families
(Examples: Healing/talking circles; grief and loss workshops; gender-specific healing activities; healing from sexual abuse; healing from domestic/intimate partner violence; memorial-related activities for missing and murdered Indigenous women/girls or men/boys; events such as for Orange Shirt Day, etc.)

Healing Event(s)
(Examples: Reconciliation walks; healing gathering, healing/wellness day; Orange Shirt Day or National Indigenous People’s Day activities; bridge building activities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, including faith communities, etc.)

Culture Revitalization
(Examples: Elder/Youth targeted activities; hiring someone to teach regalia making and associated teachings; arts therapy, hiring someone to teach medicine pickings and their usages; Culture Camps, on-the-land healing, etc.)

Language Revitalization
(Examples: Documenting/recording Indigenous language speakers; language classes/labs, etc. (We may also consider topping up funding shortfalls if funded by governments for language programs.)

Education and Community-Building
(Examples: Youth-targeted capacity-building programming, such as leadership skills; On-the-land healing; awareness related activities to increase understanding of the impacts of Residential Schools, and more importantly, how to heal those impacts; culture camps to strengthen community responses and connection to the lands and waters; reconciliation events between Indigenous and non-Indigenous or religious communities; etc.)

Other

Note: The preceding examples are not meant to tell you what to apply for, they are meant to better help us understand what type of project you are seeking support for. Some examples also can fit under multiple categories.

If "Other" is selected, please specify in 1-2 sentences or less:(Required)

7. Have you applied to other funding sources?(Required)

Yes

If so, have you been partially funded? If yes, please share with who and the financial amount of support.(Required)

8. Please provide the start and end dates for your project:(Required)

This is a:(Required)

one-time activity

recurring annual activity

expansion of previous activity

ongoing activity

10. Project Description (We are interested in how you hope to do your healing and reconciliation work; what benefits you hope to achieve; what types of resource people you might need; who your target audience is, etc.)(Required)

1000 words or less

11. Demonstration of Need: We are interested to see what needs you want to address through this grant. For example, if you say you are losing your language, tell us how many fluent speakers are in your community; how the language is at risk of being lost, etc.(Required)

500 words or less

C. Budget Template

When filling this out please think about how the budget relates to the work you will be doing, for example: what is the duration for the initiative, how are you going to use the funds, what do you need to purchase, and are you paying people (example: salaries or honorariums); do you need to rent space or take people by boat or car to the venue hosting the activities, etc. Note: Travel cannot be used for attending conferences, must be program-based.

Category
Example: Honorarium

Description of Expense
Facilitator fees for 2 people

Amount
$1000.00

Salaries & Benefits

Amount

Contractors (daily rate)

Amount

Honoraria

Amount

Rental costs

Amount

Phone/Internet

Amount

Office materials/supplies

Amount

Program materials/supplies

Amount

Printing/Promotion costs

Amount

Travel (invited speakers/facilitators)

Amount

Food/Catering

Amount

Gifting Participants/Dignitaries

Amount

Other Category

Amount

Other Category

Amount

Other Category

Amount

SUBTOTAL

Before admin fees

10% Admin

e.g. Covers share of phones, office space, utilities, bookkeeping, etc.

Amount

GRAND TOTAL

After admin fees

If you have other or partial funding from other sources, please state the amount and describe your shortfall:

e.g. We got $75,000 from Canadian Heritage to develop a language app, but need an additional $30,000 to finish it.

Total amount from other sources

Please provide your most recent audited financial statements (or your fiscal host agency).

Audited Financial Statements

Fiscal Host Agency

Audited Financial Statements(Required)

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Accepted file types: pdf, Max. file size: 512 MB.

Fiscal Host Agency(Required)

TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED FROM RCAV: