COVID-19 Emergency Community Support Fund
2nd Round Grant Call
Local Love starts when we help one another
Applications for these funding opportunities open October 5, 2020 until October 30 at 5 PM.
The COVID-19 outbreak is having a tremendous impact on many of our community members and continues leaving them more at-risk than ever to economic insecurity and hunger and increased mental health vulnerabilities due to social isolation. We’re here to help.
As part of Employment and Social Development Canada’s Emergency Community Support Fund, United Way British Columbia is supporting local community service organizations to provide rapid, innovative emergency community support to vulnerable community members. We call this local love.
Funds ranging from $10,000 to $35,000 are available to community agencies from Sea to Sky Corridor/Metro Vancouver/Fraser Valley and must be expended and activities starting December 1, 2020 and completed by March 31, 2021.
Applicants can receive funding from other sources, including ECSF grants from local community foundations or Red Cross. However, the same budget item cannot be covered by two separate ECSF grants for the same project. To help avoid confusion between different funders and to help distribute the funding available as widely as possible, we ask that:
- If you are unsure of whether to apply to United Way, your local community foundation or Red Cross, refer to this infographic for more information.
- If you are looking to obtain disease transmission training and/or PPE supplies for your staff and volunteers, then please apply to the Canadian Red Cross.
If your organization is providing services outside of the Sea to Sky Corridor/Metro Vancouver/Fraser Valley, and you are not currently supported by another United Way, please click here for more information.
Si vous avez des questions ou souhaitez présenter une demande de financement au Fonds d’urgence pour l’appui communautaire en français, veuillez communiquer avec nous à FUAC-demande@centraide.ca.
Is your organization ensuring vulnerable populations have access to food?
In communities across the Sea to Sky Corridor/Metro Vancouver/Fraser Valley, more and more people are at risk of hunger due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many remain vulnerable because of mass lay-offs and underemployment.
We are offering funding opportunities to address the local food security needs of vulnerable populations including but not limited to: children and youth, Indigenous peoples, minority, homeless and low income communities, persons with disabilities, and seniors.
Can your organization increase access to healthy, local, sustainable, culturally diverse food for vulnerable populations?
To request an application form, click here. If you have further questions please email those to MayaG@uwbc.ca.
Is your organization supporting women, youth and families?
Children, youth, and women living across the Sea to Sky Corridor/Metro Vancouver/Fraser Valley are facing a very different world than they were six months ago. Rapid change, heightened uncertainty about what the future holds and social isolation are affecting youth mental health and well-being.
We are offering funding opportunities to address the mental health needs of vulnerable children, youth and women in racialized and marginalized communities experiencing increased levels of vulnerability.
Can your organization increase access to community-based mental health and wellness supports?
To request an application form, click here. If you have further questions please email those to MayaG@uwbc.ca.
How to apply
To request an application form, click here.
Want more information?
Visit our Emergency Community Support Fund FAQs.
Funded by the Government of Canada.