The City of Toronto’s Indigenous Affairs Office invites Indigenous-led grassroots groups and collectives to apply for capacity-building grants, which can be used to create new projects, enhance existing programs or improve group operations.
Groups can apply for one grant of up to $20,000. There is a total of $450,000 available for this year’s grant program.
Who Can Apply
- Must be an Indigenous-led* grassroots group or collective.**
- Grassroots groups or collectives must have a bank account in their group name to receive the funds or have a trustee.
- Programs and activities must operate on a not-for-profit basis and take place in Toronto.
- Groups that previously received a Capacity-Building Grant for Indigenous-led Grassroots Groups and Collectives in 2022 can apply for a second grant in 2023 once their current project is completed and their final report is submitted.
- Collectives or grassroots groups with City of Toronto staff members cannot apply.
- Funds cannot be used for fundraising events, donations to charitable, political or religious organizations, or debt repayment/deficit funding.
- Grant recipients will be required to sign the Declaration of Compliance of Anti-Harassment/Discrimination City Policy.
* Indigenous-led groups have a majority of leadership that self-identify as First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis. For example, two out of three or four out of seven members of a collective must be First Nations, Inuit or Métis. At least 50 per cent of membership is First Nations, Inuit or Métis.
** Grassroots groups or collectives have two or more community members working together under a group name either on a single project or on an ongoing basis
Application Process
Applications for 2023 are now closed.
