Applications are now open for the Community Board Grant.
The TELUS Community Boards provide a collaborative and unique funding model enabling local community leaders to make recommendations on grants supporting youth across Canada. Canadian registered charities that offer community-based health, education or technology programs for youth are eligible to apply.
Funding Information
Your program will achieve success with a single-year grant of up to $20,000, with the exception of the TELUS Barrie & Simcoe County Community Board whose maximum grant is $10,000
Funding Criteria
To qualify for funding, your organization meets the following criteria:
Your organization is a Canada Revenue Agency registered charity located and operating within a TELUS Community Board region with a stated focus on serving youth
Your programs create measurable community health and technology outcomes
Your organization has not applied to any TELUS Friendly Future Foundation funding channel more than once per calendar year and your organization has not received a grant from any TELUS Friendly Future Foundation funding channel within the past 24 months
Requests considered ineligible for TELUS Community Board Grants include:
Fiduciary intermediary relationships, where a non-profit organization leverages the charitable status of another registered charity
Community-based programs of religious organizations that are unable to show a history of non-denominational participation by the broader community
Programs with an active grant application to any other funding channel of the TELUS Friendly Future Foundation
Requests for TELUS products and services or laptops, tablets and mobile phones
Requests for sponsorships, advertising, retroactive funding and international programs
Requests for capital campaigns, endowments or debt reduction campaigns
