The Prince Edward Island (PEI) Alliance Mental Well-Being has announced a call for applications for the Stream 2 (Innovation Grants) of Positive Change Grant Program.
PEI-based not-for-profit organizations can apply for Innovation Grants that provide up to $50,000 in one-time funding, for projects of up to 18-months that develop and assess new approaches or new ideas that build resilience and improve mental well-being across the life span and across generations.
Funding Information
Up to $250,000 total is available in 2022-2023 for this funding stream.
PEI-based not-for-profit organizations can apply for Innovation Grants that provide up to $50,000 in one-time funding, for projects of up to 18-months that develop and assess new approaches or new ideas that build resilience and improve mental well- being across the life span and across generations.
Grant funds may be used to cover the following eligible expenses:
Training and professional development
Convening meetings and events, including facility rentals and remote meeting costs
Transportation within PEI
Research, evaluation, and dissemination activities
Wages* and fees (eg, consultants, trainers, expertise not available in the community, honoraria)
Promotional and marketing activities directly related to the project
Reasonable overhead, capital, infrastructure costs directly related to the project to a maximum of 10% of the total grant
Costs associated with the grant’s financial reporting requirements
Eligibility Criteria
PEI-based not-for-profit organizations, from all regions and sectors throughout the province. All other types of organizations must apply in partnership with a PEI-based not-for-profit organization.
Partner organizations can include, but are not limited to, businesses, publicly funded entities such as municipalities, schools, and post-secondary institutions, health units, etc.
The Applicant Organization is the not-for-profit organization that will hold the grant funds.
The Project Lead is the main contact from the Applicant Organization who will lead the project.
Individuals are not eligible to apply.
Eligibility is restricted to organizations operating within PEI.
If justified to meet the objectives of the project, the applicant team may include a team member(s) from outside PEI if such team member(s) brings expertise and capacity to the project that is not available in the province (eg, research and /or evaluation expertise). A team member(s) from outside PEI is not eligible to be the Project Lead.
As the lead Applicant Organization, a not-for-profit organization may submit only one application in a funding cycle, and up to two per year (the Alliance offers two funding cycles per year, one in the summer and one in the winter ).
