Catherine Donnelly Foundation Spring 2026 Grants

Catherine Donnelly Foundation Spring 2026 Grants: Civic Engagement for Social Change, Environment and Housing

 August 2026

The Catherine Donnelly Foundation provides 38 grants totaling $737,386

Spring 2026 grants from the Catherine Donnelly Foundation encourage transformative solutions that promote civic engagement to foster active citizenship and social transformation, promote a just, green and equitable future and mobilize and advocate for effective housing solutions.

“In 2023, the Foundation listened to grantees, partner organizations and philanthropic peers to develop a plan to offer more multi-year grants, more operational grants, deepen our partnerships, expand relations with Black, Indigenous and People of Colour communities and support organizations traditionally excluded by philanthropy. Three years later, we’ve made significant progress in all those areas,” says Claire Barcik, Executive Director of the Catherine Donnelly Foundation. “Our Spring 2026 granting round responds to equity-deserving groups and supports organizations across the country to move the dial on civic participation and self-directed change, build climate sustainability and justice, and promote secure, sustainable and affordable housing.”

Civic Engagement for Social Change granted $257,886 to 14 organizations promoting transformation and collective power and strengthening intercultural learning and action to promote integration, inclusion, and change. In Vancouver, RADIUS supports refugee and migrant leaders to build power through convening and advocacy, while in Montréal, Éduconnexion centres the voices of Black youth, women, and families affected by violence to build individual resilience and safer, more equitable communities. On Wabanaki Territory in Nova Scotia, Women of First Light received a third grant from CDF to continue the process of transforming a church property into an Indigenous-led hub for healing, education, community building and programming.

Housing granted $284,500 to 13 organizations to eliminate homelessness, strengthen the rights of tenants and develop and promote shared pathways to more co-operative and affordable housing units. The University of Toronto Infrastructure Institute’s National Social Purpose Real Estate Accelerator program offers crucial pre-development support for organizations creating community-focused real estate projects and Winnipeg’s Regenesis Centre for Recovery strengthens recovery-aligned housing pathways for 2SLGBTQIA+ people with lived and living experience of substance use. In St. John, NB, the Centre for Youth Care is advancing a coordinated, housing-focused roadmap to end youth homelessness.

Environment granted $195,000 to 11 organizations to strengthen climate justice leadership, support community climate action and promote climate resilience among Canada’s most vulnerable. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and the Mikisew Cree First Nation in Alberta plan to transition to a community-led, low-carbon economy, while Toronto’s Black Environmental Initiative encourages green jobs, environmental health and climate resilience among Black and other equity-deserving communities. Citizens Climate Lobby Canada, meanwhile, promotes national efforts to engage underrepresented voices in building a more inclusive climate justice movement.

“The Catherine Donnelly Foundation continues to focus on deepening and expanding relationships with our granting partners as well as removing financial uncertainty,” says Anne Mark, Director of Programs. “Apathy is Boring, Faith & the Common Good, New Majority and Territoires solidaires are among the organizations receiving third or fourth grants in this granting round. Beyond that consistent funding, the Foundation has launched a fundraising and communications capacity support pilot through a consultant for our multi-year grantees, offering a workshop followed by one-on-one coaching.”

Find a complete description of all Spring 2026 grants below.

The Catherine Donnelly Foundation’s granting guidelines may be found at https://catherinedonnellyfoundation.org/granting/process/

 

Civic Engagement for Social Change: 14 one-year grants totaling $257,886

Apathy is Boring • BUILD • Montréal, QC (National) • $15,000

Apathy is Boring is a non-partisan, charitable national organization that connects, educates, and activates youth to Canadian democracy, with a particular focus on those facing systemic barriers. Funding supports BUILD, a 14-week popular education program where young adults, ages 18-29, lead democratic innovation that addresses social, environmental, cultural and community development challenges in Canada. Programming will foster critical consciousness, active citizenship, and personal and social transformation by developing participants’ skills, networks and capacity for community-based civic engagement. www.apathyisboring.com

Arts & Health Antigonish • Lighting a Path to Reconciliation Through the Arts • Antigonish, NS • $14,500

Arts & Health Antigonish’s (AHA!) vision is to facilitate social change that recognizes and values the arts as integral to education, healing, individual well-being, and community health. In Lighting a Path to Reconciliation Through the Arts, AHA! will connect Indigenous knowledge keepers, adult immigrants, and local settlers through participatory arts-based activities and reflective arts processes. Together, participants will co-create through a community-led model of intercultural learning that promotes integration, inclusion, and reconciliation in Nova Scotia. www.artshealthantigonish.org

City for All Women Initiative • Your Story is a Catalyst • Ottawa, ON • $18,000

City for All Women (CAWI) works alongside cis & trans women, non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals of diverse lived experiences to build their knowledge, skills and momentum to collectively advocate for economic, political and social justice. Your Story is a Catalyst will create empowering stories of lived experience to encourage collective action and advocacy in municipal affairs, including the 2026 City of Ottawa budget and municipal election. This project utilizes popular education to foster critical consciousness and equip participants with tools for effective advocacy and social change and will strengthen CAWI’s training/courses with deeper incorporation of stories of lived experience. cawi-ivtf.org

CityHive • CityShapers in Communities • Vancouver, BC • $15,000

CityHive is a youth-run not-for-profit that works to create cities where youth are actively involved in civic planning and decision-making. They run a wide range of civic education, climate, and innovation programs for ages 13-30. CityShapers delivers hands-on civics and climate workshops in classrooms and neighbourhood spaces. The program reaches communities that aren’t typically engaged in climate action or civic engagement by partnering with employment programs, newcomer and settlement agencies and other community organizations. In addition to building climate and civic literacy, CityShapers encourages participants to take collective local action. cityhive.ca

Éduconnexion • Social Healing • Montréal, QC • $17,000

Éduconnexion programming is focused on the realities experienced by Black youth, women, families, and organizations, particularly in the areas of education, violence prevention, community leadership, and social justice. The Social Healing project is a two-year initiative in Montréal’s Saint-Michel neighbourhood supporting Black youth, women, and families affected by violence. Through after-school workshops, psychosocial support, and peer mentorship, participants build critical awareness, leadership, and collective strategies. By centering community voices, the project strengthens resilience, agency, and systemic change to create safer, more equitable, and inclusive communities. educonnexion.org

Faith & the Common Good • Diverse Communities of Faith Leading Climate Preparedness • Toronto, ON • $16,886

Faith & the Common Good (FCG) is a national, interfaith charitable network that empowers and inspires diverse religious congregations and spiritual groups across Canada to work collectively toward building more sustainable and resilient communities. Diverse Communities of Faith Leading Climate Preparedness is a climate resilience initiative that engages equity-deserving communities in three faith communities in Toronto and Brampton to collectively identify climate vulnerabilities, develop emergency preparedness strategies, and transform places of worship into community resilience hubs. Community partners include Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW), Jami Mosque, St Matthew’s United Church and Kudrat Di Rakhia. faithcommongood.org

Imagine Canada • Strengthen & Safeguard • Toronto, ON (National) • $20,000

Through advocacy efforts, sector research, capacity-building resources, and services, Imagine Canada supports charities and nonprofits so they can better serve communities across the country. Strengthen & Safeguard is a three-year, national initiative to build shared infrastructure for Canada’s charities and nonprofits to respond to growing political polarization, misinformation and regulatory and funding uncertainty. Imagine Canada will coordinate a networked approach across coalitions, equity-led groups, legal partners and funders to strengthen the nonprofit voice in democracy, build sector cohesion & civic capacity and ensure sustainability & crisis readiness. www.imaginecanada.ca

The Inner Activist • Strengthening Equitable Leadership Infrastructure • Vancouver, BC • $15,000

The Inner Activist delivers training workshops centred on inner transformation, collective power, and systemic analysis to empower those working in community. Through co-created knowledge, participants learn to build sustainable, compassionate and effective social movements. Funding will help expand the accessibility of training sessions, including Conscious Use of Power and Building Personal Mastery, to marginalized and BIPOC participants. www.inneractivist.com/

Migrant Workers Alliance for Change • Deepening roots and growing strength • Toronto, ON (National) • $20,000

The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC) works to build the capacity of migrants — temporary foreign workers, international students, refugees, and undocumented people — so they can act collectively for justice. MWAC is reimagining its political education model to build a bigger, broader, base of migrants with the capacity to resist racism and xenophobia and lead a movement for justice focusing on food, care and expiring residency permits. Funding will support the participation of racialized, low-waged migrants as leaders of a political education process that builds from lived experience to shared political analysis to collective action. www.migrantworkersalliance.org

New Majority • Democracy Sector Strategy • Toronto, ON (National) • $20,000

New Majority is a non-partisan organization focused on increasing civic engagement, particularly among underrepresented young people, by mobilizing democratic participation. Funding will support an ongoing initiative to foster collaboration and stronger collective impact among democracy organizations in Canada. Initial outreach and listening identified that Canada’s democracy is vulnerable and that there is an urgent need to coordinate as a sector, share strategy and stay in relationship to address this moment with evidence-based and proven responses. The next phase of this work will enable the democracy ecosystem to drive toward urgent action, reinforce each other’s work and develop an ecosystem-wide strategy through working groups and an in-person retreat. www.newmajority.ca/

RADIUS • Migrant Systems Change Leadership Program • Vancouver, BC $15,000

RADIUS is a social innovation hub advancing systems change for migrant justice and civic engagement. They build power with communities through leadership development, convening, and advocacy. The Migrant Systems Change Leadership Program brings together 25 refugee and migrant leaders with lived experience of systemic barriers in BC, to co-create tangible and impactful social innovation projects. This program develops equity-centered solutions and encourages change through civic engagement. Participants receive mentorship and social change training. sfu.ca/radius.html

Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership • Saskatoon, SK • $14,500

The Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership is a multi-sector collaboration working to end poverty in Saskatoon. Funding will strengthen their capacity by supporting the ongoing work of the Income and Assets Team in advancing strategies that improve financial stability and reduce barriers to economic inclusion and support the development of community-informed policy through the “Kitchen Table” project. In addition, resources will help advance the Low to No Public Policy Review, identifying and addressing systemic policy barriers that unintentionally deepen poverty for individuals and families. www.endpovertyyxe.ca/

Shake Up The Establishment • Hamilton, ON (National) • $17,000

Shake Up The Establishment (SUTE) advances intersectional environmental and climate justice by fostering civic participation and youth leadership, driving systemic change through non-partisan policy advocacy and shifting public narratives through creative, arts-based campaigns. Funding from the Catherine Donnelly Foundation will support SUTE’s operating and programming infrastructure and sustain ongoing work engaging communities, amplifying youth voices in public discourse, and shifting public narratives through collaborative campaigns and educational initiatives. www.shakeuptheestab.org

Women of First Light • Land Rematriation • Wabanaki Territory • $40,000

After a groundbreaking reconciliation initiative where ownership of the Tatamagouche Centre was transferred from the United Church of Canada to Mi’kmaw-led stewardship, Women of First Light will work to restore the sacred relationships between Indigenous people and their ancestral land. Funding will support the next steps of the Land Rematriation project which will strengthen the governance and leadership capacity of Women of First Light and share educational tools that extend the reach of the work. Grounded in spirit and ceremony the project will secure Tatamagouche Centre’s future as an Indigenous-led hub for healing, education, and community building and programming. www.womenoffirstlight.com

Environment: 11 one-year grants totaling $195,000

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Mikisew Cree First Nation • Transition to a community-led, low-carbon economy • Fort Chipewyan, AB • $25,000

The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and the Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) are Treaty 8 Nations in Fort Chipewyan, northeastern Alberta. Since the 1960s, the oil sands industry has operated in their territories, with negative impacts on the climate as well as their lands, health, and ability to exercise their Indigenous rights. Funding will support plans to transition to a community-led, low-carbon economy. Initial work will focus on understanding the needs of their members and nations for a just transition and the subsequent drafting of an economic development plan that will respect their rights, identify sustainable economic opportunities, restore the land, and build a low-carbon future beyond the oil sands industry.

Black Environmental Initiative • Toronto, ON • $25,000

Since 2019, the Black Environmental Initiative (BEI) has led successful environmental initiatives in Black and other equity-deserving communities with a focus on environmental education, green jobs, environmental health and climate resilience and community energy. Operational funding will support the continued implementation and coordination of BEI’s core program areas through the end of 2026, including Roots for Resilience (urban agriculture), Beyond Provision Grounds (urban forestry), and emerging initiatives in health equity and green jobs. It will also strengthen BEI’s overall organizational capacity and operational sustainability and advance their charitable status application. www.beinitiative.com

BizforClimate • Building a Sustainable Platform for Business Climate Leadership • Winnipeg, MB $15,000

BizforClimate is a growing coalition of businesses committed to promoting climate solutions and advocating for policies to transition to net zero. They address a gap in Canada’s advocacy ecosystem: mobilizing a powerful new constituency of companies of all sizes and from all sectors to move business from individual to collective climate action. Funding will support staff to transform BizforClimate from a coalition of 250 affiliated Manitoba pledge signatories into a National coordinated membership community participating in collective action to enable ambitious climate policy. bizforclimate.com/

Calgary Climate Hub • Calgary, AB • $15,000

The Calgary Climate Hub is a volunteer-led charity that unites a diverse group of Calgarians committed to working together to support meaningful local action on climate change. Funds will be directed toward operating support that includes the delivery of the Collective Care, Community Power: Mutual Aid for Climate Justice project, an initiative offering mutual aid workshops and gatherings with equity deserving communities to strengthen civic capacity and climate justice leadership. www.calgaryclimatehub.ca

Citizens Climate Lobby Canada • Expanding Volunteer Support for Climate Leadership and Advocacy • Sudbury, ON (National) • $15,000

Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada (CCL Canada) is a non-partisan, grassroots organization dedicated to building political will for effective and socially just climate policies, one riding at a time. They train and support volunteers to meet with elected officials, build relationships with community leaders, engage local media, and collaborate across sectors to accelerate climate action. The Foundation will support the funding of two part-time staff positions to strengthen their national operations, deepen support for their 41 active chapters and expand their ability to engage underrepresented voices in building a more inclusive climate justice movement. www.citizensclimatelobby.org

Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) (MakeWay) • Toronto, ON • $20,000

Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) is based in the St. James Town neighbourhood of Toronto and is dedicated to inspiring and enabling community-led multi-generational, multi-stakeholder networking that increases awareness of local climate change impacts and promotes local resiliencies, especially for the vulnerable. Funding will support the piloting of “hyper-local resilience hubs” to help communities adapt to projected weather extremes and respond to weather-related emergencies and work with other climate leaders to replicate the model in communities across Canada. www.crewresilience.ca

Environment North • Environmental and Climate Change Intern Program • Thunder Bay, ON • $10,000

Environment North strives to improve and protect the ecological sustainability and socio-economic well-being of Northwestern Ontario through leadership, research, partnerships, education, community advocacy, information and community capacity building. Current areas of focus include Climate Change, Forestry and Mining, Nuclear Waste and Community Resilience. Funding will support the creation of a youth environmental and climate change intern program designed to increase environmental and climate literacy through weekly workshops, foster a deeper connection to nature through place-based programming that draws from principles of Indigenous knowledge and encourages civic engagement and environmental advocacy skills. www.environmentnorth.ca

Finance Engage Sustain • Montréal, QC (National) • $15,000

Finance Engage Sustain (FES) is a youth-led, youth-serving organization working to empower youth, change lifestyles, and amplify powerful youth projects to create a sustainable future. They provide training, resources, and other supports to develop, sustain and grow youth-led climate projects across Canada. The Foundation will provide operational support for programming, including Youth Harbour – an initiative dedicated to building climate-resilient communities through financial, technical, and networking assistance to youth-led climate movements. www.fesplanet.org

Skills for Change • Youth Climate Action Initiative • Toronto, ON • $15,000

Skills for Change (SfC) provides immigration, settlement, workforce development and community-building programs and services for newcomers, refugees, and underserved communities in Canada. Funding is directed toward the Youth Climate Action Initiative, an education and leadership development program for 40 racialized, newcomer, and underserved youth (ages 16–30) in the Greater Toronto Area. Over 16+ weeks, the program will focus on civic literacy, climate justice, advocacy, and network building to build knowledge, skills, and confidence. Participants will access mentorship and networking opportunities with BIPOC leaders. www.skillsforchange.org

Sustainability Network • Decolonizing Ambassadors • Toronto, ON (National) • $25,000

Sustainability Network works with environmental non-profits to strengthen leadership. Drawing from the nearly 450 individuals who participated in the Decolonizing ENGO-First Nations Partnerships, Decolonizing Ambassadors will support up to ten environmental leaders with work plans tailored to each participant’s project and/or ENGO culture. The focus is on developing leadership skills, raising their public profile and achieving measurable decolonization objectives within their organizations and as a cohort. www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca

Urban Climate Leadership (MakeWay) • Keep it Cool • Vancouver, BC • $15,000

Urban Climate Leadership (UCL) is a Pan-Canadian collaborative focused on removing obstacles for cities, local governments, and Indigenous-led communities to accelerate equitable climate action. Funding will assist UCL in delivering community-informed climate communications, learning, and leadership dialogue initiatives in Toronto and area that treat equity as a core design principle. Keep it Cool: Advancing the Right to Cool with African, Caribbean & Black Women Communities in Toronto & GTHA will focus on mid-career, caregiving, and community-anchored African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) women aged 35 and over. Engagement will be grounded in care, focused on structured learning and sensemaking that can inform future engagement and decision making. www.urbanclimateleadership.org

Housing: 13 one-year grants totaling $284,500

Calgary Alliance for the Common Good • Community Organizing for Housing • Calgary, AB • $24,500

The Calgary Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is a community-organizing alliance comprising 28 faith, labour, ethnocultural, and educational organizations. CACG’s members have identified affordable housing as a critical issue in their communities and funding will support the creation of staff positions to support the development and implementation of a campaign to address affordable housing. Work will include identifying necessary changes to expand affordable housing units and rental supports, creating a communications strategy focused on public education and advocacy, expanding the diversity of organizations and communities involved in the issue and developing the capacity of communities to effectively lead this and future affordable housing campaigns. www.calgarycommongood.org

Caroline Co-op • Durand Neighbourhood Land Trust Co-operative • Hamilton, ON • $20,000

Caroline Co-op is a non-profit housing co-operative located in downtown Hamilton. The co-op was established in 2024, when the tenants fundraised to purchase their building from the landlord and convert it from market rentals to non-profit ownership. Caroline Co-op members wish to build on that recent success by establishing the Durand Neighbourhood Land Trust to replicate and scale their work in Hamilton. The Durand land trust will be a vehicle to purchase at-risk buildings and convert them to non-profit housing co-ops. Funding is directed toward foundational work, including governance and outreach. www.carolinecooperative.com

Centre for Youth Care • Ending Youth Homelessness • Saint John, NB • $30,000

Centre for Youth Care (CYC) provides safe, nurturing, and inclusive support where children and youth can thrive. Among their programs and services are a network of 11+ youth care homes, a youth rapid response shelter, youth supportive housing programs, and comprehensive case management and outreach services. CYC, in partnership with youth-serving agencies, government departments, and youth with lived experience, is advancing a coordinated, prevention-driven, housing-focused roadmap that addresses homelessness when most people first experience it: before the age of 25. Funding will advance this strategy, with a focus on strengthening system capacity, alignment, integrating the soon-to-open Mitchener Village, bachelor apartments for youth ages 19–25, and operationalizing a Housing First for Youth approach that can be replicated in other Canadian communities. www.cycinc.ca

Evangel Hall Mission • Unlocking Faith-Based Land for Affordable Housing • Toronto, ON • $20,000

Evangel Hall Mission (EHM) is a community service agency that supports individuals experiencing poverty, homelessness, and social isolation in Toronto in the areas of housing and financial instability. Funding will support the development of a business plan to map the process by which EHM can assume management of underused properties owned by the Presbyterian Church in Canada to transform them into long-term supported and affordable rental housing. This project is distinctive in that it moves beyond exploring feasibility to produce a governance and operating model specifically designed for church non-profit asset transfer in Ontario, an area where few documented, replicable frameworks currently exist. www.evangelhall.ca

Mahone Bay Community Land Co-operative • Scaling What Works: Co-operative Housing as a Just Response to the Housing Crisis • Mahone Bay, NS • $15,000

Mahone Bay Community Land Co-operative (MBCLC) is a non-profit working to expand access to permanently affordable, secure, and healthy housing in Mahone Bay and surrounding communities in the South Shore of Nova Scotia/Mi’kma’ki. MBCLC has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Town of Mahone Bay to explore non-profit co-operative housing opportunities, including the development of a 30-40 unit mixed-income, mixed-demographic housing co-operative on public land. MBCLC has additionally been approached to partner on three other projects in neighbouring communities. Funding is directed at strengthening organizational and sector capacity by building co-op membership, developing and implementing a Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Justice strategy, designing public education campaigns, strengthening collaboration and movement-building and developing a pipeline of non-profit co-operative housing opportunities. www.mahonebayco-op.ca

Neighbourhood Legal Services • Keeping the Door Open • Toronto, ON • $30,000

Neighbourhood Legal Services is a community legal aid clinic committed to advancing fairness and dignity by providing free legal services, advocacy, and education to low-income individuals in Toronto’s Downtown East. Keeping the Door Open will design a practical, cross-sector pilot framework to prevent eviction-driven homelessness among disabled tenants in social and supportive housing. It will map the most significant barriers, convene legal, health, housing, and lived-experience partners and produce a pilot-ready model for a Housing and Health Equity Hub. www.nlstoronto.org

Regenesis Centre for Recovery • Strengthening Recovery-Aligned Housing Pathways for 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities • Winnipeg, MB • $15,000

Regenesis is a non-profit live-in recovery facility that prioritizes the inclusion of traditionally underserved groups such as women and gender-diverse individuals from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, as well as those self-identifying as racial equity seeking and/or those with disabilities. This project seeks to strengthen recovery-aligned housing pathways for 2SLGBTQIA+ people with lived and living experience of substance use by building cross-sector capacity, collaboration, and shared practice across housing, addiction care, and community support organizations. Key activities include a review of relevant policy and practice, community-led engagement through facilitated conversations and translating learning into coordinated action. www.regenesisrecovery.com

Solidarity Economy Incubation for Zero Emissions (SEIZE) (National) • National Tenant Organizing Fund • Montréal, QC • $20,000

SEIZE (Solidarity Economy Incubation for Zero Emissions) advances a just and democratic economy by incubating community-led initiatives that build collective ownership, shared governance, and community power. SEIZE is incubating The National Tenant Organizing Fund (NTOF), a tenant-led national fund dedicated to building grassroots tenant organizing capacity. The NTOF distributes flexible grants to tenant unions, tenant-led groups, and tenant-organizing collectives, prioritizing those in under-resourced and emerging areas. Funded activities include campaign materials, leadership training, cross-regional coordination, and research/data infrastructure to support groups documenting housing conditions and informing policy. www.solidarityeconomy.ca  housingjustice.now/tenant-fund

Solid State Affordable Housing Society • Surrey, BC • $20,000

Solid State Community Industries (SSCI) has built a network of nearly 40 worker co-ops with racialized migrant communities in co-operation with over 220 members from 37 national backgrounds. Solid State is focused on building stable, living-wage jobs, but without access to secure and affordable housing, the communities they serve are continuously displaced and their economic mobility compromised. SSCI launched the Solid State Affordable Housing Society, a separate incorporated non-profit, to seek housing solutions. Working with a developer with strong interest in providing below-market units for refugees, funding for the Affordable Housing Society will provide operational support for outreach and assessment of potential refugee tenants, and then offer ongoing tenant support, education, and social activation in the buildings. www.solidstate.house

Territoires solidaires • From Land to Commons: Structuring and Scaling Community Land Trusts in Québec • Port-Joli, QC • $30,000

Territoires solidaires has successfully piloted a community land trust (CLT) in Brome-Missisquoi and is supporting initiatives in Laval and Memphrémagog. From Land to Commons aims to scale the CLT model across Québec to support the sector-wide goal of achieving 20% non-profit housing. The project will develop and disseminate transferable legal, financial, outreach/ and governance tools, strengthen partnerships across housing, community, public, and financial sectors and expand the organizational capacity of Territoires solidaires to support the creation, management, and scaling of CLTs across multiple territories. www.territoiressolidaires.ca

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul London Particular Council • Documenting principles and processes for deeply affordable housing • London, ON • $15,000

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul London Particular Council (SSVP London) is a volunteer-led and -run charity that runs two thrift stores and provides individuals experiencing poverty with food. In response to the chronic and acute affordable housing crisis, the SSVP London secured land from the Diocese of London, raised funds and began construction of a 73-unit apartment building designed to provide safe, stable housing for individuals and families in need. The first tenants are expected early in 2027. Funds will be used to develop and document principles and processes to serve the tenants and the organization. A model and operating framework will also be created that can be replicated for the next deeply affordable housing project and shared with other organizations. www.ssvplondon.ca

University of Toronto – Infrastructure Institute • Groundwork Initiative: Organization Readiness & Social Purpose Real Estate (SPRE) National Accelerator • Toronto, ON (National) • $20,000

In the fall of 2025, a National Social Purpose Real Estate Accelerator program was launched to support groups developing social purpose real estate projects with a confirmed site or partnership in place and in search of support through the pre-development phase of a project. SPRE provides structured learning, mentorship, peer networks, and practical tools to help organizations move from concept to project readiness. Beginning Fall 2026, the program will expand to include a six-week Organizational Readiness stream, followed by the six-month Accelerator each January. Funding will provide operational support for the initiative. www.infrastructureinstitute.ca

West Broadway Community Organization • West Broadway Community Land Trust Capacity Building • Winnipeg, MB • $25,000

West Broadway Community Organization (WBCO) is a not-for-profit working to coordinate and support social, economic, and environmental development efforts in Winnipeg’s West Broadway neighbourhood. Funding will support initial capacity building to establish a West Broadway Community Land Trust (WBCLT) into an organization that will steward and protect disappearing affordable housing in West Broadway. A newly hired project manager will engage community in developing a governance structure, building financial security and creating partnerships to enter asset-management agreements with housing providers to preserve affordable and deeply affordable housing. www.westbroadway.mb.ca