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To help build strong communities in Vancouver, the City offers a range of funding for non-profit social service groups, neighbourhood organizations, and non-profit sporting groups, in the form of grants.

There are grants available for operating childcare centres, providing services to at-risk communities, small-scale renovations to facilities, important sporting events, and more.

Review the list of available grants, below, and click any link to learn about eligibility requirements, and to find out how to apply.

Here are our available community services grants

Childcare Enhancement Grants

Provides funds to non-profit organizations to support new and existing daycares.

Childcare Program Development Grants

Provides funds to licensed non-profit daycares to help cover costs for starting new programs or expanding existing ones.

Childcare Program Stabilization Grants

Provides funds for non-profit daycare centres facing financial emergencies, to help them strengthen their cash flow and better manage their money.

Childcare Research, Policy Development, and Innovation Grants Program

Provides support for research, policy, and projects to enhance childcare and to look at important related issues.

Direct Social Services Grants

Provides funding to non-profit organizations which are working to address specific social problems and bring about positive social change.

Funding from Other Agencies

Find out where to search for other funding sources from local, provincial, and federal agencies and foundations that provide support to non-profit organizations and other groups.

Hastings Legacy Fund

Provide support for social services in the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood.

Homelessness Action Week Grants

Provides funding to non-profit community groups to host an event or do a project during Homelessness Action Week that directly benefits people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Neighbourhood Organization Grants

Provides funding to neighbourhood-based organizations (primarily neighbourhood houses) that are working to address social problems and bring about positive social change.

Organizational Capacity Building Grants

Provides funding to non-profit organizations which help other non-profits serve their clients better.

Social Policy Capital Grants Program

Provides support for non-profit community services and childcare organizations to help them renovate or expand facilities in Vancouver.

Sport Hosting Grants

Provides financial support for sporting events that might bring significant direct and indirect economic, social, health, and community development benefits to Vancouver

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