Community and social service grants for non-profit organizations

Healthy City Strategy grants are investments that contribute to a healthy city.

They support non-profit community-based services that facilitate the physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being of people, and:

• Are co-developed and governed collaboratively with and by the communities and individuals they serve
• Respond to dynamic community needs
• Reduce the impact of systemic factors that create conditions of vulnerability
• Facilitate partnerships between the city, other levels of government, business, and non-profits
• Inform and respond to Council priorities

• Accountability: We embrace ongoing feedback loops with partners to understand City investments and how they influence change.
• Equity and inclusion: We strive to build equity in our communities by making grant processes accessible, especially for groups that experience exclusion.
• Transparency: We are open, transparent, and consistent with our grant making processes.
• Informed decision-making: We inform our grant making using evidence-based research, and consider all data sources, both formal and informal.
• Balanced investment approach: We balance short, medium and long-term investments so that, while addressing immediate concerns, we never lose sight of our goal of effecting lasting systems change.
• Diversity and reconciliation: Our grants recognize the unique strengths of our many diverse communities by fostering relationships, helping heal the past, and moving forward with shared understanding and respect – working with the context of Vancouver as the unceded homeland of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.  
• Strategic alignment: Our grants demonstrate alignment with Healthy City Strategy goals and related initiatives.
• Partnerships: Our relationships with our community and funding partners are based on trust, respect and transparency.