Do you have a simple, creative idea for how to make your community a better place? There could be a grant for that.
That’s the message Vancouver Foundation, North Shore Neighbourhood House, and the West Vancouver Community Foundation are putting forward in an effort to get North Shore residents to apply for Neighbourhood Small Grants intended to bring people together and improve the overall community.
The grants provide from $50 to $500 for local residents to strengthen their communities through a unique idea or project intended to share skills and knowledge, build a sense of belonging and responsibility, and celebrate diversity, notes a release from the Vancouver Foundation.
Past ideas have included clothing swaps, potlucks, art workshops, community garden spaces, and neighbourhood walking tours.
This year the program seeks to prioritize projects and ideas that connect Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members, as well as projects led by young people ages 18-24, the release states.
“Through being a part of the Neighbourhood Small Grants program we have come to realize that a small invite to connect with each other is the seed to lifelong connection and support,” states North Shore Neighbourhood House program co-ordinator Tricia Alsop in the release.
The Neighbourhood Small Grants program was created by Vancouver Foundation in 1999 and has since grown to reach more communities throughout the province.
Local volunteers will review the ideas submitted and decide which ones to fund.
The deadline to apply is April 9.
For more information on the Neighbourhoods Small Grants program or to apply visit neighbourhoodsmallgrants.ca.
