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Community Service Project Grants
We support local, innovative, specific community projects!
Your non-profit organization or registered charity may be eligible for one of our Community Service Project Grants!
The main objective of Rotary is service to the community and beyond and the Rotary Motto is “Service Above Self.” The Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston has a lengthy history of awarding grants to local community organizations in support of specific projects designed to address the needs within the greater Kingston area. In the past, we have supported projects addressing many of today’s critical issues, including children and youth at risk, poverty and hunger, food literacy, special needs children, education and literacy, and, more recently, the environment.
Twice yearly, Spring and Fall, our C-K Rotary Club invites submissions from local registered non-profit organizations and registered charitable organizations for grant proposals to fund innovative specific projects that will benefit and strengthen the community. All proposed projects must be aligned with the Guiding Principles of Rotary and at least one of Rotary International’s Causes:
- Peace and Conflict Resolution
- Disease Prevention and Treatment
- Providing Clean Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
- Maternal and Child Health
- Basic Education and Literacy
- Economic and Community Development (I.e., providing sustainable solutions to poverty)
- Preserving the Environment
Your grant application must also demonstrate the importance of our funding to the viability of your project and show that, through your project, the community would have an asset that it would not have otherwise.
GRANT CATEGORIES
- REGULAR COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT GRANTS
There is no set number. The number of regular grants awarded varies from year to year, depending on the quality of proposed projects and funds available in any given year.
- COMMUNITY SERVICE MINI-GRANTS (2 available, max $500 each)
Mini-Grants are designed to provide limited financial support for new small-scale initiatives for non-profit organizations or groups.
A. Community Service New Initiative Mini-Grant: Open to new and existing organizations with plans to launch a new small-scale or pilot project.
B. Community Service School-Based Mini-Grant: Open to both High Schools and Elementary Schools, under the supervision of a Teacher Supervisor, for a community service activity; intended for Student Clubs or Project Groups.
APPLICATION GUIDELINES
- All applications must be submitted online on the appropriate application form. (There are 3.)
- Read the Application Form carefully. If you do not provide ALL the information requested, we may disqualify your application. However, we may request additional details or clarification from the contact person during our assessment of your application.
- All the information required is indicated on the online application form.
- Budget and financial data must also be submitted, in MS Excel or CSV format. The online form allows you to upload these documents.
- Successful project applicants will be notified by email or phone by a representative of the Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston as soon as possible after the application deadline.
- Successful project applicants must be willing to maintain regular communication with the club about the project as it unfolds and to provide a detailed follow-up report along with a detailed financial statement to the Club not later than 12 months following receipt of the grant. A presentation to our club members may be requested.
- Please note that failure to provide this follow-up reporting may eliminate your organization from future consideration for grants from the Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston.
- Please give careful consideration to how the Rotary Club of Cataraqui-Kingston and its members might work with your organization and its people on an ongoing basis to ensure the success of your project. We are particularly interested in developing partnerships that will extend beyond the project.
PLEASE NOTE:
- Only proposals for SPECIFIC PROJECTS will be considered.
- We do not provide grants to fundraising campaigns.
- We do not provide funding for operating costs.
- We do not provide funds for gift cards.
- We do not award grants to individuals.
- Items produced with grant funds must not be sold, although voluntary donations for same are permissible.
- Grant funds may be used only as specified in the grant proposal.
- Applicant organizations must have a bank account in the name of their organization; grant cheques cannot be made out to an individual or individuals.
FAQs and APPLICATION FORMS: