North Coast Regional District opens application period for COVID-19 Safe Restart grants towards services for vulnerable populations

An opportunity for volunteer or non-profit organizations in the North Coast Regional District to gain access to some COVID-19 restart grant money is now available, with the NCRD hosting an application period until the end of the month.

The Regional District has put in place a program to offer up to a maximum of 10,000 dollars in financial assistance per applicant in support of volunteer and non-profits in the region. 

The focus of the program is in support for those groups or organizations in their delivery of core community services, or those delivering services to vulnerable populations.

Towards some guidance on the program opportunity, Regional District has noted of the scope of what they will be viewing as 'vulnerable populations' towards the grant allocation.

For the purposes of this policy, “vulnerable populations” means communities in the NCRD that experience physical, economic and social barriers that would typically include those living in poverty (i.e. low income cut-off) and diverse marginalized groups who are at risk of being socially excluded to inclusion, such as seniors, youth, indigenous, veterans, visible minorities, women, LGTBQ2+, low income, unemployed, single parent families, newcomers to the NCRD, individuals living with a disability, experiencing homelessness or from an official language minority community.

The North Coast Regional District has some further background on the program providing for a guide for applicants to review, which you can do here.

The Application form for the program can be accessed here.

 A snapshot of the program is available here.

The deadline to submit your application is October 31st.

For more notes related to Regional District see our archive page here.