The Community Initiatives Fund (CIF) supports community programs that enhance quality of life for Saskatchewan people through two grant programs:
CIF Community Grant Program –
Application Deadline: April 1 / October 1 at 4pm
The CIF Community Grant Program provides funding support to a wide range of programs and services under three funding themes:
Healthy Growth and Development of Children and Youth: supporting childhood development programs and services that provide young children with a good start in life and prepare youth for the future. Particularly programs and services that reduce barriers and enhance accessibility for young people.
Individual and Community Wellbeing: supporting programs for all ages that support healthy lifestyles, supportive and inclusive communities, and provide access to programs and services.
Nonprofit and Community Leadership: supporting initiatives that strengthen the knowledge and skills of nonprofit board members to effectively govern; nonprofit staff to deliver programs that benefit participants; and volunteers to become community leaders and support nonprofit program delivery, enhancing the ability of nonprofits to achieve their mission and have a positive impact on community.
The maximum amount that can be applied for is $30,000 for local/regional programs and $50,000 for programs that are provincial in scope.
CIF Summer Grant Program –
Application Deadline: February 1 at 4pm
The Summer Grant Program provides funding to standalone summer programs that provide recreation opportunities for children and youth participants under 18 years of age. Summer programs must be held between June 1 and August 31.
Initiatives supported under the Summer Grant include summer camps and day programs offering: cultural programming including arts, heritage, multicultural, ethnocultural activities; literacy and learning; mentoring and mental health programming; as well as recreation programming including physical, social, intellectual, and creative activities.
The maximum amount that can be applied for is $6,000.
The Community Initiatives Fund’s (CIF) work and support reaches lands covered by Treaties 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10, the traditional lands of the Cree (Nêhiyawak; Nêhithawak; Nêhinawak), Dakota and Lakota (Sioux), Dene (Chipewyan), Nakota (Assiniboine), and Saulteaux (Nahkawininiwak) peoples, as well as homeland of the Métis. Today, these lands continue to be the shared Territory of many diverse peoples from near and far.
