Our intention is to listen, understand and learn from the initiatives that we support. Our goal is to remain a foundation that is firmly anchored on the needs of diverse communities. This allows us to have an in-depth understanding of current issues and their contexts and enables us to do a flexible and sensitive analysis of the submitted applications.
We offer funding to:
Communities where partnership coalitions are mobilized to act on various issues (poverty, inequalities, social development, the development of children and youth, and the environments where they and their families are living).
Networks of organizations, actors, citizens, stakeholders or decision-makers who innovate, share knowledge and practices, and participate in dialogue on public policy.
Resources offered by organizations anchored in the community that provide information, support, raise awareness and offer alternative voices for population, other actors (networks, territories) and political decision-makers.
What guides our decisions
The connection with our mission
In what ways does your initiative contribute to poverty prevention and other forms of inequities so that all children and youth living in Québec have the opportunity to develop their full potential, including to:
Our keys to understanding
Mobilization and social anchoring
The mobilization of initiative leaders, the support of the community and the alignment of the initiative with community needs.
Planned actions
The actions envisaged by the partners to successfully carry out their initiative.
Intented transformations
Beyond the sum of all of the proposed actions, the overall objective and social change sought by the partners through their initiative.
Potential benefits
The initiative’s contribution to the community needs and its overall added value to promote the development of the full potential of young people.
Initiatives that we do not support
In order to remain consistent with its mission and orientations, the Foundation does not finance:
- Initiatives that:
- target issues outside of Québec
- are not related to developing the full potential of children and youth
- fail to address barriers that lead to inequality or the conditions that reduce them
- offer direct services for individuals as opposed to proposing a global response to a need in the community
- are submitted by a single organization, i.e., that are not the result of a joint effort or partnership
- seek to implement or reproduce a program or solution on the ground based on a top-down approach
- Base or recurring funding for an organization or project
- Fundraising campaigns (regular or emergency)
- Grants and bursaries (for education, for example)
- Purchase of equipment, food, school supplies, etc.
- Partisan political activities
- For-profit organization projects
- Individual projects
How to submit an application?
Is your initiative aligned with our funding orientations presented on this page? Do you think we could become one of your partners?
We invite you to send us a letter of intent, briefly explaining:
- who you are, your vision and how you intend to contribute with your partners, thus establishing conditions that will further the development of the full potential of young people
- the type of support you need
- How your initiative fits with our orientations
Once your request has been received, it will be processed through a series of steps. Note that we accept and process applications throughout the year.
