Find government funding programs and grants for:Jobs, skills training and social development projects

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• Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS)

  Apprenticeship Completion Grant

  A grant for registered apprentices who successfully complete their apprenticeship training program, and get their journeyperson certification in a designated Red Seal trade.

  $2000

  • Accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS)

  Apprenticeship Incentive Grant

  A grant to help apprentices pay for expenses while training as an apprentice in a designated Red Seal trade.

  $1000

  • Accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Canada Retraining and Opportunities Initiative (CROI)

  Canada Retraining and Opportunities Initiative - funding program

  The Canada Retraining and Opportunities Initiative supports community workforce planning and skills training in communities significantly impacted by a mass layoff. It provides funding for community-based projects that help workers develop the skills they need to transition to new jobs.

  • Accepting applications until March 31, 2025 at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)
  • Jobs, training and education

• Compensation for Employers of Reservists Program

  Compensation for Employers of Reservists

  Financial support to offset operational costs incured when reservist employees deploy on full-time operational activity, or participate in military skills training for a minimum of 30 days.

  Funding amounts are determined based on the assessment of the application.

  • Accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Foreign Credential Recognition Program (FCRP)

  Foreign Credential Recognition Program

  Funding to governments and organizations and community groups for programs that contribute to the integration of skilled newcomers and migrant workers in their field or related field of study.

  Funding amounts are determined based on the assessment of the application.

  • Accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Canadian Benefit for Parents of Young Victims of Crime

  Parents of Young Victims of Crime

  Income support for parents or legal guardians who are considering to or have taken time away from work and suffered a loss of income to cope with the death or disappearance of your child or children.

  $500 per week

  • Accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Personal Support Worker Retirement Savings Innovation Program - Call for concepts - Step 1

  The Personal Support Worker Retirement Savings Innovation Program (PSW-RSIP) will provide funding to eligible organizations that are able to provide retirement savings incentives through tax-assisted private savings vehicles to personal support workers (PSWs) currently without workplace retirement security coverage.

  More than $5,000,000

  • Accepting applications January 24, 2025 at 03:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time (EST)
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Social Development Partnerships Program – Disability Component - Disability Benefits Navigation (Navigation Services)

  The Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component (SDPP-D) is a grants and contributions program that seeks to improve the participation and social inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of Canadian society. The Disability Support Navigation call for proposals under this program focuses on helping people with disabilities and their families access disability programs and benefits.

  Up to $1,000,000

  • Accepting applications until January 16, 2025 at 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) Program

  Strategic Collaboration projects

  The Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) Program provides funding to organizations to deliver a range of activities that help youth (aged 15 to 30) overcome barriers to employment. Only specific organizations can apply.

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Canada Service Corps (CSC)

  Accelerator Micro-grants Stream

  Funding for organizations and community groups that will design and deliver accelerator micro-grants to motivate altruistic behavior, help remove barriers, including financial ones, and to enable service objectives.

  Up to $5,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnerships Program (SDPP-D)

  Accessible Canada – National AccessAbility Week Funding – 2025 and 2026

  This funding opportunity aims to support projects that increase awareness through National Accessibility Week (NAAW) activities in 2025 and in 2026. It will fund projects that improve understanding and knowledge of Canadians on accessibility and disability inclusion, reduce stigma and attitudinal barriers towards persons with disabilities, and share best practices and lessons learned related to NAAW activities within the disability community.

  Up to $100,000 or $200,000 (with special requirements) for a project that is up to 2 years

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Migrant Workers Support Program (MWSP)

  Airport orientation and community-based services

  The objective of this process is to fund projects that support migrant workers through orientation and referral services upon arrival at major Canadian airports.

  Up to $5 million

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Analysis and dissemination of the 2018 General social survey – Giving, volunteering and participating

  Funds 1 project to support not-for profit Organizations and community groups in analyzing and disseminating the data. This will help citizens, businesses, not-for profit Organizations and community groups and others to have a better evidence-based understanding of the nature of giving and volunteering in Canada.

  Up to $1,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS)

  Apprenticeship Service

  Funding to intermediaries that have the capacity to support SMEs to hire new, first-year apprentices.

  up to $72,500,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Social Finance Fund (SFF)

  Become a social finance wholesaler

  Funding to accelerate the growth of Canada’s social finance market over 16 fiscal years (2021 to 2036).

  $50 million to $400 million over the first 5 fiscal years

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Canada Learning Bond (CLB)

  Canada Learning Bond - Grants and Contributions Pilot Project - Phase II

  Funding for organizations and community groups to test supported enrolment models for CLB eligible children from populations with lower CLB take-up rates.

  Up to $1,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS)

  Canada Summer Jobs

  Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) provides wage subsidies to support employers to create quality summer work experiences for youth aged 15 to 30 years.

  Up to 50% or 100% of the provincial or territorial adult minimum hourly wage

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Social Development Partnerhsip Program (SDPP)

  Community Services Recovery Fund

  National Funders to distribute the Community Services Recovery Fund to eligible charities and not-for-profit Community Service Organizations across Canada. This program will strengthen the sector as it supports Canadian communities to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Up to $397,540,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP)

  Community-based projects (up to $25,000)

  Funds projects that empower seniors in their communities and contribute to improving their health and well-being.

  Up to $25,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP)

  Community-based projects (up to $5,000)

  A federal grant that supports community-based projects that are designed by seniors for seniors and are volunteer based. This program funds projects that empower seniors in their communities and contribute to improving their health and well-being.

  Up to $5,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Disability - Youth leadership

  Funds projects aimed at developing the next generation of youth disability leaders while also facilitating succession planning and sustainability in the disability sector. Funding is for Organizations and community groups to form a partnership between a national disability organization and an organization within or outside of the disability sector, that is actively engaging youth.

  Up to $50,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Disability Component - Disability Inclusion Action Plan

  Funding to improve the participation and integration of persons with disabilities in all aspects of Canadian society with respect to social inclusion. It will support disability stakeholder-led engagement activities on the Disability Inclusion Action Plan. In result of this process, one partnership-based agreement will be funded.

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Early learning and child care

  ELCC funding supports early learning and child care through transfers to provinces and territories, projects that explore, test, and develop innovative approaches to support early learning and child care and through data and research.

  Up to $1,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC)

  Early Learning and Child Care Innovation Program

  The ELCC Innovation Program provides funding to support organizations and projects aiming to explore, test and develop innovative approaches to child care as well as to improve the quality, accessibility, affordability, inclusivity and flexibility of early learning and child care programs and services.

  Up to $3,000,000 over the term of the project

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF)

  Early Learning and Child Care small projects

  Funding to improve accessibility and safety in regulated and/or licensed ELCC centres. This will help support children with disabilities, parents/guardians with disabilities and/or employees with disabilities. The goal is to ensure that all Canadian families have access to high-quality, affordable and inclusive early learning and child care.

  Up to $25,000,000 in funding over 2 years

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Investment Readiness Program (IRP)

  Ecosystem builder (Round 2)

  Funds projects that help grow and strengthen the Social Innovation or Social Finance ecosystem. This will provide another layer of support to social purpose Organizations and community groups.

  Up to $45,815,426

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF)

  Enabling Accessibility Fund - Small Projects Component

  This funding opportunity aims to make communities and workplaces across Canada more accessible for persons with disabilities. It will fund projects that create more opportunities for persons with disabilities to take part in community activities, programs and services, and access employment.

  Up to $125,000 for a project that is up to 2 years in duration

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF)

  Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities

  Funding to help official language minority communities grow and thrive. It supports them by helping national and regional Organizations and community groups develop the economy and human resources within these communities. It also encourages collaboration between community leaders and fosters partnerships to further these goals.

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Employment Assistance Services

  Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities - Employment Assistance Services

  This funding opportunity aims to support Official Language Minority Communities (OLMC) organizations to deliver Employment Assistance Services (EAS) to English-speaking communities in Quebec and Francophone communities outside Quebec in their first official language. EAS includes services such as providing job search assistance, counselling/case management, job placement services, and unassisted services to help individuals prepare for, obtain and/or maintain employment.

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities (OF)

  Enhancing Access to Professional Sign Language Interpretation

  Funding projects that will increase access to American Sign Language (ASL) and to langue des signes québécoise (LSQ) interpretation.

  Up to $2,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Social Development Partnerships Program (SDPP-D)

  Equitable Access to Reading Program (EARP) – 2024 Call for Proposals

  This funding opportunity aims to increase the production of alternate format reading materials for persons with print disabilities.

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Financial Empowerment of Low-Income People

  Funds projects that develop and carry out financial empowerment services and supports to help increase the financial wellbeing of low-income adults.

  Up to $3,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Financial security

  Projects intended to improve the participation and integration of persons with disabilities in all aspects of their life. Funding will be provided to Organizations and community groups to test new approaches, to assess what works and what does not and to share those findings with others who may be able to learn.

  Up to $150,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care (IELCC)

  Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care - Quality Improvement Projects

  Funding to help develop and promote best practices or innovative models in Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care programs.

  Up to $2,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Reaching Home

  Indigenous Homelessness funding stream

  This program offers financial aid to Canadian communities, specifically in the Quebec region, to help them prevent and decrease homelessness, as well as support their local initiatives and address the specific challenges faced by Indigenous individuals experiencing homelessness.

  Up to $7,062,564

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Foreign Credential Recognition Program (FCRP)

  Innovation and skilled newcomer employment

  Funding to support the development and implementation of innovative and collaborative approaches that improve the integration of highly skilled Newcomers and migrant workers into the Canadian labour market.

  Up to $800,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS)

  Innovation in Apprenticeship

  Funding for projects that support innovative approaches and strengthen partnerships to address apprenticeship challenges in the Red Seal trades.

  Up to $5,000,000 per project

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Intersectional Capacity Development Stream

  Funding for projects that support the increase of capacity of national disability organizations and their partners to address intersectional barriers that impact inclusion of persons with disabilities.

  Up to $700,000 for a project that is up to 24 months in duration

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS)

  Investments in Training Equipment

  Funding for projects that demonstrate a need for trades training equipment and materials that meet industry standards or investments in new technology to train apprentices in Red Seal trades.

  Up to $5,000,000 per project

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Labour

  Labour Funding Program - International Trade and Labour

  Funding for activities such as publishing reports on labour issues, promoting social dialogue, coordinating cooperative efforts, conducting independent evaluations, and resolving disputes related to the enforcement of labour laws.

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Foreign Credential Recognition Program (FCRP)

  Loans and support services to skilled Newcomers and migrant workers

  Funding to manage a Loan Guarantee Fund or Loan Capital Fund and the delivery of loans and support services to skilled newcomers.

  Up to $2,000,000 per year per project

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE)

  Longitudinal Research Projects (Phase II)

  Funding for research organizations to carry out a longitudinal study that answers specific policy research questions about social enterprises and the extent to which they contribute to the social and labour market integration of Black and racialized Canadians.

  Up to $550,000 per project

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Canada Service Corps (CSC)

  Micro-grants Diversity stream

  Funding for diverse organizations that are well-placed to reach and support youth in their communities, in particular Indigenous and under-served youth. These organizations would do so by delivering supports to youth and providing them with small, one-time cash payment.

  Up to $3,000,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Canada Service Corps (CSC)

  Micro-grants stream

  Funding for youth-serving organizations to deliver supports by redistributing one-time cash payments to youth participants across Canada.

  Up to $3,000,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF)

  Midsize projects

  Funding for new construction, renovation and/or retrofit projects that will contribute to reducing waitlists for persons with disabilities to access programs, services and/or support.

  $500,000 and a maximum of $3,000,000 for a project that is up to 2 years in duration

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• National Institute for People of African Descent

  National Institute for People of African Descent

  Funding to to establish a National Institute for People of African Descent.

  Up to $7,250,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  National operating funding stream - Disability

  Funding to support the capacity of national disability organizations to meaningfully and measurably increase the social inclusion of persons with disabilities in Canadian society.

  Up to $200,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE)

  National report (Phase II)

  Funding for 1 organization to produce a national report on the state of social enterprises across Canada. The national report would respond to a critical gap in the field of social enterprises research in Canada; the absence of an agreed upon definition of social enterprises; and a review of the legal environment in which they are operating.

  Up to $300,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC)

  Network of Early Childhood Stakeholders (NECS) and Implementation of Early Learning and Child Care Initiatives in Francophone Official Language Minority Communities

  The initiative of Creating a Network of Early Childhood Stakeholders and Implementation of Early Learning and Child Care Initiatives in Francophone Official Language Minority Communities will support the development of a Network of Early Childhood Stakeholders (NECS) to coordinate different sectors to improve access to high quality, accessible, affordable, flexible and inclusive child care services for Francophone families in a minority setting.

  $47,702,614

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Occupational Health and Saftey (OHS)

  Occupational Health and Safety

  Funding for projects that support federal workplace health and safety.

  Up to $100,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Working conditions and workplace relations

• Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities (OF)

  Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities

  Funding for projects that support individuals, employers and others that work to support disability inclusion and accessibility in employment.

  Up to $15,000,000 over 3 years

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Organizational Capacity Development Stream

  This funding opportunity aims to build and support strategic capacity development of disability organizations. It will fund projects that are disability community-led, composed of project-based activities that enhance organizational capacity and impact the extent to which organizations can participate in advancing the disability policy agenda across jurisdictions.

  Up to $500,000 for a project that is up to 24 months in duration

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP)

  Pan-Canadian projects

  The fund provides financial support for projects that promote collaborative approaches to enhance the social inclusion of seniors, ensuring they can fully participate, contribute, and enjoy a high quality of life within their communities.

  $500,000 to $5 million per project

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP)

  Pan-Canadian Stream – Step 2

  The fund provides financial support for projects that promote collaborative approaches to enhance the social inclusion of seniors, ensuring they can fully participate, contribute, and enjoy a high quality of life within their communities.

  $1 million to $5 million per project

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Accessible Canada

  Partnerships projects

  The funding supports projects that strengthen the capabilities and leadership of the disability community to address accessibility and inclusion barriers, both present and future, while fostering partnerships within the community and with other sectors, with a specific focus on facilitating the involvement of individuals with disabilities in the implementation of the Accessible Canada Act (ACA) and its regulations.

  Up to $675,000 over 2 years

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Personal Support Worker Retirement Savings Innovation Program-Solicited Call

  Funding page for the Personal Support Worker Retirement Savings Innovation contribution program

  More than $5,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Projects to improve Black-led Organizations and community groups’ workplaces and community spaces

  The funding offers financial support to Black-led organizations in Canada, allowing them to enhance their capacity to fulfill their missions, serve Black communities effectively, and make improvements to work or community spaces through equipment purchases, renovations, or retrofits.

  Up to $100,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Investment Readiness Program (IRP)

  Readiness support partners (Round 2)

  Funding for Social Purpose Organizations to build skills and capacity to access social finance investment. Funds should be used to get help do market analyses, develop new products and services, build business plans and acquire technical expertise.

  Up to $45,815,426

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Sectoral Initiatives Program (SIP)

  Sectoral Initiatives Program

  Funding to develop and implement sector-based solutions to address the workforce challenges and needs of Canadian workers and employers and address specific workforce needs in support of economic recovery for a specific sector or across sectors.

  Up to $2,500,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Canada Service Corps (CSC)

  Service Placements National Stream

  Funding for youth-serving organizations with a national reach to develop and deliver full-time and flexible volunteer service placements across Canada for youth participants including youth from Indigenous populations, under-served populations or both.

  Up to $8,000,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Canada Service Corps (CSC)

  Service Placements Regional Stream

  Funding for youth-serving organizations with a local or regional reach to develop and deliver flexible volunteer service placements for youth participants, including youth from Indigenous populations, under-served populations, or both.

  Up to $3,000,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Foreign Credential Recognition Program (FCRP)

  Skilled Newcomer Training Incentive Bond Pilot

  Employers can access funding to hire and train skilled newcomers, offering them valuable work experience in their chosen field and helping them secure employment opportunities.

  Up to $2,000,000 over 3 years

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS)

  Skilled Trades Awareness and Readiness program

  Funding for projects that build awareness of the trades as viable, good quality career, help equip individuals with the skills and supports they need to pursue a career in the skilled trades, or provide opportunities to explore the trades.

  Up to $3,000,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Skills Partnership Fund (SPF)

  Skills development and training-to-employment for Indigenous people

  Funding for project-based fund that supports partnerships between Indigenous organizations and industry employers to provide skills training for Indigenous peoples linked to economic opportunities at the local, regional, and national level.

  Up to $10,000,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Skills for Success (SFS)

  Skills for Success

  Funding for projects that help Canadians at all skills levels to improve their foundational and transferable skills to better prepare for, get and keep a job, and adapt and succeed at work.

  Up to $75,000,000 per project for a maximum duration of 5 years

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Skills for Success (SFS)

  Skills for Success – Research and Innovation Stream

  Funding for research and innovative projects to identify better ways of helping persons prepare for, return to or keep employment and be productive participants in the labour force.

  Up to $7,500,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Skills for Success (SFS)

  Skills for Success – Training and Tools Stream

  Funding for projects that design and implement training, and develop assessment tools and training resources.

  Up to $10,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Children and Youth

  Funding for projects that develop and carry out services and supports to help increase the social inclusion and wellbeing of vulnerable children and youth. Projects should target children and youth who are at highest risk of, or are experiencing negative impacts to their physical and mental wellbeing due to social isolation.

  Up to $3,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Solicited Call - General Social Survey - Giving, Volunteering and Participating

  This funding aims to support the launch of a project that provides data analysis and dissemination of the 2023 General Social Survey -Giving, Volunteering and Participating (GSS-GVP), which is expected to be released in spring 2025.

  Up to $666,664, Up to $666,664

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative - Become a Western intermediary

  Funding for a high capacity organization located in Western Canada or the Territories funding that will support grassroots organizations to address the needs and improve the lives of Black Canadians.

  Up to $1,400,000 for a period of 3 years

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Social Development Partnership Program (SDPP)

  Supports for Student Learning Program

  Funding for organizations to help students stay in school, graduate on time, and go on to post-secondary education. Projects should support the needs of Indigenous or underserved students facing barriers to educational attainment. Projects will offer supports to students outside of their school-based studies.

  Up to $8,500,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Sustainable Development Goals Program (SDGP)

  Sustainable Development Goals

  Funding for projects that increase public awareness, share best practices or lessons learned that support and enhance Canada’s progress on the 2030 Agenda particularly within equity-deserving groups and groups or individuals in vulnerable situations.

  Up to $200,000 for a project that is up to 24 months (maximum $100,000 per fiscal year)

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Sustainable Development Goals Program (SDGP)

  Sustainable Development Goals - Contributions

  Funding for projects that focus on fostering partnerships, innovation and addressing data/research gaps in Canada. Projects should advance the 2030 Agenda as a whole, or multiple Sustainable Development Goals.

  Up to $900,000 for a project that is up to 36 months (maximum $300,000 per fiscal year)

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Union Training and Innovation Program (UTIP)

  Sustainable Jobs Stream - Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy - Union Training and Innovation Program

  This funding opportunity aims to support a series of projects that will develop and deliver green training for journeypersons and apprentices in Red Seal trades that are key to reducing Canada’s emissions. Funded projects will contribute to building a robust trades and apprenticeship training ecosystem in Canada.

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Sectorial Initiatives Program

  Sustainable Jobs Training Fund

  This funding opportunity aims to support a series of training projects that will help workers upgrade or gain new skills for jobs in the low-carbon economy. The fund will focus on low-carbon energy and carbon management, green buildings and retrofits, as well as electric vehicle maintenance and charging infrastructure.

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy (CAS)

  Women in the Skilled Trades Initiative

  Funding for projects that aim to recruit, retain and help exclusively women apprentices succeed in the 39 eligible Red Seal trades found predominately in the construction and manufacturing sectors.

  Up to $3,000,000 per project

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Womens Employment Readiness Program (WERP)

  Women’s Employment Readiness pilot

  Funding to provide and test pre-employment and skills development supports for women. Projects will also include working with employers to reduce barriers to employing women.

  Up to $2,500,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program (SWSP)

  Workers and employers towards economic recovery

  Provide support to Organizations and community groups to implement industry solutions that support skills and employment needs.

  $5,000,000 to $50,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Sectoral Workforce Solutions Program (SWSP)

  Workers and employers towards economic recovery

  Funding to provide support to organizations to implement industry solutions that support skills and employment needs.

  $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 per project

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention Fund (WHVPF)

  Workplace Harassment and Violence Prevention Fund

  Funding to develop sector-specific tools and resources to create safer workplaces for federally regulated employees.

  Up to $2,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Working conditions and workplace relations

• Workplace Opportunities: Removing Barriers to Equity (WORBE)

  Workplace Opportunities: Removing Barriers to Equity

  Funding to support employers subject to the Employment Equity Act in their efforts to improve designated group representation in areas of low representation through partnerships and industry-tailored strategies.

  Up to $500,000 per year

  • Not accepting applications
  • Working conditions and workplace relations

• Workplace Opportunities: Removing Barriers to Equity (WORBE)

  Workplace opportunities: Removing barriers to equity (Step 2)

  Support Organizations and community groups whose concepts were selected during Step 1 of this Call for Concepts in their efforts to improve designated group representation in areas of low representation through partnerships and industry-tailored strategies.

  Up to $500,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Working conditions and workplace relations

• Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS)

  Youth Focused Projects

  Funding for organizations to deliver a range of activities to support young Canadians (aged 15 to 30) to develop the skills and gain the experience they need to find and keep quality jobs.

  Up to $5,000,000

  • Not accepting applications
  • Jobs, training and education

• Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF)

  Youth Innovation Component

  The youth innovation component encourages youth to find accessibility barriers in their communities. They work with local organizations to improve accessibility and safety in community spaces and workplaces

  • Not accepting applications
  • Social Development and Community Building

• Black-led Philanthropic Endowment Fund

  Black-led Philanthropic Endowment Fund

  This call for proposals will provide endowment funding to an eligible organization that would seek the broad goals of reducing anti-Black racism and improving social and economic outcomes in Black communities.

  • Social Development and Community Building

• Community Workforce Development Program (CWDP)

  Community Workforce Development Program National Stream

  Funding for organisations with a national reach to test community-based approaches to workforce planning and skills training to support local economic development and growth.

  • Jobs, training and education

• Community Workforce Development Program (CWDP)

  Community Workforce Development Program Regional Stream

  Funding for organisations with a regional reach to test community-based approaches to workforce planning and skills training to support local economic development and growth.

  • Jobs, training and education

• Age Well at Home

  In-Home Support Pilot Projects

  Funds eligible organizations across Canada that have experience delivering one or more specific volunteer-based services to seniors. Organizations need to provide at least one of the eligible practical support services to low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors in a local area, as well as help seniors navigate and access eligible services provided by other local organizations.

  • Social Development and Community Building

• Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities (OF)

  Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities Program to support Canadians with a Learning Disability

  Funding projects that will support Canadians with a Learning Disability.

  • Jobs, training and education

• Age Well at Home

  Scaling Up for Seniors

  Funds eligible organizations to expand services that have already demonstrated results in helping seniors age at home.

  • Social Development and Community Building