Category: Resources

Funding Opportunity: Promoting a Healthy Drinking Culture in BC Dialogues

Posted On: Monday, June 18th, 2018

Promoting a Healthy Drinking Culture in BC: Convening Grants for Community Dialogues Applications are now available! Community Action Initiative is seeking community-based organizations in municipalities across BC to lead and collaborate with other partners to explore alcohol-related harms caused by moderate-risk drinking in their community, and work together towards building a healthier drinking culture. CAI will award… Read more »

Special Issue of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: The Opioid Crisis in Canada

Posted On: Monday, June 18th, 2018

This comes from the Public Health Agency of Canada Special Issue of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada: The Opioid Crisis in Canada – Enhancing Knowledge to Support Action, Part I Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, Vol 38, No 6, June 2018 Guest Editor: Fiona Kouyoumdjian Issue includes: Commentary – Building the evidence… Read more »

Regional Training in Prince George: #PANintheNorth18

Posted On: Monday, June 11th, 2018

Several members of the PAN team were welcomed in Prince George for the regional training on June 5-6. A sincere shout out and thank you from the PAN folks that attended (Stacy Leblanc, Janice Duddy, Mona Lee, Jaydee Cossar, Tabitha Steager and myself) to the people from Positive Living North (Prince George and Smithers), Central Interior… Read more »

Call for Proposals for the 2018-2019 New Horizons for Seniors Program – Community based Projects

Posted On: Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Updated June 7: The deadline for application has been extended to June 22. The Call for Proposals for the 2018-2019 New Horizons for Seniors Program – Community based Projects Component and Small grants Initiative Pilot  has been launched and will be open from May 7 to June 22, 2018. The emphasis for this email is for the Small… Read more »

Overdose Emergency Response Centre – Community Action Initiative Grants Stream 2

Posted On: Thursday, May 31st, 2018

The Community Overdose Crisis Innovation Grant application process opens on Monday, June 4th!   The Community Action Initiative (CAI), in partnership with the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions (MMHA) and the Overdose Emergency Response Centre (OERC), has funding available for Community Overdose Crisis Innovation Grants. These grants will augment the impact of the previously… Read more »

UPDATED: Public Health Agency of Canada Harm Reduction Fund

Posted On: Monday, May 28th, 2018

Update June 26, 2018: HARM REDUCTION FUND – LETTER OF INTENT ENGLISH TEMPLATE : It has come to our attention that the English Letter of Intent (LOI) template is not allowing some people to change the font to Times New Roman, 12 point, due to content restrictions of the document. As a result, please disregard… Read more »

Webinar: How to Write a Grant Request

Posted On: Friday, May 18th, 2018

This webinar is aimed at  ASOs and Community organisations and is sponsored by Viiv Date: Friday May 25th Time: 9 AM Pacific time/ Noon Eastern time Join ViiV on Friday May 25 at noon (EST) for a live webinar where Donna Tennant, a consultant for non-profit organizations, will give you best practices on the art of… Read more »

Community Action Initiative Updates

Posted On: Friday, May 18th, 2018

Excerpts from the May edition of the Community Action Initiative’s News and Notes for May 2018.  Click here to view the entire CAI Update in a new browser window Overdose Emergency Response Centre CAT Grants Community Action Initiative, in partnership with the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions (MMHA) and the Overdose Emergency Response Centre, has launched… Read more »

NEW! Stigma 102 Video from Universities Without Walls

Posted On: Friday, May 18th, 2018

Stigma 102 is a new video developed by Universities Without Walls, which provides distance education to “move people and HIV research evidence into practice, and practice into research.” Universities Without Walls provides many e-learning modules to learn at your convenience.   . HIV Stigma 102 has been developed as a companion video that follows Stigma 101. Both… Read more »

New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP) Funding Information and Grant Writing Sessions

Posted On: Monday, May 14th, 2018

The New Horizons for Seniors Program (NHSP) helps to ensure seniors will benefit from, and contribute to, the quality of life in their communities through active living and participation in social activities. In anticipation of the next NHSP Call for Proposals, the Government of Canada will provide information to help you with the preparation of… Read more »

Funding Opportunity: Engage Intervention Fund

Posted On: Friday, May 4th, 2018

From the Engage blog: The Engage team is excited to announce the Engage Intervention Fund. The purpose of the Engage Intervention Fund is to support HIV prevention interventions with gay, bi and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM), including trans and Two-Spirit men. Funds are intended to support the development, delivery and evaluation… Read more »