Approval of the 2024 Grant Applications.
The National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada is pleased to announce grant funding approvals for our 2024 Grant Program.
Photo: 60’s Scoop Survivor volunteer Board of Directors approving the 2024 grants at the in person Annual General Meeting in Québec City.
The NSSHFC is pleased to announce the grant funding approvals for our 2024 Grant Program. This represents the fourth successful grant program since the establishment of a permanent, Survivor-led, volunteer, unpaid Board of Directors. The Foundation is a registered charitable organization under the Income Tax Act (ITA). Its charitable registration number is 755255312RR0001.
2024 Grant Application: This year the Foundation's Board of Directors has successfully managed to grant over $2.9 million dollars to fifteen (15) grant applicants in accordance with our required disbursement quota with the Canada Revenue Income Tax Act for registered charities. The Foundation received well over 50 applications this year that totaling more than $10 million dollars, regrettably being a small Foundation, not all application requests can be supported by the Foundation for the 2024 year.
About the Foundation: In the past four years since the establishment of the permanent Board of Directors, who are all unpaid volunteer Sixties Scoop Survivors themselves, who selflessly work toward the healing of our survivor communities for reclamation, reunion, and cultural practices in reconnecting them to what has been lost.
Through our annual grant program, we hope to empower organizations that share our commitment to Sixties Scoop Survivors, their families, and/or descendants. The NSSHFC seeks to provide opportunities for Sixties Scoop Survivors, their Families, and Descendants to find community, and claim a sense of place within safe and sacred spaces for health, healing, and wellness, and support. The Foundation accomplishes this by providing grants to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis organizations and service providers that work alongside Sixties Scoop Survivors.
Since 2021 each year the successful grant recipients represented all cross-sections of the country, from the East Coast Region(Newfoundland, PEI, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia) to the Central Canada Region (Ontario and Quebec), to the Prairie Region (Manitoba Alberta and Saskatchewan), to the Northern Region (Nunavut and Northwest Territories) and to the West Coast Region (Yukon and British Columbia). One of the core mandates of the Foundation is to provide funding to these regional organizations so that they may execute tailored regional healing and reunification programs to meet their specific local and cultural needs.
Every spring the Foundation opens its Grant Funding Application Process and in the past four years since the establishment of the permanent board of Directors, the Board has successfully managed to grant over $9.6 million to 53 organizations across Canada from, sea to sea to sea, in each region of Canada for Inuit, First Nation and Métis Scoop Survivors to begin the work of healing survivors through reclamation, reunion, and cultural practices reconnecting them to what has been lost.
In April, the Foundation made a call for applications for organizations across Canada to apply for the 2024 Grants Program.
This year, fifteen organizations were selected for the 2024 Grant Program and a brief description of their registered charity is provided below:
Akiing Onji Foundation Inc - Anish Healing Centre
Arts Orillia
Center for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) - Voices of Future Generations Initiative
First Light St. John’s Friendship Centre
Fraser Regional Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association
Indigenous Health Centre of Tiohtià:ke (IHCT)
Ingamo Hall Friendship Centre
John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights - Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of British Columbia
Labrador Friendship Centre
Labrador Heritage Society
Nenqayni Wellness Centre Society
Odawa Native Friendship Centre
Old School Community Gathering Place - Life as Medicine: Circle of Indigenous Healing Arts
Saskatoon Indian & Métis Friendship Centre
Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre
For more information about this year’s Grant Program, please visit our website at: https://www.sixtiesscoophealingfoundation.ca or contact the Foundation Director of Communications, Rochelle Guiboche.
Rochelle Guiboche, Director of Communications email: communications@60sscoopfoundation.com phone:1-877-313-7011
We are grateful for your continued support of the Foundation and invite you to learn more about our grant recipients as they continue their work contributing to the healing and wellness of our community.
In the spirit of healing, restoration and solidarity, gilakas'la, kinanâskomitin, marsee, marsi cho, migwetch, nia;wen, niaut, nakummek, nakirmiik, tshinashkumitin, wela'lin, tiawenhk, wliWni, tiniki, LimLimpt, merci, thank you,