Grants available for groups to support elders
Casey Lessard
Northern News Services
Monday, June 20, 2016
OTTAWA
Community groups with a project idea to help seniors would be well served to apply for the 2016-17 New Horizons for Seniors Program funding, with an application deadline of July 29.
The funding is designed to "help empower seniors to share their knowledge, skills and experience with others and support communities by increasing their capacity to address local issues," states a federal government news release.
The number of approved projects from Nunavut has fallen to two in 2015-16 from a high of eight in 2011-12. Almost every Nunavut project for the last five years has received the maximum funding amount of $25,000.
Last year, the Kitikmeot Heritage Society received $22,667 for its Tracing Our Past: the Elders Genealogy Program, and the Ilitaqsiniq-Nunavut Literacy Council received $25,000 for its Connecting Elders and Youth for Inuit Traditional Food project.
Businesses, non-profits, municipalities and schools are among the groups that can apply for funding, but all projects must be not-for-profit organizations.
