Alberta Civil Society Emerging Leaders Microgrant Program 2025 (up to $5,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 4, 2025

Applications are open for the Alberta Civil Society Emerging Leaders Microgrant Program 2025. ACSEL seeks to encourage the civic participation of Alberta youth by offering Canada Service Corps alumni (aged 16 to 30 years previous) help and assets to develop new or improve pre-present neighborhood-based mostly tasks from April 2024 – March 2025. The goal of this system is to empower Canada Service Corps alumni to develop their neighborhood tasks and improve their neighborhood participation by resilient undertaking administration, accountable implementation, and inclusive collaboration.

The program supplies contributors with:

• An area to develop management expertise by studying about neighborhood work and the basics of undertaking administration (e.g., advertising and marketing, budgeting, and operational planning).
• The OPPORTUNITY to be taught and develop alongside people who need to impression the neighborhood positively.
• Access to a grant useful resource to assist with undertaking planning and implementation.

Grant

• Successful candidates will obtain up to $5,000 in grant funds to assist implement their work and may have entry to a collection of studying workshops on the basics of undertaking administration and neighborhood service.

Eligibility

• Must be 16-30 years of age on the time of application;  
• Must be a Canadian citizen, everlasting resident, or has been granted refugee standing in Canada;  
• Must have participated and accomplished a program or microgrant alternative funded by the Canada Service Corps; and 
• Must have a big tie to Alberta (e.g., have some sort of residence within the province, attend college in Alberta, and many others.). 

Application

• Fill out the online application form and draft budget template. They intention to get again to you on the standing of your application inside 10 enterprise days of receiving your application.
• If you might be permitted, you’ll obtain an acceptance e-mail and you can be added to the Google Classroom to entry the training session recordings and vital paperwork.
• Implement your undertaking! Upon completion, you might be required to submit a monetary reconciliation doc offered to you by this system coordinators.

For extra info, go to ACSEL.