Maple Leaf Centre for Food Security Leadership Fund 2025 (up to $3,000) – YOA

Deadline: April 14, 2025

Applications are open for the Maple Leaf Centre for Food Security Leadership Fund 2025. The Leadership Fund is a brand new grant program the Maple Leaf Centre for Food Security piloted in 2024. Based on suggestions from the 2024 grantees, they’ve made small modifications and are providing the grant once more in 2025.

The Leadership Fund is for rising and skilled folks leaders working for small-to-medium non-earnings that work in meals insecurity. The Fund is meant to assist these leaders on their journey to achieve the abilities or practices they want to unlock the following degree of affect of their profession. The goal of the Fund straight aligns with the Centre’s dedication to construct capability throughout the non-revenue sector to handle meals insecurity and to alleviate the disproportionate affect of meals insecurity amongst Black and Indigenous communities.

Grant

• Grants of $1,500 or $3,000 might be obtainable to particular person candidates to cowl prices related to self-directed studying alternatives – together with attending workshops, information-sharing gatherings, gaining certification, completion of programs, or charges related to skilled teaching or mentoring.

Eligibility

Eligible candidates should be:

• Canadian residents;
• Paid workers of charities, non-earnings, or grassroots organizations with an annual funds up to $2 million within the 2024 tax yr;
• Working for organizations with a mission or imaginative and prescient aligned with the Centre’s deal with meals insecurity;
• Able to spend the funds by July 2026.

Criteria

• The applicant demonstrates a excessive diploma of self-consciousness of the abilities, competencies, or practices they want to develop of their profession.
• The applicant can clearly join the talent, competency, or apply to the following step(s) of their profession journey or their profession targets.
• Applicant has a plan for how they may begin gaining this talent, competency, or apply with the assistance of the Leadership Fund.

Application

They ask you to submit the next written data on the shape:

• Name
• Email handle
• Role and organizational affiliation
• Organizational assist for this application (sure/no)
• Organization annual funds in 2024 was $2 million or much less (sure/no)
• Amount requested from the Leadership Fund ($1,500 or $3,000)

You will want to reply three questions, both in writing or by video. You can reply in English or French. If you select to write your solutions, use the house on the shape (up to 750 phrases). If you favor to document a video, add your video file to the shape. (up to 3 minutes in size and max 1 GB, whole).

• What talent, competency, or apply may the Leadership Fund aid you obtain?
• How would having this talent, competency or apply aid you overcome a problem you could have encountered and unlock the following degree of your profession? Provide an instance or anecdote.
• What particular bills are you hoping the Leadership Fund will assist to cowl?

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Leadership Fund.