Deadline (Application): Advancing Indigenous Gender Equality: A Grand Challenge for Indigenous Innovation
The Indigenous Innovation Initiative was started to address health, social, and economic challenges and spark community-led Indigenous innovation. The core principles of the Indigenous Innovation Initiative are to:
- Honour Indigenous ways of knowing and being;
- Honour Indigenous laws and rights; and
- Honour the Land and Water
The goal of this program is to create access to capital and supports for innovation and social entrepreneurship opportunities for First Nations, Métis, or Inuit women, Two Spirit, queer, trans, non-binary, or gender-diverse persons in Canada.
Eligible applicants must be Indigenous.
Seed grants can be up to $125,000 for a funding period of up to 12 months (1 year).
For applicants at the transition to scale stage, budgets will be customized based on the size, scope, and impact potential of the proposed project, and may require the applicant to demonstrate they have secured other funding partners for the same project.
The full call is available here [PDF]
Internal Deadline: August 8, 2023 at 4:30pm. Contact email is ird@dal.ca. For additional resources, click here for guidance on internal deadlines and submission processes.
Funder Deadline: August 22, 2023
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