Small Projects Component – Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF)

The Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF) provides funding for projects that make communities and workplaces more accessible for persons with disabilities. EAF creates more opportunities for persons with disabilities to:

• take part in community activities, programs and services
• access employment

This Call for Proposals (CFP) will provide up to $57,950,000 in funding in fiscal year 2022 to 2023 to support a minimum of 580 accessibility projects, and up to $6,500,000 to support a minimum of 65 Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) projects.

The Department will prioritize funding to projects that help improve accessibility and safety for persons with disabilities in:

• shelters, for those experiencing violence and/or gender-based violence
• workplaces where persons with disabilities work or could work in the future
• Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) centres
• Indigenous projects to improve accessibility in Indigenous organizations

Eligible organizations can only submit 1 application to this CFP and can apply for up to $100,000 for:

• small construction, renovation or retrofit of existing spaces to improve accessibility
• accessible Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Program objectives

Successful projects under this Call for proposals (CFP) will receive funding for new construction, renovation and/or retrofit activities, that will improve accessibility and safety for persons with disabilities in:

• a facility where persons with disabilities work or could work in the future (Workplace Accessibility Stream)

or

• a community space where programs or services are, or will be available for persons with disabilities (Community Accessibility Stream)

Funding priorities

The Department will prioritize funding to projects based on the following:

• $5 million allocated for projects that increase accessibility and safety in facilities that deliver at least one of the following fundamental services to address poverty:
  • Housing security: shelters for persons experiencing homelessness and/or violence
  • Food security: food banks and emergency meal services
  • Clothing security: charities that offer second hand clothing (e.g., thrift shops, the snowsuit fund)
• $2 million allocated for Indigenous community projects that will improve accessibility and safety for Indigenous persons with disabilities.
• of note, priority may also be given to applications based on geographic distribution, community needs and other emerging priorities that support the objective of the EAF.
• organizations that received funding from the 2022 small projects CFP will only be considered after those that did not receive funding through the 2022 small projects CFP.

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