Sport Support Program | Community Sport for All Initiative
“Canada | Culture, history and sport”
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Maximum Eligible Amount
Government Grant
Fund Type
The Community Sport for All Initiative (CSAI) component of the Sport Support Program seeks to remove barriers and increase sport participation rates for underrepresented groups. Its key objective is to support community sport initiatives for equity-deserving groups, in particular, Black, Indigenous, racialized, 2SLGBTQQIA+, low income and newcomers to increase participation and retention in sport.
The Community Sport for All Initiative (CSAI), a component of the SSP, seeks to remove barriers and increase sport participation rates for underrepresented groups. Its key objective is to support community sport initiatives for equity-deserving groups, in particular, Black, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQQIA+, and Newcomers to increase participation and retention in sport.
The CSAI funding is directed at Applicant Organizations to administer and disburse project funding to Community Organizations to deliver community sport initiatives that contribute to and align with the objectives of the SSP.
The expected results of this funding are to:
- increase opportunities for identified equity-deserving groups to participate in sport for funded community sport initiatives; and
- provide access to quality sport programming and services for Canadians, including identified equity-deserving groups.
Funding through this component is community project-based, when determining which Community Organization(s) and/or community sport initiatives to support you must adhere to the following principles:
- Affordable: projects will be delivered with minimal to no cost to participants.
- Results oriented: projects will be delivered in such a way as to increase participation and retention of equity-deserving communities and, ultimately, drive behavioural change.
- Focused on organized sport: while other activities may be included (such as movement skills development), the primary activity must be organized sport, and must adhere to safe sport practices.
- Green: delivery of the projects should produce minimal or positive environmental impact.
- Accessible: projects must be tailored to the needs of one or more of the equity-deserving groups but need not be exclusionary and can be open to all and should allow for a wide range of athletic ability.
- Available: projects should seek to be delivered in underserved communities and to achieve regional diversity.
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