Are you launching your own
Community Initiative or Project?
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Harness the power of circular giving to support your community-building initiative.
Examples of projects we fund
We invite you to launch projects that will contribute to solving unmet needs in their own communities.
Period Product Distribution
Distribute period products to remote, Northern, Indigenous communities to increase accessibility and enhance equitable and access to health. Read our case study here.
Arts Healing for Immigrants
Support an immigrant family in your community with arts-related projects to help them ease the transition through engaging in relevant cultural practices.
Community Clean-Ups
Organize a community clean-up to keep your local areas clean, safe, and sustainable open for members of your community.
Business-building workshops for women in shelters
Run business-building and resume workshops for women in shelters, with programming and mentorship!
Are you eligible?
We support community engagement initiatives that align with our re-worlding themes. Be welcome to explore the A-Z (A-D's) of our eligibility criteria.
A. Project Leaders
Projects must be led by individuals, not organizations, NGOs, non-profits, etc. Applicants cannot be people applying on behalf of organizations. Applicants under the age of 16 must apply with a guardian.
B. Project Training
Participate in at least one of our free training programs to learn about our Community Engagement Model, Re-Worlding Model, and how to deliver impactful projects. We even offer office hours to help your project!
C. Project Types
Projects must align with our Community Engagement Model (below), highlighting the different ways you and your project can engage in your community, and our Re-Worlding Model (below), our areas of impact we recognize.
D. Project Budget
Projects can have a national or international scope, with budgets up to $5,000 CAD (i.e. maximum budget is $5,000 CAD). We see a range of project budgets; many that first start are under $1,000
CAD.
our community
engagement
model
To us, being engaged in community looks like listening to our fellow community members and coming together to co-create change in our own communities. It means empowering community members to create their own change in their community.
We invite you to engage in community in ways that align with our Community Engagement Model.
Engaging in community can take on many forms including:
volunteering your time with other organizations
starting, organizing, or delivering grassroots initiatives
starting, organizing, delivering, or facilitating community programs
making monetary or item donations
starting and/or organizing activism/movements
contributing to social justice and policy through community research, projects, petitions, etc.
our
re-worlding
model
We also invite you to engage in your community in ways that align with our Re-Worlding Model, which identifies five Re-Worlding themes that are overlapping at the root of change; when we re-world in one of these themes, we re-world in others.
The Planet: Honouring and supporting sustainable life for all, including animal rights, climate change, and displacement.
Freedom To Be: Honouring and supporting gender diversity and gender equity, including LGBTQ++, gender-based violence and equitable access to health.
Equal Opportunity: Honouring and supporting anyone with limited abilities, physically, and/or mentally, including disabilities awareness and accessibility rights.
Indigenous Reconciliation: Honouring and supporting Indigenous relationships and knowledge, including landback motions and displacement.
New Beginnings: Honouring and Supporting displaced people and families, people on the move, and returning citizens with a history of incarceration.
how to use this model
1. Explore the Re-Worlding Themes that resonate with your interests.
2. Engage with the members of communities in these themes to identify unmeet needs, obstacles, other participants trying to help, and other factors contributing to current standards.
3. Serve the communities and/or the members of community in these themes.
4. Identify any overlaps between multiple themes and see if there are projects you can launch that can serve the overlap and ultimately, cause the entire system to self-organize!
The process
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Applicants are welcome to submit applications for NEW projects with clear differences (ex. different community engagement models, different re-worlding themes) as many times as they wish.
2. Review
Initial review conducted by The Being Human Foundation to ensure base requirements are met. All project leaders will be notified regardless of status. We will offer feedback if your project is not selected. We invite you to connect with us through our office hours to resubmit if you wish.
3. Voting Period
If your project is successful, we will list it on our Circular Giving page for Circular Givers to vote. Voting period is 72 hours. Project with majority votes will receive funding.The Being Human Foundation will notify all project leaders about the status of their project after the voting period.
4. Top-Up Period & Disbursement
Once voting is complete, The Being Human Foundation will invite Circular Givers for an additional to make additional donations to ALL listed projects, regardless of outcome, for 48 hours ("Top-Up Period"). Projects will receive funds within 72 hours.
Other considerations
Our Circular Giving Community can decide to only partially fund your project, even if your project receives majority votes.
To email your application, please emails us at communityprojects@thebeinghumanfoundation.org with subject line: Community Project Application Submission - [First Name] [Last Name]
If you need other accommodations to submit your application through means other than email or online submission, please email us at communityprojects@thebeinghumanfoundation.org with subject line: Community Project Submission Accommodations - [First Name] [Last Name]
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