Strategic Fund — Community Life
The Strategic Fund subcomponent enhances the vitality of official language minority communities through major projects and strategic initiatives designed to:
- improve community living spaces (meeting places, cultural programs and events, community radio and others)
- impact several communities, preferably in more than 1 province or territory
- develop new areas of intervention
- encourage the concerted effort and cooperation of several partners
Who can apply
Eligible applicants include:
- Canadian not-for-profit organizations, duly registered
- associations and professional institutions
- provincial and territorial governments
Eligible expenses
Eligible expenses include, but are not limited to:
- costs to set up, deliver and monitor projects that help ensure the long-term development of official language minority communities in priority sectors
The following expenses are not eligible: expenses related to activities with an international dimension.
Application deadline
Applications for funding may be submitted at any time during the fiscal year.
How to apply
Applicants are required to:
- review the Application Guidelines
- contact the Official Languages Support Programs of the Department of Canadian Heritage to request a funding application package and to submit the required documentation
To apply for funding at the national level, please submit your complete funding application package by email to dglo-olsp@pch.gc.ca.
To apply for funding at a regional level, please consult the list of regional offices to submit your complete funding application package by email.
Contact us
- Address
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Official Languages Support Programs
Department of Canadian Heritage
15 Eddy St, 7th Floor
Gatineau, QC J8X 4B3 - dglo-olsp@pch.gc.ca
- Telephone
- 1-866-811-0055 (toll-free)
- TTY
- 1-888-997-3123 (toll-free)
Agents are available to answer your questions, Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 5 pm (ET).
Regional Offices of the Department of Canadian Heritage
- Alberta, British Columbia and Yukon
- loouest-olwest@pch.gc.ca
- Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Saskatchewan
- lorpn-olpnr@pch.gc.ca
- Ontario
- lo-ontario-ol@pch.gc.ca
- Quebec
- languesofficiellesqc-officiallanguagesqc@pch.gc.ca
- New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island
- languesofficiellesatlantique-officiallanguagesatlantic@pch.gc.ca
Guides and help
- Application Guidelines – Community Life Component – Strategic Funds subcomponent
- Forms – Official Languages Support Programs
- Guide on the public acknowledgement of financial support - Canadian Heritage
- Service standards for Canadian Heritage funding programs
- Framework for the Vitality of Official-Language Minority Communities (OLMC)
- Definitions: Expense Categories and Items
- Report fraud or abuse
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