Apply for funding for the In-Home Support Pilot Project stream of the Age Well at Home initiative - Closed

Important: Assess your eligibility

Before you apply, please check to see if you are eligible by responding to these 4 statements. If you cannot answer “yes” to all 4 eligibility statements and cannot provide all required information in your application, you are not eligible to apply under this process and your application will be deemed ineligible for funding.

1. I delivered one of the following eligible services to low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors, primarily in their home, for at least 3 of the last 5 years. (Yes/No)
   • light housekeeping (for example: laundry, cleaning)
   • meal delivery and/or preparation
   • home maintenance (such as repairs, yard work, lawn mowing)
   • transportation (for example: to appointments, errands)
   • snow removal
   • volunteer drop offs (for example: groceries, medication, pet supplies), and
   • friendly visiting in the home
2. I have provided a service that helps seniors navigate and gain access to eligible services provided by other organizations active in the local area, for at least 3 of the last 5 years. (Yes/No)
3. I provided the service(s) primarily using volunteers (at least 60% of delivery of services is done through volunteer labour). (Yes/No)
4. I delivered the services primarily to people who are low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors. (Yes/No)

Eligible applicants

Your organization must have significant and relevant experience in delivering one of the following services to low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors, primarily in their home, for at least 3 of the last 5 years:

• light housekeeping (for example: laundry, cleaning)
• meal delivery and/or preparation
• home maintenance (such as repairs, yard work, lawn mowing)
• transportation (for example to appointments, errands)
• snow removal
• volunteer drop offs (for example: groceries, medication, pet supplies), and
• friendly visiting in the home

Your organization can only submit 1 application under the In-Home Support Pilot stream Call for Proposals (CFP).

Your organization must be in Canada and must be 1 of the following types:

• not-for-profit organization (including charities)
• municipal governments
• educational institution
• Indigenous entities including:
  • band councils
  • tribal councils, and
  • self-government entities
• health and social services institutions

The following organizations are eligible to apply, if they can demonstrate that their provincial or territorial government is in agreement with the project proposed:

• post-secondary institutions
• health institutions
• provincially/territorially funded institutions

Eligible activities and costs

Eligible activities and costs include, but are not limited to, the following:

• hiring, paying, and providing work tools to staff related to project administration
• buying and renting materials, supplies, and equipment
• renting, insuring, and purchasing utilities for work and project space
• travelling and providing hospitality
• reimbursing volunteer purchases of supplies to support project activities (including mileage)
• providing accessibility supports for staff
• engaging with Elders
• purchasing professional services, and
• in exceptional circumstances only, hiring staff or paid contractors to deliver services to seniors

Each activity should be clearly linked to the project costs.

Organization experience

You must show and describe in your application that your organization has recent, significant, and relevant experience.

We define recent experience as experience within the last 5 years.

We define significant experience as experience totaling at least 3 years within the last 5 years.

We define relevant experience as experience providing:

• at least 1 of the eligible services to people who are low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors, primarily in the seniors’ homes
• individualized help with navigating and gaining access to eligible services provided by other organizations, and
• at least 60% of delivery of services through volunteer labour

Note: Please include all details related to each experience including, but not limited to, timelines and the number of seniors impacted by your activities.

Project objectives

You must show in your application:

• how your project addresses the needs of low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors to help them age at home, including how it aligns with the objectives of this call, which are to:
  • expand delivery of volunteer-based eligible services to low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors to help them age at home, by offering additional eligible services and/or offering existing eligible services to more seniors,
  • provide a service that helps low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors navigate and gain access to eligible services provided by other organizations active in the local area
• applicants must list the eligible services they propose to deliver, primarily in the seniors’ homes
• applicants must demonstrate that proposed services will be delivered using volunteers; or, in exceptional circumstances, why they will primarily be delivered by volunteers with limited delivery by paid staff or contractors (see applicant guide for details)
• applicants must list all the groups of vulnerable seniors who will benefit from their activities
• applicants must describe:
  • their target group of low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors
  • the strategies they would use to find and enroll those seniors as clients
  • if any of the eligible services they propose to deliver are already provided in the local area, applicants must explain why the services are not available and accessible to the seniors they propose to serve (the project cannot duplicate services already available and accessible in the local area, including services that are provincially- or territorially-funded)

Project activities

You must describe in your application:

• how your project’s activities will align with the project objectives
• the activities and timelines clearly and in a realistic manner
• the steps that your organization will take to meet the objectives of the project, including mandatory activities for all projects

Project expected results

You must demonstrate in your application how the expected results:

• clearly link to your project objectives
• are specific, concrete and measurable
• are defined as outputs and outcomes (qualitative and/or quantitative), and
• include Results Measurement Indicators (RMIs)

Project outcomes must support the outcome of this CFP, which are to:

• increase the ability of seniors and low-income and otherwise vulnerable seniors to age at home, and
• increase the capacity of seniors-serving organizations to support aging at home

Priority

The following priority will be applied: 

• funding projects in as many provinces and territories as possible

Considerations

Projects will be considered for funding based on their own merit, and the Department will also consider how the projects contribute to the diversity and inclusion of the group of projects recommended for approval. To recommend a group of projects to the Minister of Seniors, several related considerations could be applied at the same time.

We may give additional consideration to:

• geographic distribution of projects within a province or territory could be considered to allow for both urban and rural/remote sites to be funded
• projects through which organizations will deliver as many different types of practical supports as possible
• projects that will deliver multiple eligible services, and allow for a variety of eligible services within a province and territory
• projects that focus on serving seniors who are members of Official Language Minority Communities (OLMCs)
• projects that will support a variety of vulnerable seniors, for example seniors who are:
  • women
  • Indigenous
  • seniors with disabilities
  • newcomers
  • primarily speak languages other than English or French
  • LGBTQ2+
  • Black or otherwise racialized
  • living in rural and remote settings, and
  • facing other barriers
• projects from a variety of types of organizations (not-for-profit, etc.).
• organizations that have demonstrated a relatively higher degree of the recent, significant, and relevant experience required for eligibility
• funding an organization only once under the Age Well at Home Initiative (meaning 1 project across both streams – In-Home Support Pilot Project and Scaling Up for Seniors)

Please note that we may share your application with other departments and jurisdictions as part of the assessment of your project proposal.

Gather your supporting documents and information

• Completed Application for Funding form (EMP5523)
• A proof of organization type and status: A formal document coming from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that includes your organization’s current address and business number

Note: If you are unable to provide that document with your application, please provide a rationale as to why you cannot provide it. You should also provide us with a document that includes:

• registration number, or
• proof of provincial incorporation or registration

Please note that you will still be required to send us a formal document coming from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that includes your organization’s current address and business number, but at a later date. We encourage you to get the process of obtaining that document started as early as possible.

Decide how to apply

Information sessions

We will hold information sessions, in the coming weeks, to provide an overview of this application process. You can take part online or by teleconference.

If you are interested, send an email to: EDSC.DGOP.BVCS.SD-AWAH.IHS.POB.ESDC@servicecanada.gc.ca. In your email, specify your preferred language (English or French).