NOW OPEN: Literacy and Essential Skills Funding
Hello again, Funds Fans! It’s too early to tell if I’ve turned over a new leaf from my blue funk induced procrastinating ways but two posts in two days is a good sign, right?
I will be working on a May Deadline Alert for tomorrow’s post but for today, I wanted to let you know that the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES) is inviting eligible organizations to submit proposals to indicate their interest in being part of a pan-Canadian network (PCN) focused on improving the labour market outcomes of Canadians through strengthened literacy and essential skills (LES). Grants range up to $100,000 (estimate) Deadline: May 24th, 2013.
Projects must support at least one of the following basic objectives:
- address employability issues by developing LES knowledge and/or resources that help adults get jobs or improve their employment prospects;
- address workplace issues, including digital skills challenges, by developing LES knowledge and/or resources that help adults perform better in their jobs and advance in the workplace; and/or
- fill knowledge gaps by developing LES knowledge and/or resources for adults that improve our understanding of what works for adult LES.
Eligible recipients include:
- Not-for-profit organizations;
- For-profit organizations – (For-profit organizations may be eligible for funding provided that the nature and intent of the activity is non-commercial, not intended to generate profit, and supports program priorities and objectives);
- Municipal governments;
- Aboriginal organizations (including band councils, tribal councils and self-government entities); and
- Provincial and territorial governments, institutions, agencies and Crown Corporations.
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Alma Louis 9:09 am on May 2, 2013 Permalink |
HI there I just wanted to thank you for doing your update posts on funding available it’s been very helpful.
Kudos and thanks once again.