You are heading a Canadian non-profit organization and need to run your activities in both official languages to increase your visibility. Since however your funds are limited because you are non profit, you renounce, thereby killing your organization’s prospects of gaining national stature.
Is this fatality? Is there a glass ceiling preventing non-for-profit organizations from emerging nationally?
Thankfully, no.
Canadian Heritage provides financial assistance up to $ 5,000.00 in the form of a grant to Canadian registered and incorporated non-for-profit organizations requiring language services in the official languages in Canada. These include:
- projects involving simultaneous interpretation (from one official language to the other) as well as sign language
- translations from one official language to the other.
The documents for which the translation is being prepared and financial assistance requested must be provided free of charge.
Funding may not cover more than 50% of eligible expenses.
With respect to the applications themselves, you must use a specific form available by calling 819-934-9554. Applications take several weeks to be processed. You may apply only once a year during the government’s fiscal year (April 1st – March 31) but projects overlapping two fiscal years are ineligible.
For more information, please consult Canadian Heritage’s relevant website.