Grants in Aid

Grants in Aid are one-time grants awarded to community non-profit organizations operating within the Juan de Fuca, Salt Spring Island and Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Areas.
They are awarded to projects or activities which are beyond the scope of CRD services and represent an appropriate use of tax dollars to benefit the Electoral Areas.

For more information please contact Melody Pender

e:   p: 250-629-3475

2020 Grants in Aid:

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• Galiano Club: $5,500
  Food Bank funds (during COVID 19) and planting coastal Douglas fir seedlings  

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• Saturna Community Club: $2,500
  Take home meals for seniors (during COVID 19)
   

• PIHARA: $5,000
  Youth Leadership Training Program
   

• Gulf Islands Food Co-Op: $5,000
  Squash Festival
   

• South Pender Historical Society: $5,000
  Remediation
   

• Ptarmigan Arts: $3,000
  Mosaic Festival
   

• Pender Island Junior Sailing: $2,977.30
  Equipment to run courses
   

• SGI CRC: $4,360.00
  Tetaces Climate Action Project Course Evaluation Workshop    

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• Coast Salish Peoples Society: $5,000
  Non Affiliated Indigenous Peoples of the Gulf Islands Project    

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• Piers Island Association: $1,625.00 
  Green initiative workshops on decreasing carbon footprint    

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• Access to Media Education Society: $2,442.37
  Galiano showing of Dust n Bones  

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How To Apply:

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Applications for Grants-in-Aid are received throughout the year, and are submitted by email or fax to the Electoral Area Director for the region from which the application originates:

Grant in Aid Guide (download)

GIA Application Form (download)

2019 Grants in Aid:

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• Pender Island Conservancy: $3,000 
  Salish Sea Stars - Climate Action Summit
   

• Mayne Island Housing Society: $5,000
  project development
   

• Pender Island Trust Protection Society $3,075
  Climate Change Community Service Seminar
   

• PIRAHA: $7,500
  parking lot project
   

• Mayne Island Residents & Ratepayers Assn: $2,500
  Fallow Deer project
   

• S. Pender Historical Society: $2,200
  Pender Reconciliation Initiative
   

• Pender Island Childcare Society: $955
  Pre Kindergarten music and dance classes
   

• SGI Community Resource Centre Society:  $4,000
  Salish Sea Registry implementation
   

• Mayne Island Conservancy: $5,000
  Mayne/Galiano Conservancy joint bio blitz 2019
   

• Galiano Activity Centre Society: $5,000
  Enhancement of early years playground
   

• Pender Island Organic Garden Society: $961.39
  Repair community garden fence
   

• SGI Community Resource Centre: $4,000
  SENCOTEN-English songwriting project
   

• SGI Community Resource Centre:  $5,000
  SGI Volunteer program implementation
   

• Galiano Club: $3,400
  equipment purchase for cinema
   

• Gulf Islands Food Co-op: $6,000
  program to increase food production
   

• Saturna Community Club: $4,954
  Meals to Seniors at home pilot project
   

• SSIITS:  $5,000
  Tour des Iles Festival 2019
   

• South Pender Historical Society: $4,500
  First Nations Leadership & Elders meeting
   

• Ptarmigan Arts Society: $4,500
  First Nations & SGI's connecting youth through music
   

• Salish Sea Renewable Energy Co-op. $5,000
  Climate Action & Renewable Energy outreach in SGI's
   

• Mayne Island Integrated Water Systems Society: $1,000
  educational workshops for water system mgrs in SGI's
   

• SIMRES: $1,000
  Project assitance
   

• South Pender Historical Society: $3,000