2021/2022 One-Time-Only Health Promotion
Project Grants Application
VCH 2021/2022 One-Time-Only Health Promotion Project Grants FUNDING CRITERIA
Please carefully review and check each box to help ensure your application meets eligibility criteria.
Projects must be one-time-only in nature and intent, or have secured sustainability plans for continuation beyond OTO
funding. VCH defines one-time-only projects as projects designed to achieve desired outcomes within a set time frame.
Projects involving activities that continue beyond the OTO funded period must demonstrate a secure future funding
plan. OTO Grants are not meant to provide gap funding for what are desired/intended to be ongoing programs.
Fundable activities include the following one-time-only project types:
- OTO Project – a one-time-only project that is not intended nor needed to be repeated in order to have the
desired community impacts
- OTO Special Project – a one-time-only project in result of COVID-19 consequences and associated public health
measures, and should build program, organizational and community resiliencies.
- OTO Program enhancement or expansion – a one-time-only sustainable improvement to an existing health
promotion program
- OTO Pilot project – a one-time-only implementation of a health promotion program to test if it yields the
desired results.
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- OTO Program research/planning – a one-time-only project to determine how to successfully implement a new
health promotion program or improve an existing one.
- OTO Small capital project – a one-time-only purchase to acquire assets to be used to improve an existing
health promotion program(s).
- OTO Organizational capacity building (OCB) – a one-time-only project designed to improve an organization’s
operational structures [organizations must be engaged in health promotion programs]*
* Organizations facilitating programs supported by VCH Multi-year Health Promotion Grants or SMART Grants are given priority for capital project funding and OCB funding,
however, proposals from other organizations will be considered.
Projects must consist of, or support, activities that lead to greater equity in wellness by building on a community’s social,
environmental, cultural and economic foundations. Projects must consist of, or support, activities that promote health
and/or prevent illness among, and by, more vulnerable population groups.
Projects must not constitute, or support, provision of direct professional or charitable supports. Some examples of direct
supports not eligible for funding include providing individuals with home supports, food services (including low-cost food
markets, programs exclusively providing meals, food coupons and/or food banks), couns ell ing, s ocial work service s, a llied
health services, referral services, and/or other medical and other therapeutic care.
Projects must build, or support building, on the capacities of peer groups, and/or communities. Projects must not focus
solely, or support projects that focus solely, on building the capacity of individuals to improve their own health (See
footnote 2 on page 1 for examples).
Projects must be based within, and primarily serve, residents of the VCH region (Vancouver, Richmond, North Shore,
Sunshine Coast, Powell River, Sea-to-Sky, Bella Coola Valley and/or Central Coast)
Applicants must be a registered non-profit, school board, First Nation, or local government in BC with an independent,
active governing body (e.g., Board of Directors, Municipal Council, etc.), and be in good fiscal, operational and
administrative standing.
Project expenses must be reasonable in relation to proposed activities, and estimates well supported.
All proposed activities must be completed, and all funding spent, before March 31, 2022.
Non-fundable activities include all those noted above, and the following: administrative activities exceeding 10% grant
value, deficit recovery, gap and/or start-up funding for continuing programs, and participant honoraria.
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Pilot Project proposals should include clearly developed demonstration goals (i.e., definition of what needs testing and/or demonstrating), evaluation strategies, and sustainability plans
(including reasonable assurance of future funding should the pilot be successful).