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Removing Financial Barriers – Jumpstart Individual Child Grants
Sometimes, families need financial assistance to get their kids into a sport or physical activity. Together with JumpStart, we’re committed to helping all families in our community.
Funding Requirements
- Children must fall between the ages of 4 – 18 years old.
- Funding is allocated to sustained programs that involve a sport or physical activity. Stingers House League Softball qualifies.
- To be eligible for funding for one or more children, families must first meet specific financial criteria as per Revenue Canada’s Low-Income Cut-Offs (LICO) chart. Jumpstart uses the furthest column to the right of the chart for eligibility.
- For families who are new to Canada, Canadian financial history criteria may not be required for application purposes.
- Funding can be used for registration fees, equipment or both.
For complete information. please click on the link below.
https://jumpstart.canadiantire.ca/pages/individual-child-grants
Please click on the JumpStart logo to go directly to their Main page. Click on the link above to learn more about individual child grants.
Removing Financial Barriers – KidSport Individual Child Grants
KidSport provides grants to kids from families facing financial barriers so they can participate in registered sport programs and experience the lifelong benefits of a season of sport. KidSport Ontario provides grants of up to $250 per eligible kid, per year (January 1st – December 31st) towards sport registration fees.
How Do I Apply?
- Navigate to their website to review the APPLICATION DEADLINES to allow enough time to accommodate in season registration. https://kidsportcanada.ca/ontario/provincial-fund/ KidSport funding.
- When asked for your location, choose the provincial fund
- Apply online or use the paper application form – be sure to complete all sections of the application, as incomplete applications take much longer to process, and can cause delays in receiving your grant.
- Your completed application will be processed within 30 days of being received. If you qualify for KidSport funding, the grant will be sent directly to the sport program your kid has signed up for.
- Finally, register with us to hold your spot!
KidSport Canada | So all kids can play
Removing Financial Barriers – Jumpstart Community Development Grants
Our Community Development Grants have two funding streams: Program Support and Operational Support. These grants help organizations who provide programming for kids between the ages of 4-18 in financial need or youth with disabilities between the ages of 4-25.
Programming Support: Grants are awarded to help organizations develop or sustain the delivery of sport or physical activity-based programs.
Operational Support: Grants are awarded to help organizations build their capacity to provide more inclusive, equitable, safe sport participant experiences.
While organizations can apply more than once within the same application intake period, the requests must be clearly justified and not duplicate nor be dependent on funding from another Jumpstart Community Development Grant application. Funding is determined on the quality and eligibility of each application and overall demand.
Programming Support
Provides organizations with support to manage the costs of delivering sport and active recreational programming, including but not limited to:
- Program leaders, instructors, and coaches;
- Facility rentals;
- Equipment needs;
- Transportation needs.
Operational Support
Provides organizations with assistance to build capacity to provide more inclusive, equitable, and safe sport participant experiences, including but not limited to:
- Build staff and/or volunteer experience/expertise through training and education;
- Organization intersectionality approaches to reduce or eliminate systemic barriers to participation (i.e., policies, programs, practices, and spaces).
Jumpstart strongly recommends you reach out to your Regional Manager before applying for an Operational Support grant to ensure that your initiative is eligible and aligns with the funding stream criteria. Please click here to set up a call with the Regional Manager in your area.
