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<i>Multi-year flexible grants for charities and non-profit organizations
disproportionately impacted by the pandemic to support their recovery
and long-term resiliency.
</i><br><br>The <a href="https://www.vancouverfoundation.ca/grants/recovery-and-resiliency-fund">Recovery and Resiliency Fund</a> is a ground-breaking new fund made
possible through a partnership between Government of BC, Vancouver
Foundation, United Way BC, and New Relationship Trust that will
distribute $34 million to charitable and non-profit organizations, of
which Vancouver Foundation has contributed $4 million. </p>
<p>This Fund will provide <strong>flexible, three-year grants of $50,000
and $72,000 per year to eligible organizations that have been
disproportionately impacted by the pandemic</strong>. $5 million of the
Fund will go to New Relationship Trust to grant directly to
Indigenous-led organizations with annual revenues of more than $1
million.</p>
<h2>Purpose of the Fund</h2>
<p>Although organizations of all sizes in the charitable and non-profit
sector have been negatively affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, some
organizations have been disproportionately impacted because they have
limited resources to sustain their operations. Meanwhile, they’ve also
faced an increased demand for their programs, activities, and services,
and have experienced a decreased operational ability to meet the demand
due to funding and staffing challenges.</p>
<p>This Fund supports organizations that have been disproportionately
impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic with recovery efforts and long-term
planning. It seeks to distribute the funding amongst those in need in
our community as follows:</p>
<ul><li>funding Indigenous-led organizations with annual operating budgets of any size</li><li>funding non-Indigenous organizations with annual operating budgets of less than $1 million</li><li>funding proportionately more organizations located in and/or operating in rural areas</li><li>funding proportionately more organizations in full partnership with,
or led by, equity-denied communities that center the communities they
represent</li></ul>
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