Townshippers Foundation appears to support community-based arts, heritage, youth, and cultural institutions in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, with a strong emphasis on preserving and strengthening local English-speaking community life. Its grantmaking is highly place-based and relationship-driven, mixing one very large capital grant with smaller operating or program grants to museums, libraries, arts groups, and youth-serving organizations. The foundation seems especially interested in projects that improve community assets, expand access to arts for children, and sustain local historical and cultural identity.
Source: Canada Revenue Agency T3010, 2023
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Place-based, community-oriented grantmaking with a mix of large capital support and smaller program/operating grants to local nonprofits and cultural institutions, mostly in the Eastern Townships region.
Emphasize your organization’s ties to the Eastern Townships, clear community benefit, and how the project preserves or enriches local culture, youth opportunities, arts access, or heritage. Capital projects, children’s programming, and initiatives serving the English-speaking community may resonate especially well.
Current and upcoming funding from FONDATION DES GENS DES CANTONS DE L'EST POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LA CULTURE/TOWNSHIPPERS RESEARCH AND CULTURAL FOUNDATION that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Groups must meet the same criteria as grant-supported projects, including alignment with the foundation's social investment themes and community benefit standards.
Deadline: Partnership applications are accepted January 31 and October 1 each year.
Who can apply: Applications must fall into the social investment themes of health, social services, arts, heritage, youth, education or research; provide the greatest good for the greatest number; and avoid duplication of projects carried out by other organizations.
Deadline: Grant applications are accepted from June 1 until the following January 31 each year; applicants notified in March.
Who can apply: For research projects studying Eastern Townships history, especially settlement history and genealogical studies, and/or museum research and conservation projects.
Deadline: Application deadline is January 31, 2025 on the page; current cycle not stated in the scraped content.
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