Enabling Grants

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Enabling Grants are small, time-limited grants intended to support academics, community agencies and providers to collaboratively pursue research on issues that urban communities identify as important. These may include identifying unmet needs, exploring or testing effective solutions to problems they experience, or increasing our understanding of the forces that shape people's health and the way these forces affect people's health.

Community-based research strives to promote the research capacity of the community, to increase its understanding of urban health issues it identifies as important, and to identify effective solutions. The type of research activities supported through the Enabling Grants include: the creation of sustainable research partnerships with academic and community partners; the identification and development of research proposals addressing relevant urban health issues; small, targeted research studies (for example: needs assessments, interventions, tracking the impact of policy changes at a local level).

In order to qualify for funding, projects must correspond with the broader goals of the Wellesley Institute and focus on the social determinants of health, with a particular emphasis on: housing and homelessness, social exclusion, and income and income distribution.

Please note: Enabling grants are not restricted by geography, although preference is given to projects within the greater Toronto area. The intent of the enabling grants is to support time-limited projects; as such applicants are requested to limit their proposals to project that could be reasonably achieved within a time frame of 12 to 18 months. Grantees are expected to prepare and submit an interim report and a final report for the project.

Submission Requirements

Your package must include:

• 1 Completed CBR Enabling Grant Application Form
• 1 Project Abstract (1 page maximum)
• 1 Letter of Intent (5 page maximum)
• 1 Detailed timeline/work plan see appendix 1
• 1 Detailed one page budget (with justification) see appendix 1 in application form
• CVs of the all Investigators (2 page maximum per CV)
• 1 Annual report of trustee organization

Send 15 hardcopies of the package and 1 annual report to:

Wellesley Institute, Enabling Grants Program
45 Charles St. East Suite 101
Toronto, Ontario
M4Y 1S2

And email 1 electronic copy to: grants@wellesleyinstitute.com