Please see relevant grant application form and guidelines for application deadlines.

Social Development Stream Objectives

Advance Reconciliation, Anti-Racism and Support to Equity-Deserving Communities

  • Directly address the Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action or the Calls for Justice for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people (MMIWG2S)
  • Address racism and discrimination
  • Provide safe(r), more accessible and inclusive spaces and services for equity-deserving groups, such as First Nations, Métis, Inuit, 2SLGBTQIAP+ people, ethnocultural minorities, newcomers, people with disabilities/disabled people, older adults, and youth.

Improve Food Security and Sustainability

  • Increase access to diverse, healthy, and culturally appropriate food
  • Strengthen food systems
  • Promote opportunities towards food sovereignty including urban agriculture

Increase the Safety of Substance Use and Access to Addictions Support

  • Prevent and reduce harms and stigma associated with substance use
  • Connect active users and their families to appropriate addiction supports

Prevent and Respond to Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence

  • Establish or improve supports and services for survivors, perpetrators, and their families to facilitate healing
  • Emergency response supports for those fleeing situations of domestic violence and intimate partner violence
  • Recognize and prevent domestic and intimate partner violence

Enhance Community Safety

  • Focus on upstream prevention and early intervention to reduce risks and improve community wellbeing
  • Engage community members and neighbourhoods to respond to incidents and help improve safety

 

We strongly recommend applicants contact Community Investments at the City of Regina to determine which grant or funding stream is most appropriate for their organization or specific initiative. In some cases, applicants may be eligible to apply for more than one grant.

Community Partner Grant

Community Partner grants provide up to four years of core operation and core program funding to non-profit organizations that play a unique, strategic and essential role in the community.

Note: All applicants looking to apply for Community Partner status must have been previously funded for three consecutive years through the Community Investments "Annual Activity Grant" Program.

New Applicants

Organizations wishing to apply for a Community Partner grant must first meet with a Coordinator in the Parks, Recreation & Cultural Services Department to discuss eligibility requirements. City of Regina Administration will direct the organization to the most appropriate stream, as well as provide the organization with the Community Partner Application Form.

Application Deadline (Social Development):

  • See application form for deadline.
Grant Recipients:

If you require more information, please contact Community Investments at 306-777-7507 or email .

Annual Activity Grant

Annual Activity grants provide funding for eligible recurring or ongoing activities offered by non-profit organizations.

There are two levels of funding available through this grant program:

  • Minor Funding: Up to $10,000, for initiatives that are completed within 12 months.
  • Major Funding: Over $10,000 and up to $30,000, for initiatives that are completed within 12 months. Special exceptions can be made for grants that have a unique nature and demonstrate that it will take longer than 12 months to complete. In some cases, organizations may receive approval to spend their allocated funds over a period of up to 24 months.

New Applicants

If your organization is looking to receive funding for recurring ongoing events or series/season, apply for an Annual Activity grant. We encourage your organization to refer to the New Initiative/Annual Activity Guidelines before completing an application form.

Application Deadline: 

  • The deadline for 2025 applications is February 6, 2025, at 4:45 p.m.

Applications Forms:

  • The application deadline has passed.

Adjudication: The Social Development Grant Review Committee reviews applications for the Annual Activity Grant program.

Grant Recipients:

If you require more information, please contact Community Investments at 306-777-7507 or email .

Returning Applicants

If your organization received funding last year through this program, you are required to submit an Annual Activity Funding Report.

Funding Report Deadline (Social Development): 
  • See application form for deadline.

If you have not received your Annual Activity Funding Report, please contact Community Investments at 306-777-7507 or email .

New Initiative Grant

New Initiative grants provide funding for eligible initiatives offered by non-profit organizations.

There are two levels of funding available through this grant program:

  • Minor Funding: Up to $10,000, for initiatives that are completed within 12 months.
  • Major Funding: Over $10,000 and up to $30,000, for initiatives that are completed within 12 months. Special exceptions can be made for grants that have a unique nature and demonstrate that it will take longer than 12 months to complete. In some cases, organizations may receive approval to spend their allocated funds over a period of up to 24 months.

New Applicants

If your organization is looking to receive funding for one-time or first-time programs/projects, organizational development or capital initiatives, apply for a New Initiative grant. We encourage your organization to refer to the New Initiative/Annual Activity Guidelines before completing an application form.

Application Deadline:

  • The deadline for 2025 applications is February 6, 2025, at 4:45 p.m.

Applications Forms:

  • The application deadline has passed.

Adjudication: The Social Development Grant Review Committee reviews applications for the New Initiative Grant program.

Grant Recipients:

Returning Applicants

If your organization received funding last year through this program, you are required to report on your year of activities. This report is to be submitted within 90 days of the completion of the initiative.

Follow-up Reports:

If you require more information, please contact Community Investments at 306-777-7507 or email .

Emergency Treatment Fund Grant

In October 2024, the federal government announced the Emergency Treatment Fund (ETF) to address the opioid and toxic drug supply crisis. After engaging with the community, the Administration applied for a program focused on enhanced mobile, peer-supported outreach. Regina-based non-profits can now apply for funding to purchase vehicles and safe supplies through the Emergency Treatment Fund Grant.

The first phase of the funding is to be completed by March 31, 2025, and will provide transportation funding and safe supplies funding for community outreach programs that need vehicles to transport their clients to receive support services.

Funding

Eligible organizations may request either $54,000 in funding (for one vehicle) or $108,000 (for two vehicles). The funding provided must result in the purchase of (a) vehicle(s). Funded organizations are therefore responsible, if required, for supplying additional funds required to support the full purchase of a vehicle.

Eligible organizations may request a maximum of $2000 each for safe supplies.

Deadline & Timeline

Due to the urgent nature of this funding, the review, adjudication, and approval of the process will follow an expedited timeline. The planned approval timelines are as follows:

  • Grant Application Deadline: March 14, 2025
  • Grant Adjudication: March 18, 2025
  • Notification of Results: March 19, 2025
  • Funding Dispersed: within 10 days of receipt of signed Grant Agreement

Application

  • Download the Program Guidelines and Application Form.
  • Please note the guidelines and application have been updated as of March 6, 2025. Please ensure your submission adheres to any changes highlighted in yellow.

If you require more information, please contact Community Investments at 306-777-7507 or email .

Harm Reduction Grant

The Harm Reduction Grant is designed to promote the well-being of individuals and communities in Regina through increased access to harm reduction interventions. This grant will allow community-based organizations to fund existing or new harm reduction initiatives that support vulnerable community members and reduce harm associated with drug use in our city.

There are two levls of funding available through this grant program:

  • Minor Funding: up to $50,000
  • Major Funding: up to $150,000

New & Returning Applicants

We encourage your organization to refer to the 2025 Harm Reduction Grant Guidelines before filling out an application form. Organizations can apply for:

  • New programs/projects/services
  • Support for existing programs/projects/services, and/or
  • Capital initiatives, including renovations and capital equipment

Application Deadline: 

  • June 19, 2025.

Application Form: 

  • The Harm Reduction Grant Program is now closed for 2025. The deadline was June 19, 2025.
Follow-up Reports: 
Grant Recipients:

If you require more information, please contact Community Investments at 306-777-7507 or email .

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