CMHC Affordable Housing Centre
The Affordable Housing Centre at CMHC has a team of experts in every region of Canada, offering financial assistance, and Canada’s most comprehensive inventory of information and resources, to help groups develop affordable housing. Click here for more information.

CMHC Seed Funding Program Details
CMHC is accepting applications for Seed Funding right now. CMHC Seed Funding offers financial assistance to housing proponents who are in the early stages of developing an affordable housing project. To learn more visit the Affordable Housing Centre. To download an application form go directly to CMHC's Seed Funding web page. Decisions on applications are made within two weeks.
 
CMHC Proposal Development Funding (PDF)
Proposal Development Funding (PDF) loans help with the up-front expenses incurred during the process of developing an affordable housing project proposal. A PDF loan enables housing proponents to carry out the activities required to bring their proposal to the point where they can apply for mortgage financing. Click here for more details.

Eva's Initiatives’ Awards for Ending Youth Homelessness

Four Awards of $25 000 each will go to organizations working with homeless youth. With generous support from the Sprott Foundation in collaboration with Virgin Unite Canada, Eva's Initiatives has launched a new awards program to draw attention to efforts to end youth homelessness.  Awards of $25 000 each will go to four organizations that are:

• Moving beyond responding to the most basic needs of homeless and at-risk youth
• Demonstrating significant impacts in the lives of vulnerable youth
• Delivering programs or services aimed at preventing youth homelessness 
• Breaking the cycle of homelessness among youth by integrating supports such as: housing, education, employment, family connections, and interventions to address mental health concerns and/or addictions.

Deadline for applications: January 20, 2012 at 9 pm EST. Applications are now available online at  www.evasinitiatives.com. For more information or to receive an application by email, contact: awards@evas.ca

Law Foundation 2012 Projects Initiative
The Law Foundation has established a projects budget of $750,000 for 2012 for one-time projects. The Law Foundation encourages applicants and projects that reflect the diversity of British Columbia. Who can apply? A non-profit organization in British Columbia whose proposed time-limited project falls within one or more of the five statutory mandated areas of the Law Foundation: legal aid; legal education; legal research; law reform; and law libraries. Click here for more information.

Vancity Social Enterprise Leadership Bursaries
Each year, Vancity provides Leadership Bursary grants to social enterprises. The Social Enterprise Leadership Bursary Fund is designed to enhance the success of social enterprises and to strengthen the social enterprise sector by supporting professional development and capacity building of social enterprise leaders and managers.The Fund provides financial assistance to support social enterprise leaders and managers to build their knowledge and skills related to the operation, management and growth of social enterprises.

The fund is open to individuals from organizations that have received funding or financing for social enterprise activities from Vancity and/or the Enterprising Non-profits Program (enp) and are currently engaged in the operations and ongoing development of a social enterprise. Please see the attached for further information. Application deadline is September 23. The next application round will be held in late February 2012.