Update:
The provincial government has announced it will spend $83 million through the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) to assist non-profits during COVID-19.
In a press release issued today, Ford's government said the funding will provide grants to help eligible non-profit organizations, including food banks, child and youth programs, and the Royal Canadian Legion branches to recover from COVID-19 and continue to deliver their programming.
The OTF's Resilient Communities Fund will provide grants of up to $150,000 to help eligible non-profit organizations rebuild and recover from the impacts of COVID-19 with support for:
- Equipping board members and employees with supports to implement new approaches, prepare for change and build resiliency (e.g. organizational training and coaching, strategic planning and implementation, research & development, mental and physical health and wellbeing supports);
- Improving and increasing ability to access financial resources and develop new and/or alternative sources of revenues (e.g. develop fundraising plans, identify fundraising and financial technology resources, seek opportunities for public-private partnerships and social finance);
- Adapting or re-imagining the delivery of programs and services to meet the needs of the community, employees and volunteers (e.g. identify new health and safety processes and required personal protective equipment, technology supports, staffing and volunteer recruitment and training);
- Procuring equipment or renovating spaces to meet the changing needs of the organization, its programs and services, and adapt to new ways of working (e.g. equipment and/or renovations to meet changing technology health and safety, and service delivery requirements); and
- Creating and/or adopting new approaches for organizations to work together to meet the needs of communities (e.g. peer learning, professional development, networking, resource, knowledge and data sharing).
Original story:
Premier Doug Ford is set to make an announcement at 1 p.m. at Queen's Park today.
Ford will be joined by Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister Lisa MacLeod to make the announcement.
Village Media will carry the livestream, so stay tuned.
