Poverty reduction grants open for second intake

VICTORIA, B.C. – Local governments will now be able to apply for the second round of the Province’s Poverty Reduction Planning & Action Program grants to help develop local strategies and solutions to address poverty.

The grants are part of TogetherBC, British Columbia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. The province has provided $5 million to the Union of B.C Municipalities for the program initiated last year.

In the last intake for the grants, 63 local governments received a total of $1.6 million for 34 poverty reduction plans and projects.

The government will fund new projects, plans, and strategies that are focusing on TogetherBC’s priority actions areas, which are the following:

The projects must involve key community partners, like community-based poverty reduction organizations, people with experience of poverty, business, local First Nations, or Indigenous organizations.

There are two streams of funding:

Applications for the second intake are being accepted until midnight, Pacific Time, on March 5th, 2021.

More information can be found on the Union of BC Municipalities website.