STUDENTS: Community-Engaged Initiative Grants

The CCP Community-Engaged Initiatives (CEI) Grants are financial awards ranging up to $1000. They are designed to ignite and strengthen student and community partnerships in the City of Toronto. The grants encourage innovative community-engaged projects in partnership with community organizations. They provide an opportunity for students to develop interpersonal and professional relationships, build project and volunteer management skills, and engage with communities that they identify with.

We’re looking for projects that:

• occur in collaboration with a Toronto-based community partner (nonprofit or public sector organization)
• support community-identified goals, needs and initiatives
• encourage short-term or long-term involvement in the community and/or civic engagement
• engage students and community members beyond the planning committee
• align with the definition of community-engaged learning

We use these criteria:

• project takes place in partnership with a community, or a grassroots, nonprofit or public organization
• project responds to community-defined priorities
• the relationship is reciprocal, so that both the community partner and the students benefit from the engagement
• students undertake reflection to connect their community engagement to the learning outcomes of the initiative

We support you:

• prepare you to engage respectfully with the community (e.g. training, orientation)
• include meaningful opportunities for you to reflect on, discuss, and learn from their experience
• include opportunities for you to create or strengthen reciprocal partnerships with community partners