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Ontario Youth Wellness Grant: Explore Stream

The FFBC is proud to announce the launch of our new grant with up to $25,000 to support young active Black communities.

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Building a
Philanthropic Home for Black Communities

Canada’s first ever philanthropic foundation dedicated to supporting Black communities.

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Real change
begins when inequality
ends

We’re building a world where black communities get an equal chance to succeed and prosper.

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who we are.

Make a Difference

We invest in change-making, working alongside Canadian community, philanthropic, political, and business organizations to ensure that Black-led, Black-serving, and Black-focused (B3) non-profit, charitable, and grassroots organizations have the sustained resources and infrastructures they need to make a meaningful impact.

Issuing Grants, Resource & Research Opportunities

We award grants to organizations serving Black people in Canada to resource programs or research that seeks to address long-standing issues in priority areas.

Collaborating with Key Stakeholders

We advocate within the philanthropic sector and with all levels of government with a specific mandate to allocate and distribute resources toward Black people in Canada.

Influencing Government & Corporate Policy

We impact societal change and foster social innovation through direct action, enabling strategies, funding and investment policies and informing decision-making.

WhERE ARE WE

The Time is Now for Change.

Foundation for Black Communities exists to ensure every Black person in Canada can thrive and all Black communities have agency in defining their own future.

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OUR WORK IN ACTION

Programs & Grants

Our programs and grants exist to ensure every Black person in Canada can thrive; and all Black communities have agency in defining their own future.

Vaccine Literacy Campaign

The COVID-19 Vaccine Literacy Campaign provides financial support in the form of $10,000 grants to over 15 Black-led, Black-serving and Black-focused organizations located in Alberta and British Columbia.

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Ontario Youth Wellness Grant (OYWG)

A funding opportunity to support Black communities to explore ideas, projects, structures, and systems that positively impact youth wellness through sports and recreation in Ontario’s Black communities.

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