An exciting opportunity for non-profit organizations and local community organizations!! Aviva Canada, one of Canada’s leading Insurers, is now in its 9^th year of offering the Aviva Community Fund to invest in charitable community initiatives across Canada! Associations and non-profit organizations are invited to submit their ideas and projects for potential funding in one of three categories

• Community Development – Education, skills training, culture, research and basic needs
• Community Health – Health, sport, active living and play
• Community Resilience – Environment, climate, disaster relief and prevention

Ideas can be small (requiring funding up to $50,000) or large (up to $100,000). Once your idea is submitted, spread the word – in person and online, because your ideas will be voted on by the public. Each person who signs up can cast 18 votes for the project or projects that excite them most.

This year, in celebration of Canada150, Aviva has created a new category exclusively for young social entrepreneurs aged 18-25 with the chance to be awarded up to $150,000 for projects focused on climate change and the environment with broad reach and scalability in Canada. If you or someone in your organization know a rising young star with big ideas for the environment, this is an amazing opportunity we hope you will pass along.

Idea submission opens September 13^th and closes October 2^nd with voting running from October 10^th – 19^th. To learn more about the Aviva Community Fund, visit www.avivacommunityfund.org. If you’re excited to submit and want to learn more about the process and how to craft an eligible idea: Click here to download the Idea Guide. If you do submit an idea, be sure to let us know by emailing clientservices@cadeinsurance.com so we can be a Broker Supporter of your initiative!

Good luck!

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Watersheds Canada is a federally incorporated non-profit organization and registered Canadian charity committed to providing programs in communities across the country to engage and help shoreline owners enhance and protect the health of lakes and rivers. Their proposal to the Aviva Community Fund is for funding to assist in the development of their Natural Edge Native Planting Software and App. The App will be a free turn-key tool for other non-profit organizations working on waterfront sustainability, allowing them to provide on-site, real-time personalized planting plans to property owners – enhancing the ever important ‘ribbon of life’ that protects Canada’s water.

We hope you will click the link below to learn more about the Natural Edge Native Planting Software and App and cast your votes in support of this great initiative!

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