AgriSpirit Fund

Note: New applications will be accepted in the spring of 2009.

Successful community improvement projects receive between $5 000 and $25 000 for community improvements such as emergency services equipment, playgrounds, food banks, recreation centres and care homes.

Eligibility Criteria

For your project to be considered for funding, your organization must:

• be a registered charity; or
• be an agricultural society; or
• be a municipality or partnered with a municipal government who agrees to receive the money contributed, control the expenditures and issue official tax receipts in the municipality’s name.

Farm Credit Canada prefers to partner with organizations that:

• benefit more than one community;
• encourage volunteerism;
• offer recognition for FCC involvement.

Eligible Activities

Your project must:

• enhance the quality of life for people who live in rural communities;
• be a capital project (equipment, building funds, etc.);
• be completed by December 2010;
• be located in rural Canada;
• benefit a community with a population less than 100 000 people;
• allow FCC to put up a permanent sign.

FCC will not support projects or activities that:

• take place outside of Canada;
• have received support from the FCC AgriSpirit Fund in the past;
• are being implemented to contribute to operating budgets or debt reduction campaigns;
• are undertaken by private foundations or third parties raising funds for a charity, e.g. Lion's Club, Rotary Club, Knights of Columbus, etc.;
• are taking place in support of individual endeavors;
• only provide benefit to members of a particular religion, political party or social organization;
• benefit private schools;
• are undertaken by organizations whose primary focus is advocating a particular religious, social, moral, political or economic point of view;
• sell tickets for fundraising events;
• are likely to have a significant adverse environmental effect.

Summary

True rural spirit makes up the core of the Farm Credit Canada AgriSpirit Fund - $750 000 in capital funding for community improvement projects. The FCC AgriSpirit Fund is about making life better for people in rural communities.

Visit FCC's Web site for more information and to complete the online application form.

Additional information:

• Preference may be given to organizations that have a focus on agriculture.
• FCC employees and their immediate family members are not eligible to complete the application for AgriSpirit funding.
• Only online applications will be evaluated.
• The completion of an environmental assessment may be required as part of the evaluation process.
• Preference will be given to organizations that do not already receive funding from the United Way.

Manitoba Contact(s):
See National Contact.

 

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National Contact(s):
Corporate Office
Farm Credit Canada (FCC)
1800 Hamilton Street
P.O. Box 4320
Regina, Saskatchewan  S4P 4L3
Telephone: 306-780-8100
Toll-free (information): 1-888-332-3301
TTY (hearing impaired): 306-780-6974
E-mail: csc@fcc-fac.ca
Web site: http://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/index.asp
Hours of operation: 7:30 to 5:00, Monday to Friday.
Find your local office at http://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/aboutus/findus_e.asp