Call summary :

Overview

The ImpactWX Genesis Grant provides small grants to people and community organizations that are focused on developing new ideas related to severe weather response and awareness.

ImpactWX is a Toronto-based social impact fund with a mission to enable organizations that, through scientific understanding and public awareness, work to improve people’s response and safety during severe weather events. We are proud to have experience partnering with world-class organizations that actively move the needle on our understanding of severe weather and are thrilled to introduce a new stream of community-oriented funding through the ImpactWX Genesis Grant.

Aligned with our mission, this fund seeks to support initiatives that can improve people’s response and safety during severe weather events. The ImpactWX Genesis Grant has a specific interest in initiatives that promote innovation, creativity and opportunities, as aligned with our core principles.

In 2024, ImpactWX Genesis Grant awarded four successful projects with $25,000.

We are accepting applications for the 2025 ImpactWX Genesis Grant until Wednesday, January 15, 2025.

Core Principles / Focus

Create Opportunities
- Create opportunities for community and public engagement
- Enable educational and learning experiences

Promote Innovation
- Promote human-centred innovation and design
- Develops and tests new concepts and ideas

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

We invite applications from individuals, groups and collaborators such as local community groups, researchers, artists, collectives, non-profits, public sector agencies, and registered charities. If you are not already a charity, you must include a Canadian charitable trustee as a partner.? A charitable trustee is required to administer funds, but it is not necessary to be a programming partner in the project.?
Private for-profit businesses may not be the sole applicant but can be part of an application as a partner.

Geography

Applicant must be located in Canada; impacts must be felt in Canada.

Duration

The grant duration is 12 months; ideas/projects should be achievable within 12 months of receiving the grant.
Grant can cover:
- Operational and staff costs of directly delivering the project, core activities and/or ongoing work
- Research development
- Planning, public consultation, and community outreach
- Capital costs
- Programming and event costs
- Honorariums to people directly associated with implementing the project
- Website development or online activities

Grant will not fund:
- Previously incurred costs
- Contributions to a general fundraising campaign
- Activities or projects that duplicate existing work