If your project is selected for a grant, here’s what you can expect:
- An email from CIRA to the primary contact in your application confirming your project has been selected and the amount of funding available.
- When you confirm your organization is ready to deliver the project as proposed, we provide a contract to sign, request your banking details and summarize how we will present your project publicly in a press release.
- When the contract is fully executed, the funds are sent via electronic funds transfer.
- Invitation to an onboarding session where we explain the project relationship, including our expectations around co-promotion of your project, and an opportunity to ask questions.
- Inclusion in a press release and promotion on CIRA’s communication channels.
Conditions of funding detailed in the project contract include:
- Written approval from CIRA prior to any alterations in the project plan or timeline.
- Appropriate acknowledgement of CIRA’s Net Good Grants program in communication materials and events.
- Submission of a final report within three months of project completion.
- If there are unspent funds upon project completion, CIRA will request the surplus funds within 30 days.
FAQ for grant recipients
Projects with CIRA tend to run for about a year. If your project runs into delays and you require an extension, please reach out to us as soon as possible. Written approval from CIRA is required prior to any major alterations in the project plan, timeline or budget. Longer extensions may require consultation with the board members that reviewed and approved your original application, so keep that in mind.
If you have a way to achieve the original project objectives through a different set of activities, please reach out to us with your proposed alternative plan and budget. We will review and confirm whether this is possible. If the situation is such that you simply can no longer deliver the project, we would ask that the funds be returned.
If there’s something related to the project that will help achieve the original objectives of your project that you’d like to propose as an expenditure, please send us an updated budget and rationale for our consideration. Otherwise, the funds must be returned to CIRA.
Your final report, including a financial report, is expected within 90 days of your project end date. Sample final report questions are available on our website. Please log on to SurveyMonkey Apply to complete your report. Grant recipients are also required to report on their actual revenues and expenses as compared to their budget and must explain any variances. We’ll contact you in advance of your project end date to provide you with the budget vs. actual template that you must fill out and upload to SurveyMonkey Apply as part of your final report.
Once your report has been submitted and reviewed by CIRA, we’ll set up a project reflection meeting to discuss the project’s outcomes and your experience with CIRA. We love to tell the stories of the projects we fund, and we’ll share your project outcomes on our website, as well as any photos and links that you provide. Please visit our project list and recent featured stories for examples.