STAGE 1 – Letter of Intent

February 28th is the annual deadline for submission of a letter of intent. If you believe that your project falls within the guiding principles and decision-making criteria set forth above, please submit a letter, not to exceed two pages, outlining your proposal. In the letter, please include:

• the registered name of the organization and the Canada Revenue Agency charitable number of the organization or the registered sponsor
• a statement of the issues or community priorities that the project will address
• a concise description of the activities to be undertaken
• a brief budget including information on other funding sources and the amount requested from the Phoenix Foundation

Please attach a copy of your most recent financial statements with the letter. Mail your completed submission to The Grants Committee, Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communities, Box 1012, Grand Forks, B.C.  V0H 1H0.

Your letter of intent will be reviewed to assess eligibility and viability. This preliminary process takes two-four weeks. If there is potential to fund the project, your organization will be invited to submit a formal application by March 31st.

  STAGE 2 – Grant Application  

Those who are invited to submit a formal application will be provided with an application form to complete for the March 31st deadline. The application should be no more than four pages in length, using the format set forth by the Foundation. All applications MUST include a completed sponsorship application, if applicable.

Your formal application will be reviewed by the Grants Committee of the Phoenix Foundation. A representative of the Grants Committee may contact your organization to gain a complete understanding of your project; this may include a site visit. At the conclusion of the review process, the Grants Committee makes its recommendations to the Board of Directors of the Phoenix Foundation for their approval. You can expect to receive an answer to your application within six weeks of the application due dates.

Letters of intent and/or grant applications may also be submitted online to phoenix-foundation@telus.net

2010 Call for Proposals back to top

The 2009 VitalSigns report provides direction for our 2010 call to Grant Seekers.  Of the eleven Key Issues examined in town hall meetings and via electronic survey, hundreds of citizen graders throughout the Boundary and our youth graders, identified three priority issues for action...our most compelling needs. 
This year we are seeking proposals that address the priority areas of:

• Health and Wellness
• the Environment
• Work

In addition to our usual ‘What We Fund’ criteria, proposals that seek to address root causes (causes of causes) of issues are sought and/or proposals that demonstrate Upstream thinking (see description below).
We will be looking for cross-sector collaboration, partnerships, holistic thinking and leveraging of other dollars.
Letter of Intent Deadline: February 28, 2010.

Upstream Thinking
A man, walking along a riverbank, suddenly sees a person flailing his arms and hears him pleading for help as he bobs in the water while being pushed downstream. The man on the bank dives into the water, swims to the victim and rescues him by pulling him ashore. When the man turns toward the river, once again he hears someone screaming for help. Then another, and another. One after the other, the man pulls victims from the river.

Exhausted, and pulling yet another victim to shore, he notices a woman walking by. “Help me!” he pleads. “All these people are drowning and I have to do something to save them. More people are falling in and need help. Look!” he says, pointing to the river where more victims are in the water and needing help.

Immediately, the woman starts to run upstream along the bank.

“Where are you going?” he screams at the woman. “I need help now!”

“I am helping right now,” says the woman. “I’m going upstream to find out how they’re falling into the river and to prevent that!”