The Healthy Communities Fund (HCF) Grant Program provides non-capital funding to organizations for the delivery of integrated health promotion initiatives in communities across Ontario. The Program plays a key role in helping to achieve a vision of Healthy Communities working together and Ontarians leading healthy and active lives through the funding of projects that address two or more of the following priorities (in alphabetical order):
- Healthy eating;
- Injury prevention;
- Mental health promotion;
- Physical activity, sport and recreation;
- Substance and/or alcohol misuse prevention; and
- Reducing tobacco use/exposure.
The goal of the HCF Grant Program is to support projects that serve or benefit specific populations that may not have equitable access to health promotion programming in their communities, and in turn, provide greater access to these programs and services where they are needed most in Ontario.
Eligible applicants are required to work in partnership with other organizations and take an integrated approach to improving the health and wellness of one or more communities. Interested organizations can apply for a local/regional grant or a provincial grant depending on their delivery capacity and the reach or scope of their proposed project.
See the list of previous Healthy Communities Fund (HCF) recipients.
Grant Opportunities
Approved Grants