Canada Healthy Communities Initiative - Deadline Mar 3, 2021

Healthy communities are dependent on shared places and spaces, allowing people to move and gather safely, productively, and creatively. COVID-19 has seriously constrained our access and use of these spaces in communities across Canada.

Communities have been extraordinarily resourceful and resilient in improvising temporary and longer-lasting solutions to the challenges of COVID-19. Many are undertaking work for immediate needs but also thinking about how to build pandemic-resilient spaces for the future. We are seeing new digital solutions, that allow people and communities to feel connected, safe and healthy all while respecting public health measures and norms such as physical distancing and mask-wearing.

The Healthy Communities Initiative is a $31 million investment from the Government of Canada to transform public spaces in response to COVID-19.

The Healthy Communities Initiative will provide funding to a broad range of organizations, including local governments, charities, Indigenous communities and nonprofits, for projects, programming and services that help communities : 

• create safe and vibrant public spaces, 
• improve mobility options and 
• provide innovative digital solutions to connect people and improve health. 

Click here for more information and to apply.