We strengthen the community by investing in projects that:

• emphasize prevention rather than remediation
• encourage networking and collaboration among organizations 
• demonstrate innovative or interdisciplinary approaches 
• develop local leadership capacity 
• reflect diversity and inclusivity 
• provide leveraging possibilities

As a public charitable foundation, we fund projects that:

• have registered charity status in good standing under the Income Tax Act
• provide services which directly benefit the citizens of London and Middlesex County 
• demonstrate fiscal and managerial responsibility, and financial need 
• make services available without discrimination

Don't have charitable status? Learn more about grant eligibility for organziations without charitable status. 

Unless stated through a specific grant program, we do not normally fund the following:

• individuals 
• annual campaigns 
• major capital projects 
• retroactive expenses 
• deficits 
• endowments 
• fundraising events or activities 
• core operating costs 
• capital building campaigns 
• activities that serve primarily the membership or purposes of religious or political organizations 
• seminars, conferences, workshops, festivals or the publication of studies 
• tours or travel outside the community
• ongoing general advertising or marketing of an organization (marketing costs will only be considered as part of a grant to a specific project)