In celebration of Olympic Day, acknowledged yearly by the IOC on June 23, Staff Canada is opening purposes for the Staff Canada Olympic Day Grant for Canadian faculties with the objective of empowering college students to play and keep in sport.
Sport brings communities collectively, teaches us management and honest play, and fuels our well being and well-being. However usually there are boundaries that imply that younger Canadians both “can’t” or “received’t’” take part in sport. We imagine the COC performs a task in making certain entry and a high quality expertise in sport in any respect ranges.
The Staff Canada Olympic Day Grant supplies funding to extend entry to sport in faculties whereas additionally giving athletes the chance to encourage college students by their tales.
Athletes have the chance to apply tenacity, dedication, and perseverance each day. They perceive what it’s prefer to face challenges and adversity. By sharing these experiences with college students, by the rules of sport, college students can join their very own lives to the Olympic Values of respect, friendship and excellence extra simply.
HOW IT WORKS
A complete of 5 grants of $5,000 can be found for Canadian faculties throughout the nation to assist college students play and keep in sport. Profitable faculties will even obtain a 90-minute Staff Canada athlete talking engagement to encourage college students to take part in sport and develop the talents to thrive and succeed of their day by day lives.
The COC might be photographing and recording the athlete talking engagements to share highlights on Staff Canada’s channels on June 23, to encourage extra faculties to empower their college students to play and keep in sport and have fun Olympic Day.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
The applicant should be a person who works for a provincially registered college/board/division in Canada together with:
– Elementary, intermediate, or secondary publicly funded faculties
– First nation, metis, and Inuit elementary, intermediate, secondary faculties and academic packages
– Instructional establishments in Canada
Please observe: faculties are permitted to submit multiple software, nonetheless in an effort to distribute funds equitably our means to award a number of grants to the identical college is proscribed.
ADDITIONAL CRITERIA
1. The appliance should exhibit how the applicant will use the funding to empower college students to have interaction in a minimum of one of many 4 Olympic Day pillars:
Transfer: encourage college students to take part in sport or bodily exercise.
Study: promote the position of sport in society and the significance of the Olympic Values.
Uncover: present college students with the chance to find new sports activities.
Collectively for a greater world: encourage college students to contribute to a greater world by sport by sustainability, inclusion, and peace.
2. Funding should be used earlier than Might 1st, 2024.
3. Applicant will work with the COC to get all rights and permissions wanted for COC to report and share athlete talking engagement occasion at college on social channels.
4. Settlement to finish and undergo COC two impression experiences, December 2023 (interim), and Might 2024 (last).
Interim report will embody budgetary progress and key statistics together with attain, impression and qualitative suggestions.
Last report will embody long term neighborhood impression information, and extra in depth qualitative suggestions.
NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF FUNDING POSSIBILITIES
Registration charges (e.g., Ski-lift tickets, swimming pool entry passes, recreation facility or gymnasium passes, skilled improvement alternatives, expeditions)
Programming prices (e.g., Providing after college sport alternatives)
Staffing prices (e.g., Contract for neighborhood part-time programming workers, launch time for employees)
Buy of apparatus
Rental of house or transportation to close by or adjoining venue
Different bills as deemed applicable to permit sport to be extra protected, inclusive, and barrier-free at college
IMPORTANT DATES
Utility interval: March 7 – April 4, 2023
Utility deadline: April 4, 2023 – 23:59pm EST
Utility revision and faculty notification: April 13 – 28, 2023
Staff Canada talking engagement at college: Might 22 – June 13, 2023
Report #1: December 2023
Report #2: Might 2024
All purposes should be submitted by no later than April 4, 2023, by 23:59 Jap Time
WHAT IS OLYMPIC DAY?
Acknowledged yearly on June 23, Olympic Day is a worldwide celebration of the Olympic Motion. Primarily based on the pillars of “Transfer, study, uncover – Collectively for a greater world”, Olympic Day is a day to advertise a wholesome and lively life-style.
CONTACT US
When you have any questions relating to this program, you may all the time contact the Olympic Schooling crew at [email protected].