Human Development Fund Criteria

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CRITERION FOR GRANTS:

The program or project to be funded must be harmonious with a biblical vision of justice and peace.

PRIORITIES FOR GRANTS

Projects that go beyond helping people directly and are clearly designed to change systems,
so that the projects will promote justice and peace more effectively.

Projects that seek to empower the poor and marginalized and, when feasible, involve these
in planning and executing the project.

Note: In awarding grants the Fund will exercise a preference in favor of projects originating
out of Basilian houses or institutions and/or in which individual Basilians are actively involved.

EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS

A proportion of the Fund, not to exceed 15% in any year, may also be distributed in grants to educational projects which involve their participants actively in the promotion of peace and justice. In awarding any such grants the Fund will exercise a preference in favor of projects originating out of Basilian houses or institutions and/or in which individual Basilians are actively involved.

ADDITIONAL POSITIVE ELEMENTS

• It promotes participation by the clients and develops leadership.
• It is a new and creative initiative with reasonable hope of success.
• It has the potential to lift people out of poverty into financial independence.
• It can serve as a model worthy of being imitated in other places.
• It responds to a profound need which benefits significantly large numbers of poor people.

PROCESS IN DETERMINING AWARDS

The Superior General and his Council appoint 5 Basilians as a committee to review the applications received and to make recommendations for awarding grants. Members of the committee are not permitted to either sponsor or provide endorsement for any project.

The Secretary General issues applications to those who request. Applications are available on the Basilian Web page www.basilian.org under Resources / Fund Applications. When six (6) copies of the completed application are received at the General Administrative Offices of the Basilian Fathers in Toronto, one copy of each is forwarded to each member of the committee and one copy of the application remains on file at the Administrative Offices. In the May of each year the committee will meet to review the projects and make recommendations to the Superior General and his Council.

In June of each year the Superior General and his Council receive and study the recommendations of the Grants Committee. Based on their recommendation and any subsequent information, the awarding of funding is authorized. The Secretary General, by 30 June, informs all applicants of the decision made regarding their project and, by 31 July, the Treasurer General issues and posts a cheque for the amount awarded by the Superior General and his Council.

HOW TO APPLY FOR FUNDING

1. ONLY the current version of the form provided by the Basilian Fathers and photocopies will be accepted. (A computer generated replication of the official application form is acceptable.)


2. Limit your application to the space provided. Significantly relevant supplementary material may be submitted which will be utilized at the discretion of the committee.


3. Submit proof of tax-exemption with the application or a supporting official document indicating that the organization is not-for-profit.


4. Applications must be presented in English and typed.


5. Applications must be complete and clear.


6. Six (6) copies of the application form must be received by 01 April for consideration. No proposals will be accepted after this date. Mail the completed forms to:
   
   The Basilian Human Development Fund
   Cardinal Flahiff Basilian Centre
   95 St. Joseph Street
   Toronto, Ontario M5S 3C2


7. Normally grants do not exceed $20,000 Canadian dollars


8. A current letter of endorsement from a Basilian, is required for each application.


9. If the organization has previously received funds from the Basilian Human Development Fund, then "Section 3: Grant History" must be completed.


10. Grants are in Canadian dollars. Funds for use outside Canada are paid in U.S. dollars at the rate of exchange the day the cheque is issued.


11. Basilian Human Development funds will not be granted for construction/renovation of buildings or purchase of land. This applies to all projects regardless of geographic location of the project. The Canada Revenue Agency does not allow charities to fund such projects.

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