Emergency Community Support Fund

Service offers funding for:

• increasing volunteer based home deliveries of groceries and medications
• scaling up help lines that provide information and support
• helping vulnerable Canadians access government benefits
• providing training, supplies, and other required supports to volunteers
• replacing in-person, one-on-one contact and social gatherings with virtual contact through phone calls, texts, teleconferences, or the Internet

• address a pressing social inclusion or well-being need caused by COVID-19, by supplying the necessaries of life and supporting activities of daily living
• serves one or more vulnerable populations during COVID-19
• can be carried out in a short timeframe with a reasonable budget
• can attest to not having secured funds to cover the costs of the activities for which they have applied from another intermediary, another federal COVID-19 response program or a different source