The Home Program
The Home Program
The Home Program provides funding to non-profit organizations to deliver projects that increase housing stability and successful tenancies for affordable housing residents or people in housing need.
2024 Funding allocations
Applications for The Home Program grants have been evaluated and grant recipients have been determined. Below are the grant recipients for 2024.
The next round of funding applications is expected to be in Q1 of 2025. Information will be provided here when it is available. Other funding and grant opportunities are available.
Contact
If you have questions about the Home Program please contact the Home Program Administrator.
View 2024 funding allocations
| Organization | Project name and description | Approved funding |
|---|---|---|
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Progressive Action Towards Housing and Work Integrated Skill Enhancement (PATHWISE): Addresses a pressing need for maintenance and repair services within housing facilities while supporting individuals facing barriers to employment. |
$25,000 | |
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An Indigenous Worldview: Supporting and Sustaining Affordable Housing Through an Indigenous Lens: Integrates Indigenous led counselling and healing circles, to provide culturally relevant support and address systemic issues in accessing housing. |
$199,417 | |
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Coordinated Entry Program – Circle Keeper: Focuses on fostering housing stability and successful tenancies among urban Indigenous Calgarians seeking supportive housing at the SORCe. |
$105,856 | |
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Practical Life Skills Support Program: Supports young mothers transitioning from homelessness by delivering home maintenance training to enhance their success in long-term stable housing, where families can thrive. |
$25,000 | |
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Indigenous Housing Development Strategy: Conducting research and engaging in community consultations to develop recommendations for an Indigenous-based housing service delivery model to support housing acquisition and provision in Calgary. |
$25,000 | |
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Financial Empowerment at Home: Provides financial coaching and support services to Calgarians in housing need in collaboration with Unison at Kerby Centre, Centre for Newcomers, Carya, and Rise Calgary across 7 locations in Calgary. |
$189,226 | |
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Siksika Off-Reserve Affordable Housing Project Limited (SORAH) |
Basic Home Maintenance Training: Delivers home maintenance training to off-reserve members living in affordable housing in Calgary. This project also aims to create a pathway for members to explore career opportunities in the skilled trades. |
$20,000 |
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SHARP Indigenous Cultural & Social Inclusion Project (SICSP): Delivers Indigenous healing, ceremonial, and community events to Indigenous Calgarians in housing need to foster community integration and promote housing stability. |
$65,400 | |
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Increasing Affordable Housing Tenancy for Youth: Addresses the complex challenges experienced by homeless youth in Calgary through strengthening staff capacity, delivering skill building/tenancy workshops, and resident engagement activities to build resiliency and sustain housing stability. |
$184,914 | |
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Bridging Cultures to Youth Housing Stability: Delivers accessible and culturally safe support for young people within the continuum of housing instability at the Inglewood Opportunity Hub (IOH). |
$183,737 |
About the Home Program
The Home Program provides funding to non-profit organizations to deliver projects that increase housing stability and successful tenancies for affordable housing residents or people in housing need. Our priority areas are:
- Education and skill building - Increase knowledge and skills to successfully maintain and remain in a home.
- Financial empowerment - Strengthen financial inclusion, knowledge, behaviours and opportunities.
- Community inclusion and integration - Increase participation, engagement and involvement with the local community, services and supports.
- Initiatives that address housing instability for Indigenous people, Black and racialized people, and equity-deserving populations.
- Initiatives that seek to understand the root causes of housing instability, or that seek to change systems, policies, and other legislation to support housing stability for Indigenous people at the systems level (i.e., research projects, educational opportunities).
There are three types of Home Program grants. These grants are for non-profit organizations that serve affordable housing residents or Calgarians in housing need, including housing providers and other service organizations. Download the Home Program grant guidelines here.
Community Grant – grants for new projects up to $25,000. These are grants for projects that stimulate innovative, lasting, positive changes that will increase housing stability and successful tenancies.
Partnership Initiative Grant - grants from $25,001 - $200,000 for new projects. These larger grants aim to leverage collaboration and partnership to reduce barriers to non-market housing.
Sustainability Initiative Grant – grants for projects that have received a Home Program grant in a past year and require more support for projects that have the potential to be scaled-up, replicated, or achieve sustainability without any grant in the future. Past projects funded through a Community or Partnership Initiative grant are eligible. There is an option to choose this Grant on both the Community Grant and the Partnership Initiative application forms.