Community HAte-crimes Response Grants Program

The Ontario government has created the Community HAte-crime Response Grants Program (CHARG), investing approximately $1.35 million in grants to community organizations for projects to address hate crimes.

Applications will be accepted until August 24, 2007

The government will fund four kinds of community-based initiatives to address hate crimes:

• Projects to enhance community resources and/or address gaps in services to victims of hate crimes
• A hate crime forum to strengthen networks and share information among victims’ groups, educators and members of the criminal justice system
• A website for victims containing provincewide information about hate crimes and victim services
• Templates for community-based victim impact statements, for use in court.

This package contains:

• Appendix A – Fact Sheet on Grants
• Appendix B – Project Application Outline Template
• Appendix C – Work Plan Template
• Appendix D – Budget Template
• Appendix E – OVSS Regional Offices
• Appendix F – Application Submission Checklist
• Appendix G – Terms And Conditions

Forms

The required forms contained in the guidelines are available in a format that can be filled out online and printed for submission.

This package contains:

• Appendix B - Project Application Outline Template
• Appendix C - Work Plan Template
• Appendix D - Budget Template

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