SMALL PROJECTS ENABLING ACCESSIBILITY COMPONENT NOW OPEN

(Swift Current, SK) The Government of Canada supports people with disabilities and their families. Through the Enabling Accessibility Fund, or EAF, our government is helping people with disabilities by improving their access to facilities, activities and services.

In the second year of Canada’s Economic Action Plan, our government is investing $45 million over the next three years to remove barriers for Canadians with disabilities.

The EAF supports based projects across Canada that improve accessibility and enable Canadians regardless of physical ability, to participate in and contribute to their communities and the economy.

Under this program, organizations can receive a grant of up to $75,000 for projects such as; renovation, construction and retrofitting of buildings to improve physical accessibility, modification of vehicles for community use that improves physical accessibility, and enhancements to make information and communication technologies more accessible. All projects must be accessible to the public.  

Eligible organizations include not-for-profit organizations, small municipalities, with a population fewer than 250,000 as per census data, small private-sector organizations, which has fewer than 50 employees and under $5 million in gross revenue per year, colleges and universities, territorial governments and Aboriginal governments.

The call for proposals under EAF’s Small Projects Enabling Accessibility component closes on September 10, 2010. For more information please log on to; www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/disability_issues/eaf/cfp/small_projects/index.shtml, or call
1-800-O-Canada.