This opportunity is open to qualified community-based senior-serving (CBSS) organizations, Family and Community Support Services offices, and municipalities with the capacity to introduce new or expand on the delivery of innovative assisted transportation services for older adults and persons with mobility issues living in rural Alberta. Non-profit organizations without charity status are eligible to apply. There will be additional process documents required for those without qualified donee/charitable status.

Project implementation for Phase 2 projects will begin August 1, 2024, and end March 31, 2026.

Applicants can apply for funding of transportation activities with a budget maximum of $175,000 inclusive of direct and administrative costs.

In addition to providing transportation services, organizations will be expected to:

• Participate in a Community of Practice convened by Healthy Aging Alberta.
• Work with Healthy Aging Alberta and its selected evaluation partner to develop a common measurement framework and collect results indicators.
• This project will be informed by the Healthy Aging Framework.

The program selection process will take place in two parts:

1. An open call for high-level Expression of Interests (EOIs) from which potential funding recipients will be shortlisted based on the identified criteria.
2. Shortlisted organizations will be invited to submit comprehensive funding applications including detailed program design, collaboration partners, evaluation approach, and project budget.

The application review process will be led by HAA staff and informed by community experts who have experience evaluating proposals within the funding opportunity objectives.

To avoid any possible conflicts of interest, members of the Community Leadership Council for Healthy Aging Alberta (HAA) will not be involved in any part of the EOI or application review process. In addition, Regional Community Developers will not be involved in scoring EOI’s or applications from their respective regions.

Following the selection of the shortlisted organizations from EOI submissions, Regional Community Developers with HAA will reach out to all organizations to provide support working through the application process.

Please join us for an online Q&A session regarding the process on Thursday, January 18 from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST. To confirm your attendance, please register HERE.

Following the Q&A session, for additional questions or clarification, please email funding@healthyagingalberta.ca.

Allied Partners: Other sectors and systems partners such as government, health, justice, and business.

Collaborative: Intentional partnerships working together towards a common agenda. For the purpose of this EOI, at minimum collaboratives should be engaged in working together to achieve a common purpose or outcome while sharing certain resources, building each other’s capacity and reporting on common outcomes.

Community-Based Senior Serving (CBSS) organizations: Non-profit or public organizations that provide non-medical home and community supports to seniors. For profit businesses are not included in the scope of this funding.

Low Income: $31,080 or less per year as an individual or $50,720 for a couple This comes from the Alberta Seniors Benefit income levels. The Alberta Seniors Benefit is a program that supports low income older adults to assist with living expenses and home supports. Healthy Aging Alberta refers to the LIM-AT (low-income measure after tax) from Statistics Canada when looking at low income census data for communities.

Non-profit organization: A non-profit organization is an association, club, or society that is operated exclusively for social welfare, civic improvement, pleasure, recreation, or any other purpose except profit. It is not a charity. No part of the organization’s income can be payable to or available for the personal benefit of any proprietor, member, or shareholder, unless the recipient is a club, society, or association whose primary purpose and function is to promote amateur athletics in Canada.

Non-transit transportation: Transportation in rural and remote areas that is not identified as public transit by the municipality.

Partnership: An ongoing intentional relationship, where trust is a foundational principle, and the risks and rewards are shared.

Qualified Donee: A qualified donee is an organization that can issue official donation receipts for gifts it receives from individuals and corporations. It can also receive gifts from registered charities.

Remote community: greater than 200 kilometres from a Metro or Urban centre.

Rural community: communities up to 200 kilometres from a Metro or Urban centre.

Subsidy: The amount that your program would cover for older adults who are not able to afford the full advertised cost (fare) of your transportation program. Subsidy does not refer to the operational cost of running a transportation program versus the cost that is charged to individuals accessing the program (the fare). Subsidy refers to the amount that your program would provide to support accessibility to low income older adults.
For example: The one way cost of a transportation program is $10, the subsidized cost for low income older adults is $5.