{"id":43612,"date":"2025-02-20T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fgmtl.org\/?p=43612"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:23:46","slug":"call-for-proposals-indigenous-initiatives-support-fund-and-indigenous-advisory-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fgmtl.org\/copieprod\/en\/news\/call-for-proposals-indigenous-initiatives-support-fund-and-indigenous-advisory-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for proposals: Indigenous Initiatives Support Fund and Indigenous advisory body"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for proposals: Consulting services for scaling the Indigenous Initiatives Support Fund and creation of the Indigenous advisory body at the Foundation of Greater Montr\u00e9al<\/h4>\n
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About the Foundation of Greater Montr\u00e9al<\/em><\/h5>\n

The Foundation of Greater Montreal is a community foundation that serves the territory we now know as Greater Montreal (82 municipalities including the cities of Montreal, Laval, Longueuil, and the Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka communities of Kahnaw\u00e0:ke and Kanehsat\u00e0:ke). FGM has a solid experience in creating and operating pooled philanthropic funds and distinguishes itself by its approach to community partnerships based on the principles of trust-based philanthropy and participatory grantmaking. Its priority giving areas, according to its <\/span>2022-2026 Strategic Plan<\/span><\/a> are social equity, diversity and inclusion, ecological transition, education, health and culture. For the past several years, FGM has been developing a distinct and sustained <\/span>Reconciliation Strategy<\/span><\/a> through granting and building reciprocal relationships with the First Nations and Inuit communities and organizations across Greater Montreal.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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About the Indigenous Initiatives Support Fund<\/em><\/h5>\n

The Indigenous Initiatives Support Fund<\/a> was created in 2021 as a part of the Foundation\u2019s overall move towards justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. Between 2021 and 2024, the Fund distributed an annual amount of $100,000 to Indigenous-led organizations in Greater Montreal. Grants reaching a maximum of $20,000 per year are offered to organizations on a non-competitive basis. The Foundation does not require a formal proposal, nor impose mandatory reporting on the grantees. However, it puts an emphasis on the relationship building and maintains connections with the grantees through meetings, events participation, collaborations, etc. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides this reserved grant envelope, the Foundation\u2019s Strategic Granting Framework<\/a> sets a target minimum of 50% of its own grants going to six historically marginalized populations, including Black, Indigenous,\u00a0 and People of Colour (BIPOC), 2SLGBTQ+, women and girls and people living with disabilities or who are neurodivergent. Thus, Indigenous-led organizations and initiatives are generally given priority in the selection process for the FGM Collective Fund for Climate and Ecological Transition<\/a>, the Collective Fund for Social Equity<\/a>, the Women Impact Montreal<\/a> Collective Fund, as well as the federal granting programs occasionally administered by FGM.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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FGM’s vision and objectives in terms of Indigenous and reconciliation-focused granting<\/h5>\n

In the past four years, the Indigenous Initiatives Support Fund has allowed FGM to build relationships of trust in many First Nations and Inuit communities of Greater Montreal and support a great diversity of causes and organizations, including the early-stage Indigenous-led initiatives.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the spring 2024, FGM started consultations concerning the perspectives of <\/span>scaling the Indigenous Initiatives Support Fund in terms of outreach, financial capacity and number of grantees, while preserving and deepening trust-based and relationship-centered approaches<\/span><\/b> that have been the hallmarks of the Fund since its inception.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Guided by the advice of our partners and the leadership of the Indigenous members of our board, the Foundation has chosen to pursue the path of a long-term sustainable growth of its Indigenous and reconciliation-focused granting portfolio by putting in place the following strategies:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n