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Upcoming Grant Opportunities with Kindred Foundation
Palliative and End-of-Life Care | Kindred Cares Grant 2024
In 2021, Kindred Foundation established the Kindred Cares Grant to help fund programs, projects and research in the area of hospice, palliative, and end-of-life care, for both adults and children with life-limiting conditions. The Kindred Cares Grant was created to:
Support community-based hospice/palliative care.
Address important research questions relating to the clinical care and preferences of adults and children with palliative needs, and their families.
Assist with projects and programs related to palliative care for children with life-limiting conditions.
The Kindred Cares Grant is administered and managed by Kindred Foundation.
The Kindred Cares Grant is now CLOSED for 2023. Please see more information on the Kindred Cares page.
Kindred Foundation Youth Mental Health Grant
The Kindred Foundation Youth Mental Health Grant is focused on providing financial support to Canadian organizations providing mental health services to Black and/or 2SLGBTQ+ youth across the country. The goal of the Youth Mental Health Grant is to ensure that organizations directly assisting Black and/or 2SLGBTQ+ youth communities with mental health challenges and illness have the funds they need to carry out their mission.
Kindred Foundation is honoured to be guided by two organizations who are experts and decision makers in this funding initiative. The Black Health Alliance is a community-led registered charity working to improve the health and well-being of Black Communities in Canada. It Gets Better Canada envisions a day when no young person in Canada feels marginalized, isolated, excluded, or rejected because of their sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.
A maximum of $30,000 per grant will be awarded, with approximately 5 grants provided in total. The grant duration is for one year. For awarded grants, if all funds cannot be used in one year, there is the possibility of a 6- or 12-month extension on the gift agreement.
For more information, please see: Kindred Foundation Youth Mental Health Grant.
Past Grant Opportunities from Kindred Foundation
Defeating Embryonal Cancer in Young People Together (DECRYPT)
The Defeating Embryonal Cancer in Young People Together (DECRYPT) Research Grant is intended to challenge the current childhood embryonal cancer landscape by providing funding for a research project that will address an unmet need for these pediatric brain cancers. The DECRYPT grant is designed to fund research that will ideally lead to a significant change in the understanding, diagnosis, and/or treatment of childhood embryonal brain tumours.
The DECRYPT Research Grant is funded by Kindred Foundation, Cancer Research Society (CRS), Phoebe Rose Rocks Foundation, Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada, The Miracle Marnie Foundation, Childhood Cancer Canada, and Tali’s Fund. This collaboration is built on the shared goal to make significant change for children with embryonal brain tumours by investing in clinical research. Please see the official press release (PDF).
Childhood Cancer Research | The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada's Pediatric Blood Cancer Research Innovation Grant Competition
Late 2021, Canadian researchers submitted proposals to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada’s Pediatric Blood Cancer Research Innovation Grant Competition. This grant is designed to challenge the current pediatric blood cancer landscape by providing funding for projects that will address unmet needs for pediatric blood cancers.
The LLSC is providing funding for up to 5 grants up to a maximum of $100,000 per year for two years (up to a maximum total of $200,000 for the two years). Kindred Foundation has committed to co-fund two (2) grants within the competition.
In the current era of targeted and immuno-oncology drugs being developed in adults, very few successful examples have been translated to childhood blood cancer treatment. Clear advances have occurred, but cure rates remain low for certain blood cancer types, along with considerable long-term effects from traditional therapies. For the benefit of children, a better understanding of tumor biology and further progress in drug development and treatment are needed.
The LLSC Pediatric Blood Cancer Research Innovation Grant is a two-year grant designed to provide funding to research that will lead to a significant change in the understanding, diagnosis, or treatment of pediatric blood cancers.
Kindred Foundation is proud to support research being done at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and BC Cancer.
