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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:

 

 

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

100% Fund

100% Fund: Funding Osteosarcoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma and Infant Leukemia Research


Nearly one in five children diagnosed with cancer will not survive. For children with rare and hard-to-cure cancers, the odds can be far worse. The 100% Fund was created to challenge these odds. Phoebe Rose Rocks Foundation, Fight Like Mason Foundation, AnnFrances Tropea Foundation, Mélia’s Memory, Team Finn, Eli’s Childhood Cancer Foundation, Kindred Foundation and Childhood Cancer Canada have partnered to fund research for children and teens who do not, yet, have their cure.  The 100% Fund targets pediatric and adolescent cancers that are hard-to-cure and have not responded to available therapies. The goal is to fund research with the potential to deliver improved treatment and increased survival rates.  The C17 Research Network administers these grants. 

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

In 2021, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada (LLSC) launched their 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.

In 2021, Kindred Foundation co-funded 2 research grants with LLSC.

In 2024, Kindred Foundation co-funded another LLSC Pediatric Blood Cancer Research Innovation Grant.  Kindred Foundation's contribution to this grant is beyond special.  Some of the funds were raised by Kat Ast and Jeff Kindree in memory of their son Bo who died from AML just days after his third birthday in 2019.  Bo was diagnosed with pAML at 11 months old and was treated at BC Children's Hospital. 

 

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.

 

See more on the funded grants with LLSC through the Pediatric Blood Cancer Research Innovation Grant.