Success By 6® Accessibility Funds

2008 Sunshine Coast Success By 6® Accessibility Funds
Application Guidelines

The following comprises the Application Package (guidelines, criteria, instructions for the 2008 Sunshine Coast Success By 6® Accessibility Funds. Please read carefully.

About Success By 6®

Success By 6® is an early childhood development initiative dedicated to providing all children with a good start in life. It helps to ensure that children ages 0 to 6 develop the emotional, social, cognitive, and physical skills they need as they enter school.

Success By 6® builds and enhances community through engaging citizens in early childhood development, and funding programs that strengthen services for young children and their families. Funded programs include literacy, nutrition, children’s play, parenting and family skills development.

Prevention-focused, research-informed and community-based, Success By 6® envisions a community where all children are valued, respected, nurtured, loved and given the opportunity to develop to their full potential as creative, caring, competent and responsible adults.

About the Sunshine Coast Early Childhood Development Planning Table

The ECDPT is a local group who exists to champion, develop and implement our community’s Early Childhood projects, plans and initiatives.

We’re a group of professionals whose work in some way impacts families with children aged 0-6. Our group includes parents, Sunshine Coast Regional District Parks and Recreation, School District #46, Ministry for Children and Family Development, Vancouver Coastal Health, the Sunshine Coast Credit Union, Child Care administrators, Community School Coordinators, the Sunshine Coast Community Services Society and other ECD professionals.

We meet monthly to forward the goals of the local Strategic Plan for Early Childhood Development. Projects include campaigns and events for families and children, which take place throughout the calendar year.

We serve every community from Langdale to Egmont.

We adhere to the objectives outlined in the 2007 ECD Strategic Plan:

1. Creating welcoming communities that support healthy and active living for children & families.

2. Enhancing and developing spaces, places, and services for children & families.

3. Improving accessibility and affordability for children & families.

About the Success By 6® Accessibility Funds

Eligibility Requirements

The applying project will:

• increase the participation of isolated children and families in existing family resource Programs.
• provide new programs that better meet the needs of children living with risk conditions.
• increase accessibility (e.g. extended program hours, weekend services, etc.)
• break down barriers to participation (e.g. transportation, etc)
• have not-for-profit intentions

The Sunshine Coast Early Childhood Development Planning Table is the collaborative partnership behind this funding process, and the accessibility objectives derive directly from our ECD Strategic Plan.
Click here for the complete 2007 ECD Strategic Plan: sc-ecd-strategy-2007

Application Requirements

Applications to the fund will comprise an Application Form, a cover letter and relevant supporting documentation.

Awards

The number of applications selected for awards and the amounts of those awards will vary depending on the amount of funds available, on community priorities, project deliverables and quality of application.

Past recipients have included postpartum support programs, perinatal support and outreach, weekend parent-tot drop-in, dad’s drop-in, early years literacy program and more.

Successful applicants will be notified by letter by mid-May.

Funding decisions are final.

Screening Committee

The ECD Planning Table will oversee the financial management of the Success By 6® Fund. The ECD Planning Table will meet annually to review Success By 6® Fund financial statements and the application, eligibility, requirements and screening/selection criteria and processes. The facilitation of the process will be managed by the ECD Community Facilitator, Sarah Pond.

The Screening Committee has a total budget of $50,000 and may fund a finite number of projects within that budget.

The Success By 6® Application Screening Committee will be members of the Sunshine Coast ECD Planning Table. This Committee will oversee the application review and award process.

A list of applicants with name and working relationship will be provided to Screening Committee members prior to review of applications to establish potential conflict of interest issues. Any Screening Committee member who works/volunteers for an applicant will be expected to excuse him or herself from consideration of that application. Personal knowledge of an applicant is not sufficient to warrant their exclusion from review and/or discussion of that application.

Selection Criteria

The Screening Committee will first determine that each application is complete and complies with eligibility requirements.

Grants will be based on community priorities/need, project goals and relevance to the ECD Strategic Plan.

Demand for funding is high. Meeting the eligibility criteria does not guarantee a funding award.

Please read the following criteria carefully. Proposals for Success By 6® funds should clearly articulate project outcomes and benefits for the communities, specifically how the project will:

• Demonstrate a network with relevant community partners
• Contribute long-term solutions to issues
• Foster the development of skills and capacity
• Demonstrate the ability to make effective and accountable use of the funds
• Have performance measures that focus on outcomes
• Support/enhance the ECD Strategic Plan objectives

The fund is not for:

• private business seeking operational funds
• individuals who wish to form a new group
• projects that do not directly benefit the local early childhood community

Miscellaneous

Applications must be submitted by 4pm on April 25, 2008.

Plans that pass initial eligibility criteria will be assessed by the Screening Committee.

Successful applicants will later be required to make available such information as may be required for monitoring of progress.

Instructions:

Submit your completed application by email to ecd@dccnet.com or deliver hard copy to Sunshine Coast Community Services Society, 5630 Inlet Ave, Box 1069 Sechelt, BC, V0N 3A0. Applications must be submitted by 4pm on April 25, 2008. Applications to the fund will comprise:

• completed short form: Click here for 2008 Application Form: application-form-2008final
• cover letter
• relevant supporting documentation.

For more information:

Sarah Pond
ECD Community Facilitator
ecd@dccnet.com
604 740-7884
www.ecdcoast.wordpress.com