Funding application: Equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism initiatives

Objectives

We encourage students, staff and faculty to embrace their creativity to promote EDI-R in our Faculty of Health community.  The overarching objectives of this EDI-R Seed Fund program are to, within the Faculty of Health:

1. Create safe, supportive and inclusive spaces and activities,
2. Identify and overcome barriers to equitable participation among students, staff and faculty,
3. Foster learning and unlearning that support EDI-R, and
4. Develop opportunities to support belonging and well-being.

The Advisory Committee aims to support activities with impact across different students, staff, faculty and across a breadth of topics (Disability, LGBTQ+ and Gender Identity, Mental Health, Race).  Please note, any activities involving Indigenous participants must document support from the Office of Indigenous Relations at UWaterloo in the application.

The Advisory Committee will consider activities that involve community building, advocacy, research, education, events (or engagements and experiences) and outreach that benefit a supportive EDI-R culture in Health.

Do you have an idea that could support these objectives?  Be a change-maker and apply!

Awards

Funding will be awarded to successful applicants as low as $350 and up to $5,000. Successful proposals must be executed within 1 year of the notification of success.

Eligibility to apply

All students, staff and faculty in the Faculty of Health are welcome to apply. Applications with multiple applicants are encouraged but not required.

Any individual may apply as the principal applicant on only one proposal in one calendar year. However, an individual may be a team member on more than one proposal.

Evaluation criteria

The Advisory Committee will evaluate and score proposals based on the following criteria:

• Relevance and creativity,
• Collaboration between applicants and community resources,
• Actionability,
• Impact on an EDI-R objective(s) as described above.

Any conflicts of interest of members of the Advisory Committee will be declared and they will be unable to participate in discussion or decisions related to proposals for which they have a conflict of interest.