Grant Application Guidelines

Grant Application Guidelines

The Loewen Foundation is a not-for-profit philanthropic organization founded in 1973 by the late C.P. Loewen and his wife Annie to fund charitable causes. It is governed by a Board of Directors that sets policy and is responsible for the final decisions on grants.

Mission Statement

Grounded in faith, we will nurture the strength and vibrancy of people, communities and the earth within which we live.

Vision Statement

Through focused and effective strategies and leveraged partnerships we will use our wealth, knowledge, and passion to be a model for successful philanthropy.

Areas of Interest

  1. Education: To create and enhance the opportunity for accessible, quality education.
  2. Tolerance and respect: To promote harmonious diversity by fostering respectful exchange and relationship-building across cultures and faiths, and creating opportunities for divergent groups to learn about and understand each other.
  3. Faith: To support exemplary efforts of faith-based organizations to put “faith in action” in ways that positively impact the security and opportunity of individuals and communities.
  4. Environment: To support the efforts of an engaged citizenry to create accountable and responsive institutions, sound public policies, appropriate models of development that protect the diversity and integrity of selected ecosystems in Canada, and to provide education that will result in behavior beneficial to the environment.
  5. Poverty Alleviation: To address the root causes of poverty by supporting projects that remove barriers to economic mobility or that seek to transform the social and family patterns that perpetuate poverty.

Policies

  • Grants are made to charitable organizations. These will normally be organizations that have a charitable tax number.
  • No grants are made to individuals.
  • Grants will normally not provide more than 25% of the project costs. Other funding partners are encouraged.

Grant Application Procedures

The Loewen Foundation does not have a formal application form but will receive proposals in a concise letter form including any appropriate supporting materials. The following information should be included:

  • Name of organization
  • Name of contact
  • Contact coordinates: Tel., Fax, e-mail address, mailing address
  • A brief description of your organization. This will include the mission or purpose of the organization.
  • A list of the organization’s Board members.
  • Relevant information about the capability of the leadership to implement the proposed project or program.
  • The purpose of the project or program funding being requested.
  • Short and long term outcomes expected and plans for assessing achievements.
  • The amount of funding requested.
  • The total funding required to operate the project or program.

Your letter will be reviewed within three weeks of receiving it to determine if it fits within the areas of interest identified by the Foundation. You may be contacted by the Foundation’s Executive Director with requests for more information, a meeting, or a site visit. The Board of Directors of the Loewen Foundation meets annually in November to make decisions on all of the requests received during the year. Applicants can expect a final decision within two weeks of the November Board meeting.

Please send all proposals to:
The Loewen Family Foundation
Box 330
Steinbach MB  R5G 1M3
Attention:  Executive Director
office@loewenfoundation.com