Healthy Choices Fund
The Healthy Choices Fund helps eligible organizations and community governments maximize the impact of health promotion and prevention activities that support Northwest Territories communities and their residents in making positive lifestyle choices.
The Healthy Choices Fund is intended to:
- Increase education and awareness around healthy choices.
- Focus on children, youth and seniors.
- Encourage community participation, promote partnerships.
- Enable residents to participate in healthy choices through the community environment and available resources.
Funding: $10,000 minimum to $75,000 maximum per year is available.
New opportunities for 2022-23 have been added to the Healthy Choices Fund:
Application Deadline:
The Healthy Choices Fund is now closed. New funding will be available for applications in early 2023 for 2023-2024 projects.
Interested in applying for the Healthy Choices Fund?
- Applying for the Healthy Choices Fund
- For ideas and information on what others are doing, please email hcif@gov.nt.ca.
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2022-2023 Funding Recipients
|
Organization |
Project |
Funding |
|---|---|---|
|
Children First Society |
Children First Outreach Program |
$16,646 |
|
Deline Gotine Government |
Summer Camp |
$30,000 |
|
Ecology North |
Healthy Living through Healthy Eating |
$47,250 |
|
Food First Foundation |
Nurturing Healthy Eaters |
$10,500 |
|
Fort Good Hope RRC |
Traditional Foods |
$20,000 |
|
Foster Family Foundation |
GLOW Tutoring Support Services |
$36,750 |
|
Gwichʼin Tribal Council |
Women’s Wellness Camp |
$43,050 |
|
Hamlet of Tulita |
Toddler Time |
$14,175 |
|
Hay River Committee for People with Disabilities |
Working Towards Wellness |
$43,050 |
|
Hay River HSSA |
Outdoor Gathering for Seniors |
$40,000 |
|
Hay River Library Committee |
Healthy Choice Program |
$10,000 |
|
Hay River Seniors’ Society |
Socializing Healthy Seniors |
$18,542 |
|
Home Base/Side Door Ministries |
Cultural Health Support |
$42,000 |
|
Ingamo Hall Friendship Centre |
Elders Healthy Living Activities |
$55,194 |
|
Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation |
Healthy Choices in the Community |
$69,353 |
|
Nahanni Butte Dene Band |
Improving Living Standards |
$10,000 |
|
NWT Amateur Wrestling |
Community Support |
$14,050 |
|
NWT Literacy Council |
Growing Children’s Home Library |
$26,226 |
|
NWT Seniors’ Society |
Senior Friendly Computer Course for Older Adults in the NWT |
$42,735 |
|
Tłı̨chǫ Government |
Tłı̨chǫ Youth Mentoring Program |
$45,000 |
|
Yellowknives Dene First Nation |
Paddle Camp |
$24,885 |
|
Yellowknives Dene First Nation |
Aging Gracefully |
$50,000 |
2021-2022 Funding Recipients
|
Organization |
Project |
Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Acho Dene Koe First Nation | Let's Talk: Investing in My Family. A Community Development Project | $42,000 |
| Deline Got'ine Government | How to Take Care of Ourselves | $19,950 |
| Inuvik Youth Centre | Aariga! IYC Nutrition Club | $15,000 |
| NWT Recreation and Parks Association | Movement, Exercise and Culture: Supporting Culturally Relevant Ways of Moving | $50,000 |
| Gwich'in Tribal Council | Jig at Home, Fiddle at Home: Revitalizing Traditional Métis Fiddling and Dance for Gwich'in Youth. | $75,000 |
| K'asho Got'ine Housing Society |
Learning and Eating Together |
$75,000 (Multi Year Funding for 3 years): $25,000 for 2019-2020 FY $25,000 for 2020-2021 FY $25,000 for 2021 – 2022 FY |
| Makeway Charitable Society | Youth Group Activities for the Beaufort Delta Region | $25,000 |
| Sambaa K'e First Nation | Elders Council | $30,975 |
| Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre | Elders on the Move | $50,000 |
| Teetl'it Gwich'in Band Council | Dinji Zhuh Men's Initiative | $40,000 |
| Tuktoyaktuk Community Corporation – Jason Jacobson Youth Center | Jason Jacobson Youth Center Cooking Program |
$21,000(Multi Year Funding for 2 years) $15,750 for 2020-2021FY $5,250 for 2021-2022FY |
| Yellowknives Dene First Nation | Learning Skills and Sharing Knowledge of Traditional Health Economies | $21,800 |
2020-2021 Funding Recipients
|
Organization |
Funding |
|---|---|
|
Aurora College |
$75,000.00 ( Multi-year Funding for 3 years-2018-2021 $25,000.00 per year from 2018 - 2021) |
|
Children First Society |
$40,000.00 |
|
Gwich’in Tribal Council |
$75,000.00 |
| Ka’sho Got’ine Housing Society |
$75,000 (Multi Year Funding for 3 years – 2019 - 2023) $25,000.00 for 2019-2020 FY $25,000.00 for 2020-2021 FY $25,000.00 for 2021 – 2022 FY |
| NWT Literacy Council | $25,000.00 |
| Food Rescue Yellowknife | $23,750.00 |
| Hay River Library Committee | $10,000.00 |
| Jason Jacobson Youth Centre | $20,000.00 |
| Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre | $33,000.00 |
| The Tree of Peace Friendship Centre | $62,500.00 |
| YWCA NWT | $60,750.00 |
2019-2020 Funding Recipients
|
Organization |
Project |
Funding |
|---|---|---|
|
Aurora College |
Healthy Campuses Build Student Success |
$75,000.00 ( Multi-year Funding for 3 years-2018-2021 $25,000.00 per year from 2018 - 2021) |
|
Children First Society |
Reaching Out – Young Children and their Families |
$25,624.00 |
|
Deline Got’ine Government |
Edenats’edi: Reconnecting with Ourselves by the Sahuot’ine Nats’eju Initiative | $75,000.00 |
| Foster Family Coalition of the NWT |
Camp Connections Programming |
$10,000.00 |
|
Inuvik Native Band |
Youth Governance Enhancement |
$30,000.00 |
| Inuvik Youth Centre | IYC Nutrition Club | $15,855.00 |
| Ka’sho Got’ine Housing Society | Learning and Eating Together |
$75,000 (Multi Year Funding for 3 years – 2019 - 2023) $25,000.00 for 2019-2020 FY $25,000.00 for 2020-2021 FY $25,000.00 for 2021 – 2022 FY |
|
Liidlii Kue First Nation |
Elders Community Kitchen | $31,374.00 |
| Northern Farm Training Institute |
From the Land Food Program |
$19,950.00 |
| NWT Literacy Council |
Community Connections Health And Wellness for Newcomers |
$28,145.00 |
| Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority (Stanton Territorial Hospital) |
T.A.S.T.E – Time Honored Action For Sustaining Traditional Eating |
$136,027.50 Multi-Year funding for 2 years $74,052.00 for 2019 - 2020 FY $ 61,976.25 for 2020 - 2021 FY |
| Tides Canada Initiatives Society | Land to Life-Northern Youth Wellness Initiative |
$40,000.00 |
2018-2019 Funding Recipients
|
Organization |
Project |
Funding |
|---|---|---|
|
Aurora College |
Healthy Campuses Build Student Success |
$75,000.00 (Multi-year at $25,000.00 per year from 2018 – 2021) |
|
Children First Society |
Reaching Out – Young Children and their Families |
$24,935.86 |
|
Ecology North |
#loveNWTwater for Healthy Communities |
$23,625.00 |
|
FOXY |
FOXY Sexual Health Workshop |
$60,000.00 |
|
Gwich’in Tribal Council |
Community Prevention, Prevention & Awareness Program |
$74,970.00 |
|
Inuvik Native Band |
Emergency Warming Shelter Assistant |
$50,400.00 |
|
Liidlii Kue First Nation |
Lights on Cooking Classes |
$19,293.75 |
|
Moms, Boobs & Babies |
Breastfeeding and Parent Support & Normalization Campaign |
$20,000.00 |
|
NTHSSA-Sahtu |
Parenting in the Sahtu – TRIPLE P PARENTING PROGRAM |
$30,996.74 |
|
Tetlit Gwich’in Council |
Tetlit Gwichin Men’s Initiative Project |
$ 30,778.65 |
|
Tides Canada Intiatives |
North Youth Leadership on the Land Programs |
$40,000.00 |