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.
Interested in applying for the Healthy Choices Fund?
- Applying for the Healthy Choices Fund
- For ideas and information on what others are doing or for support in using the new online form, please email hcif@gov.nt.ca.
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2024-2025 Funding Recipients
|
Organization |
Project |
Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Aklavik Hunters and Trappers | On The Land Language and Culture Program | $32,000.00 |
| Délı̨nę Got'ı̨nę Government | Community Healthy Lifestyle Program | $27,500.00 |
| FOXY | FOXY & SMASH Trauma-Informed Sexual & Mental Health Workshops | $44,550.00 |
| Hamlet of Fort Liard | Lights On Fort Liard | $14,175.00 |
| Hay River Youth Centre | Creating Healthy Horizons Program | $15,000.00 |
| Inuvik Youth Centre Society | Community Health and Nutrition at the Inuvik Youth Centre | $15,000.00 |
| Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation | Elders Cooking Classes | $26,775.00 |
| NWT Recreation and Parks Association | Decreasing Barriers to Active Mobility | $52,861.00 |
| Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre | Northern Health | $10,000.00 |
| Special Olympics NWT | Fitness Testing Extravaganza and other Fitness Program Support | $10,000.00 |
| The Tahiuqtiit Women's Society | Wellness through Culture: Cooking and Sewing Program | $15,989.00 |
| Tłı̨chǫ Friendship Centre | Emerging Youth Engagement for Change | $37,000.00 |
| Tłı̨chǫ Government | Healthy Tłı̨chǫ Futures: A Community-Centric Approach to Wellness | $30,000.00 |
| Town of Hay River | Hay River Healthy Living Initiative | $50,000.00 |
| YWCA | Health Promotion and Harm Reduction in NWT youth | $45,150.00 |
2023-2024 Funding Recipients
|
Organization |
Project |
Funding |
|---|---|---|
|
Community Garden Society of Inuvik |
Greenhouse - Reimagining Green |
$37,500.00 |
| Dehcho First Nations | Journey to Best Health | $51,555.00 |
| Délı̨nę Got'ı̨nę Government | Délı̨nę's Strong Healthy Family Program | $46,800.00 |
| Ecology North | Healthy Living Through Healthy Eating | $52,500.00 |
| Food First Foundation | Teaching Healthy Eating Support for NWT School Cooking Programs | $9,975.00 |
| Foster Family Coalition | Gaining Life Skills Our Way (GLOW) | $74,550.00 |
| Gwichya Gwich’in Band | Community Health Program | $14,700.00 |
| Hamlet of Fort Liard | Fort Liard Fitness Centre | $33,075.00 |
| Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk | Northern Games Youth Gathering | $52,250.00 |
| Hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk | Helping the House of Hope | $45,000.00 |
| Hay River Youth Centre | Finding Our Voice Creative Youth Workshops | $71,137.50 |
| Inuvik Native Band | Drug Diversion and Intervention Support | $37,500.00 |
| Northern Mosaic Network | Wellness Initiative | $20,000.00 |
| NTHSSA | Community Projects | $70,948.00 |
| Qmunity Camp NWT | Qmunity Camp NWT | $20,000.00 |
| Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre | Great North | $73,500.00 |
| Tłı̨chǫ Government | Substance Use Awareness | $75,000.00 |
| Tłı̨chǫ Government | Ancestor's Hat Project | $30,000.00 |
| Tsiigehtchic Charter Community | Tsiigehtchic Teepee Wellness and Community Healing Camp | $47,250.00 |
| Yellowknife Women's Society | Food Growing Project | $56,217.00 |
| YWCA NWT | Northern Youth Leadership Program | $41,000.00 |
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 |