New process requires organizations to register with Ontario Trillium Foundation before submitting grant applications

New process requires organizations to register with Ontario Trillium Foundation before submitting grant applications

Starting today, nonprofit and charitable organizations can register with the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). Under the new Investment Strategy, this registration is a new mandatory process that organizations must complete before gaining access to grant applications. This new step will ensure that eligibility is confirmed before even applying, saving precious time and resources for the applicants. Here are the application deadlines.
Grow Grants:

• Organization registration deadline: August 12, 2015, 5:00 p.m. EST
• Application deadline: August 26, 2015

Seed and Capital Grants:

• Organization registration deadline: August 19, 2015, 5:00 p.m. EST
• Application deadline: September 2, 2015

Collective Impact Grants: there are no deadlines for submitting applications and they will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
Registering your organization by the above dates will give OTF enough time to process your registration and confirm that you can submit an application. If you do not register before the August dates, OTF cannot guarantee that your registration will be verified in time to provide access to the grant application for the next round of grants.