Your organization must be 1 of the following:
- Not-for-profit organization
- For-profit organization with a maximum of 99 full-time equivalent employees
- Municipalities
- Indigenous ELCCs, including band councils, tribal councils and self-government entities
- Registered and/or licensed Early Learning and Child Care centers. ELCC centers situated in or on public school property will be required to demonstrate that the proposed project activity is exclusively for the use of the child care center/program
- Indigenous ELCCs, ESDC recognizes that not all Indigenous ELCC centres (including those on reserves, operating in Inuit communities, or operated by Self-Governing First Nations or Modern Treaty Holders) are issued a registration or licensing number. These organizations are still eligible to apply under this call. In question 34 of the application for funding form, please include a statement if this is the case
- Territorial government
Your organization cannot be 1 of the following:
- Federal or provincial government
- Public school (primary and secondary), including an organization submitting proposals for projects that would take place on publicly funded school property. Exception applies to registered and/or licensed ELCC centres where the proposed project activity is exclusively for the use of the child care centre/program
- Public health care facilities or public hospitals (health care is an area of provincial or territorial jurisdiction, accordingly public health care facilities and hospitals have access to funding to support accessibility), including projects that take place on public health care and public hospital property
- Home-based child care centres
- Crown corporation and entities that are controlled by a federal, provincial or territorial government
- Organizations who have received funding through the 2021 EAF Mid-size projects funding process
Your project cannot be one of the following:
- Retrofit of motor vehicles (for example, cars, vans, buses) for community or individual use
- Construction, renovation or retrofit activities that aim to decorate or improve esthetics of a building or its surroundings
- Construction, renovation, retrofit or any activities for personal use
- Project activities in a private home or dwelling
- Contingency costs
- Routine repairs and maintenance costs, or general costs (overhead, administrative, operating costs and amenities, and etc.) - Employee salaries and benefits
Examples of ineligible costs (not limited to):
- Costs incurred before the signing of the agreement
- Costs for the purchase of furniture or equipment that does not include features to increase accessibility for persons with disabilities. For example: lockers, refrigerators, Interac terminals, defibrillators
- Costs linked to constructing, renovating, or retrofitting: Government of Canada properties, publicly funded hospitals, publicly funded schools, private homes or dwellings
- Costs linked to purchasing, retrofitting and modifying motor vehicles (for example cars, vans, buses)
- Training costs associated with the project
- Routine repairs and maintenance costs, or general costs (overhead, administrative and operating costs, etc.)
- Costs related with the research and the development of a technology
- Costs related with the commercialization, the marketing and the promotion of a product or a service
- Employee salaries and benefits
- Landscaping for esthetic purposes
