The Southern and Central Alberta Food Bank Federation

The Foundation's primary activity involves making grants to registered Canadian charities.

Applications are only considered from charities that have adopted the Code of Ethical Fundraising and Financial Accountability designed by Imagine Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy).

We do not normally consider applications from charities that are primarily involved in health, education, recreation, the arts, cultural activities or religious activities. Nor do we accept applications from organizations primarily funded through the tax base, including school boards, universities, health authorities and child-welfare authorities.

Healthy Charities is designed to improve the effectiveness of charities by focusing on their infrastructure, rather than individual projects. This program is available to:

Social-service charities in Alberta and Saskatchewan whose primary focus is working with children and young people to provide them with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to deal with conflict, without resorting to violence.
Charities in Alberta and Saskatchewan whose primary focus is providing early developmental learning and child care services to children 0 to 6 years of age.
Charities anywhere in Canada whose primary focus is serving other charities and who seek to enhance their ability to serve other charities.

Community Economic Development provides funding to charities in Alberta and Saskatchewan to undertake community economic development initiatives that involve and directly support young people.

Restructuring provides assistance to charities to look at new ways of working together. Grants under this program are available to social-service charities in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Research allows for the collection and dissemination of information that will be of practical value for the charitable sector or some significant part of it. These grants are available to social-service charities in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Technology provides support for strategic use of technology by social-service charities in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Training and Bursaries makes available grants to allow social-service charities in Alberta and Saskatchewan to provide professional development to staff and key volunteers.