Eligible Expenses
Eligible expenses must contribute to the establishment of new collaborative efforts or enhance existing collaborative work. Examples of eligible expenses may include, but are not limited to:
- Staffing costs (such as Collaborative/Partnership coordinator or manager)
- Facilitation costs
- to support the establishment of common values/principles/philosophies
- to develop a Partnership Agreement or Memorandum of Understanding
- to support relationship building between collaborators/partners
- Training expenses across collaborative/partnership
- Planning, research, and evaluation expenses specific to the development and/or enhancement of the collaboration or partnership
- Cost of space for co-location/meetings
- Printing and communications specific to the collaboration/partnership
- Travel expenses within Edmonton
- Other administrative costs associated with the collaborative/partnership
Ineligible Expenses
Program funding cannot be used for expenses related to:
- Time and labour provided towards preparation of funding applications, fundraising including costs for fundraising campaigns and websites for fundraising purposes
- Endowments, charitable donations, bursaries, developing business cases or proposals for funding, donor recognition, gifts (with the exception of gifts for Indigenous protocols)
- Project expenses that are incurred before the application has been received
- Capital and facility upgrades, renovations and construction
- Debt reduction, financing charges and/or interest payments on loans