Up-Front Multi-Year Funding
- Trans Canada Trail / Sentier transcanadien
- Michaëlle Jean Foundation
- National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
- Endowment Fund-Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities
- Grant to the 2010 Games Operating Trust
Name of Recipient: Trans Canada Trail / Sentier transcanadien
Start Date: December 2003
End Date: March 2011*
*The agreement with Canadian Heritage terminated March 31, 2011. Agreement closing procedures will take place in 2011-12, including an update of the 2010 evaluation of the fund's performance. Should a portion of the fund remain unexpended on March 31, 2011, it will be returned to the Consolidated Revenue Fund.Total Funding: $15M, entirely paid in 2003-04
Description: The Trans Canada Trail - Sentier transcanadien leads an initiative, based on widespread voluntary support, to establish a national recreational trail that runs through every Canadian province and territory, linking hundreds of communities. The federal grant for this project was used solely to establish a fund to achieve the following objectives: to administer a program of grants to community-based groups in support of trail-building capital projects (thereby leveraging additional support from other sources); to provide planning for and coordinate development of the Trail; and to establish Trail Pavilions and signage along the route.
The Trail will connect Canadians from all regions of the country with each other, their environment, and Canada's cultural and natural diversity.Strategic Outcome(s): Canadian artistic expressions and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.
Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient:
An evaluation was initiated in April 2011 assessing the project’s extension period. The findings of this evaluation along with the final project report were submitted to Canadian Heritage in July 2011.
The project’s achievements during the 2011-12 extension period include:
- A total of 1,044 km of trail were added to the Trans Canada Trail;
- Development of a Master Plan and Connection Plan to guide future development; and,
- Enhancement of bilingualism capabilities including the development of a Bilingualism Policy and a website in both official languages.
| 2009-10 Actual Spending | 2010-11 Actual Spending | 2011-12 Planned Spending | 2011-12 Total Authorities | 2011-12 Actual Spending | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | N/A |
Comments on Variances: N/A
Significant evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A
Significant audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A
Link to recipient's website: http://tctrail.ca/
Name of Recipient: Michaëlle Jean Foundation
Start Date: October 1, 2010
End Date: March 31, 2020
Total Funding: $3M
Description: The Michaëlle Jean Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization that encourages communities to use art and creativity to stimulate and enhance citizen participation and dialogue with a particular emphasis on youth.
The objectives of the Foundation are, among others, to: raise awareness of, and leverage the creative power of, the arts to generate a more socially harmonious, civically engaged and innovative Canada; enhance collaborative linkages and networks connecting the arts and creative communities with other sectors of society; promote local and national initiatives to create a new discourse and branding around Canadian culture that better communicate the value of the arts and creativity to the broader public; and contribute to empowering youth and emerging artists in their efforts to use art as a tool to address challenges facing their neighborhoods and communities.
Strategic Outcome(s): Canadian share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.
Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient:
The following five initiatives are the basis upon which the Michaëlle Jean Foundation is building its organization over the next three years.
- Youth Community Program: Working with communities across Canada, this initiative encourages underserved young people to use the arts to become actively engaged in their communities.
- Creative Spaces: Collaborating with the private and public sectors, this initiative works to increase the number of virtual and physical spaces for young creative people to share their ideas and talents and take action to improve their communities.
- Power of the Arts Forums: This initiative facilitates and participates in dialogues, workshops and forums across the country to share learning and encourages a national dialogue on the creative power of the arts to enable action and affect change in communities. The Foundation engages in the facilitation and the participation of these forums.
- Mentorships and Bursaries: To foster intergenerational exchanges of ideas, perspectives and experiences, this initiative connects underserved youth engaged in their communities with mentors. Bursaries are also available to support the mentorship program.
- Fellowships: This initiative provides research fellowships to support graduate and post-doctoral research in Canada on the themes of the arts as a tool for social mediation, for building healthy communities and for empowering youth.
| 2009-10 Actual Spending | 2010-11 Actual Spending | 2011-12 Planned Spending | 2011-12 Total Authorities | 2011-12 Actual Spending | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | $3,000,000* | N/A* | N/A* | $210,660* | N/A* |
* $3M was released in 2010-11. A total of $210,660 was released in April 2011 (2011-12) as matching funds for donations secured by the organization. The grant payment will not exceed $7M for the period 2011-12 to 2019-20.
Comments on Variances: N/A
Significant evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A
Significant audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A
Link to recipient's website: http://www.fmjf.ca/
Name of Recipient: National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation
Start Date: 2003–04
End Date: Perpetual
Total Funding: $22M
Description: The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF) is a charitable organization dedicated to raising funds to deliver programs that provide the tools necessary for Aboriginal peoples, especially youth to achieve their potential. The NAAF promotes the development and education of Aboriginal peoples and their professional advancement in Canadian society through the implementation of such initiatives as the Blueprint for the Future, Post-Secondary Education Program, the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards and Taking Pulse. Overall, the Foundation's programs are made possible through the support of the federal government, corporate sponsors, charitable foundations and individual donors.
The Foundation's core focus continues to be providing scholarships for Aboriginal students. NAAF is the largest supporter of Aboriginal education outside the federal government. In 2003-04, Canadian Heritage provided a $12 million endowment for the establishment of an Aboriginal Post-Secondary Scholarship Program. An additional endowment of $10 million was approved in March 2007. Investment revenues of the endowment are used to award scholarships and bursaries to Aboriginal post-secondary students across Canada.
This Endowment Fund encourages higher levels of achievement in education to help Aboriginal Canadians gain the skills and learning needed to fully contribute to the economic life of their communities and Canadian society.
Strategic Outcome(s): Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.
Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient:
Investment revenues from the endowment provided funding for bursaries and scholarships to First Nations, Inuit and Métis post-secondary students.
| 2009-10 Actual Spending | 2010-11 Actual Spending | 2011-12 Planned Spending | 2011-12 Total Authorities | 2011-12 Actual Spending | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | N/A |
Comments on Variances: N/A
Significant evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A
Significant audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A
Link to recipient's website: http://indspire.ca/node/4120
Name of Recipient: Endowment Fund-Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities
Start Date: 2001–02
End Date: Perpetual
Total Funding: $10M
Description: Thanks to an endowment funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (CILRM) was created in March 2002 for the purpose of becoming a national centre of expertise to better understand the challenges that official language minority communities face and the trends in their environment. Although it is housed at the Université de Moncton, the Institute has a national mission. It carries out activities related to official-language minority communities through revenues generated by the Endowment Fund and other revenues.
The goal of the Institute is to increase research on issues related to official-language minority communities. More and improved research will ensure that leaders of minority-language communities and officials responsible for developing public policy will have a better understanding of the issues that affect the development of Canada's Francophone and Anglophone minority communities.Strategic Outcome(s): Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity.
Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient:
The evaluation of the Institute conducted in 2008–09 confirmed the following results:
- Research capacity continues to grow nationally. CIRLM experts from across Canada were connected to foster cooperation, which led to a larger pool of researchers with an interest in linguistic minorities. Ties between researchers were solidified and information on research opportunities was disseminated.
- The Institute is recognized for the quality of its applied and academic research.
- Research findings are recognized as relevant and useful, especially in the field of education, and are used by many stakeholders, including governments, communities and other researchers.
- CIRLM researchers often attend seminars and conferences, and publish their research in university publications nation-wide.
The formative evaluation presented recommendations that the Institute is implementing progressively.
According to the CIRLM’s annual report 2011-12, the Institute undertook 31 research projects, a number of which were in partnership with universities, government research centres and community organizations. A total of twelve research projects were conducted on such topics as arts, culture, and identity and diversity. There were three projects on family, childhood and education; five on community vitality; and three on minority community health. Nineteen other projects focussing on the following areas are currently underway: five on arts, culture, identity and diversity; four on family, childhood and education; six on community vitality; two on minority community health; as well as two on OLMC legislation, governance and public policy.
| 2009-10 Actual Spending | 2010-11 Actual Spending | 2011-12 Planned Spending | 2011-12 Total Authorities | 2011-12 Actual Spending | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | N/A |
Comments on Variances: N/A
Significant evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A
Significant audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A
Link to recipient's website: http://www.icrml.ca/en
Name of Recipient: Grant to the 2010 Games Operating Trust
Start Date: 2004–05
End Date: Perpetual
Total Funding: A total of $55M was provided by the Government of Canada to the 2010 Games Operating Trust.
Description: In accordance with a Multi-Party Agreement (MPA), the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia each contributed $55M to the Legacy Endowment Fund, which is managed by the 2010 Games Operating Trust. The Legacy Endowment Fund supports the maintenance and operating expenses of specific 2010 Winter Games sporting venues and charitable and not-for-profit organizations managing high-performance amateur sport and coach development programming at those venues and elsewhere in Canada. The three legacy facilities receiving the funds are the Richmond Oval (Richmond, BC), Whistler Olympic Park and the Whistler Sliding Centre (Resort Municipality of Whistler, BC). This commitment by the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia ensures that Canadians will continue to use the venues and benefit from sport programming well beyond 2010 (http://www.vancouver2010.com).
The Board of Directors of the 2010 Games Operating Trust Society (the Society) consists of eight representatives from the signatories to the MPA (Government of Canada, the Province of British Columbia, the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Paralympic Committee, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games [VANOC], the City of Vancouver, the City of Richmond, and the Resort Municipality of Whistler). The Society will oversee and manage this Trust until an agreed-upon future date or until the end of the Monarchy.
Beyond maintaining and operating the three principle venues, the Society will provide the needed funding to continue high-performance programming for Canadian athletes at these venues and elsewhere in Canada.
Strategic Outcome: Canadians participate and excel in sport.
Summary of Results Achieved by the Recipient:
The 2010 Games Operating Trust Society continued to monitor the investment of the Legacy Endowment Fund with regular advice and guidance from a team of investment professionals in order to maximize its growth and ensure the continued operations of legacy venues and leaving a lasting sports legacy for all Canadians beyond 2010. The Society held its annual general meeting to determine and approve the annual distribution amounts for the venues and determine if funds are available for related high‑performance sports development initiatives. Payments are contingent upon post-Games Operating Agreements provided by the Legacy Venues owners and operators and are monitored regularly by a Society sub-committee. The Society is committed to undertaking and publicly disclosing annual audits of the Trust and the Trust Society's Financial Statements.
In 2011, the Trust successfully maintained and operated the three legacy venues, the Richmond Oval, the Whistler Olympic Park and the Whistler Sliding Centre.
During the 2011 calendar year, the Trust distributed $5.4M to the owners of the 2010 Games Legacy venues ($2.7M to the City of Richmond for the Richmond Oval and $2.7M to the Whistler 2010 Sport Legacies Society for the Whistler Olympic Park and the Whistler Sliding Centre). This represents an increase of 20.6% over 2010 distributions. In addition, the Trust was able to generate a net investment return of approximately 1%. The Trust’s Total Fund balance ended the year at $104.5M, compared to $109.2M at the end of the previous year.
The Trust has declared that distributions totaling $5.6M will be made during the 2012 calendar year, representing an increase of 2.4% over 2011 distributions.
| 2009-10 Actual Spending | 2010-11 Actual Spending | 2011-12 Planned Spending | 2011-12 Total Authorities | 2011-12 Actual Spending | Variance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | N/A |
Comments on Variances: N/A
Significant evaluation findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A
Significant audit findings by the recipient during the reporting year and future plan: N/A
Link to recipient's website: http://www.olympic.org/vancouver-2010-winter-olympics
