This page provides you with everything you need to apply for a 2010 Sunshine Coast Success By 6 Grant, including guidelines, eligibility requirements, application form, and instructions. Pleae read all sections carefully. We look forward to reviewing your application.

About Success By 6®

Success By 6® is an early childhood development initiative dedicated to providing all children with a good start in life. It helps to ensure that children ages 0 to 6 develop the emotional, social, cognitive, and physical skills they need as they enter school.

Success By 6® builds and enhances community through engaging citizens in early childhood development, and funding programs that strengthen services for young children and their families. Funded programs include literacy, nutrition, children's play, parenting and family skills development.

Prevention-focused, research-informed and community-based, Success By 6® envisions a community where all children are valued, respected, nurtured, loved and given the opportunity to develop to their full potential as creative, caring, competent and responsible adults.

 
About the Sunshine Coast Early Childhood Development Planning Table

The ECDPT is a local group who exists to champion, develop and implement our community’s Early Childhood projects, plans and initiatives.
 
We’re a group of professionals whose work in some way impacts families with children aged 0-6. Our group includes parents, Sunshine Coast Regional District Parks and Recreation, School District #46, Ministry for Children and Family Development, Vancouver Coastal Health, the Sunshine Coast Credit Union, Child Care administrators, Community School Coordinators, the Sunshine Coast Community Services Society and other ECD professionals.

We meet monthly to forward the goals of the local Strategic Plan for Early Childhood Development. Projects include campaigns and events for families and children, which take place throughout the calendar year.

We serve every community from Langdale to Egmont.

We adhere to the objectives outlined in the 2009 ECD Strategic Plan:

1. Creating welcoming communities that support healthy and active living for all children & families.
2. Enhancing and developing spaces, places, and services for all children & families.
3. Improving accessibility and affordability for all children & families.
4. Acknowledging and complementing the ECD priorities and planning as articulated by the Sechelt First Nation, the Squamish people, and other local Aboriginal people

To access the Sunshine Coast 2009 ECD Strategic Plan, please click here.


About the Success By 6® Grant Program

The 2010 Sunshine Coast Success By 6 Grant Program is a special funding program to encourage individuals, groups, and organizations to develop community projects that will make our community a great place for families and children.

The Success By 6® Grants are allocated by a Selection Committee comprised of members of the Sunshine Coast Early Childhood Development Planning Table in order to best serve our early years community by helping to support successful established programs, as well as by encouraging the development of new projects. The purpose of these funds is to provide financial support for programs and projects that benefit young children and their families on the Sunshine Coast.

Grantees must meet eligibility requirements and selection criteria. Grantees will complete a final report. The 2010 Success By 6 Grants must be spent by March 31, 2011.


Eligibility Requirements

To be considered eligible for consideration in the selection process, project proposals will successfully demonstrate how they intend to:

·         Be relevant to children zero to six years old and/or their caregivers, including the perinatal period.

·         Not benefit any individual, group or organization in terms of financial profit

·         Network with relevant community partners

·         Support/enhance the Sunshine Coast ECD Strategic Plan objectives

·         Enhance and develop spaces, places, and services for all children & families.

·         Improve accessibility and affordability for children & families

·         Reflect and respect diversity, including local aboriginal cultural considerations

·         Be local

·         Foster the development of skills, resources and capacity for families to ensure children develop to their full potential

·         Make effective and accountable use of the funds

·         Report what change they affected (outcomes)


We welcome collaborative proposals and strongly recommend partnering with others who could contribute to the impact of the program.

 

The fund is not for:

·         private business seeking operational funds

·         projects that do not directly benefit the local early childhood community

·         upgrades and repairs on buildings

·         payments on outstanding debts

·         programs that benefit only one person



Application Requirements

Applications must comprise an Application Form, a cover letter and relevant supporting documentation.



Awards

The number of applications selected for awards and the amounts of those awards will vary depending on the amount of funds available, on community priorities, project deliverables and quality of application. Successful applicants will be notified by phone by late July. Funding decisions are final.


Success By 6® Grant Program Selection Committee

The Sunshine Coast ECD Planning Table oversees the financial management of the Success By 6® Funds. The ECD Planning Table meets annually to review Success By 6® Fund financial statements and the application, eligibility, requirements and screening/selection criteria and processes. The facilitation of the process will be managed by the ECD Community Facilitator, Sarah Pond.

The Screening Committee may fund a finite number of projects within the total budget.

The Success By 6® Application Selection Committee is comprised of members of the Sunshine Coast ECD Planning Table. This Committee will oversee the application review and award process.

A list of applicants with name and working relationship will be provided to the Selection Committee members prior to review of applications to establish potential conflict of interest issues. Any Selection Committee member who works/volunteers for an applicant will be expected to excuse him or herself from consideration of that application. Personal knowledge of an applicant is not sufficient to warrant their exclusion from review and/or discussion of that application.


Selection Criteria
The Selection Committee will first determine that each application is complete and complies with eligibility requirements. Grants will be based on community priorities/need, project goals and relevance to the ECD Strategic Plan. Demand for funding is high. Meeting the criteria does not guarantee a funding award.

Proposals for Success By 6® funds should clearly articulate project outcomes and benefits for the communities, specifically how the project will:

·         Be consistent with the Success By 6 Vision (see below in the “Miscellaneous” Section)

·         Support/enhance the ECD Strategic Plan objectives (see below in the “Miscellaneous” Section)

·         Is inclusive in nature

·         Draw upon community resources and demonstrate resourcefulness

·         Meet an identified Success By 6 priority:

Child/family friendly environments
Children’s health
Family support
Quality childcare
Early literacy
Recreation/culture

·         Respond to gaps in services and resources

·         Be flexible and responsive to the needs of families in the community

·         Address barriers to access

·          Be culturally sensitive 
 
·         Be effective in reaching families

·         Demonstrate a realistic budget for the activities outlined in the proposal

·         Demonstrate a network with relevant community partners

·         Foster the development of skills and capacity

·         Demonstrate the ability to make effective and accountable use of the funds


Miscellaneous
Only applications that meet the eligibility requirements will be assessed by the Selection Committee. Successful applicants will be required to report such information as may be required for monitoring of progress.

Grants must be spent by March 31, 2011.

Success By 6® Vision:
Success By 6 envisions a community where all children are valued, respected, nurtured, loved and given the opportunity to develop to their full potential as creative, caring, competent and responsible adults.

The Strategic Objectives (from the ECD Strategic Plan 2009):

1. Creating welcoming communities that support healthy and active living for all children & families.
2. Enhancing and developing spaces, places, and services for all children & families.
3. Improving accessibility and affordability for all children & families.
4. Acknowledging and complementing the ECD priorities and planning as articulated by the Sechelt First Nation, the Squamish people, and other local Aboriginal people

Instructions:

Submit your completed application by email to scecd@telus.net or deliver hard copy to Sunshine Coast Community Services Society (Attention Sarah Pond), 5630 Inlet Ave, Box 1069 Sechelt, BC, V0N 3A0. Applications must be submitted by 4 pm on July 15, 2010. Include contact information on every page of your application. Applications to the fund will comprise:

·         completed Application Form (blank form avalaible below)
·         cover letter
·         relevant supporting documentation.


For more information:
Sarah Pond, ECD Community Facilitator, scecd@telus.net 604 740-7884

This form, was completed, will comprise part of your application. Please click here to access it, or click on the Download File icon below.

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New Moon Festival Society
Child Care Resource & Referral Program
Parent & Tot Drop In Programs
Mother Goose
Pender Harbour Community School
Early Years Fair
Cedar Grove Accessible Play Park
Shirley Macey Park Playground
Summer Drop-Ins
Perinatal Outreach
Early Pregnancy Course
Perinatal Hot Lunch Program
Moe the Mouse speech therapy
Perinatal Depression Therapy Group

NEWS!
March 31, 2010 
After announcing the termination of the province-wide Success By 6 initiative, the government has returned to the table and has promised to work with the partners to build a long-term sustainable model to support Success By 6 in the province. No dollar amount or timeline was indicated.

The Sunshine Coast community of early Years Community Developers has responded quickly and confidently to the news. While concerned about the impact to our local families, we are pleasede with the government's decision to work with the Success By 6 partnership. As a whole, determined to continue onward and upward with our local collaborations, partnerships, and early years services. WE WILL FIND A WAY! 

It may be a time of change for the provincial SX6 initiative, but here on the Sunshine Coast, this is a (big) shift for us to navigate while we continue on our way to even better supports and resources for our families with young children, in part due to our unique adaptability. If any particular group is able to overcome adversity and to proceed through challenging times in order to serve our local kids, it is our early years community here.


PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT DUE TO THE CUTS (38%) OF SUCCESS BY 6 FUNDS TO THE SUNSHINE COAST, THE COMMITTEE IS DISCUSSING THE BEST USE OF AVAILABLE FUNDS TO SUPPORT CAPACITY AND SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH MARCH 31, 2011.