Team Canada Olympic Day Grant

The Equipment Grant is designed to provide schools with essential sporting equipment, ranging from balls and bats to nets and protective gear as well as professional development. By ensuring that schools have access to quality equipment, we aim to enhance the sporting experience for students, enabling them to participate more fully and safely in various sports activities. 

Through this grant, we seek to remove barriers to entry and facilitate the enjoyment and development of sporting skills among students.

The Advancing Safe and Inclusive Sport Grant provides funding to help schools develop and implement programs that ensure safe, inclusive, and positive environments for all students participating in sport. 

Schools can use this grant to create initiatives such as regular or on-going learning and development sessions for teachers and students, develop peer-led mentorship programs that promote respect and fair play, establish reporting systems for addressing and preventing inappropriate behavior, invest in improving the physical environments in the school to contribute to a sense of safety and belonging for the students (such as locker rooms, signage, etc), budget relieving items such as supporting coaches education and/or training and/or travel for a sports season, or the incorporation of true sport programming into a sports team season such as bringing in a true sport facilitator, signing the true sport agreement, nominating true sport champions on a monthly/weekly basis with a prize. 

By investing in these programs, schools can cultivate a culture of safety, respect, and inclusion, empowering every student to participate confidently in physical activities and sports.

The Infrastructure Grant focuses on improving the physical spaces that facilitate sports participation within schools. This grant can be used for projects such as upgrading gymnasiums and creating outdoor play areas.

By investing in sport infrastructure, we aim to create environments that inspire and enable students to engage in physical activity comfortably and confidently.

The primary Applicant must be an individual who works for a registered school/board/division in Canada including:

– Elementary, intermediate, or secondary publicly funded schools;

– First nation, Métis, and Inuit elementary, intermediate, secondary schools and educational programs; and

– Educational institutions in Canada (e.g., First nations education departments, school boards/divisions, etc.).

Applicants must also meet all other eligibility criteria set out in the Team Canada Olympic Day Grant Terms and Conditions. These include:

– Funding must be used before May 1st, 2025;

– Successful Applicants must take the Reconceptualizing PHE Canada course and provide a copy of their certificate of completion;

– Successful Applicants must agree to complete an impact report by June 1st, 2025, which shall include (1) a detailed financial report for the project, (2) key statistics on the project including the number of students participating, impact, and qualitative/anecdotal feedback.

Download the document Examples of Successful and Unsuccessful Applications to inspire and guide your projects.

Proposed projects will be evaluated based on their alignment with the following key criteria:

Increased Student Participation in Sport: Projects should demonstrate the potential to boost student engagement and involvement in sports. 

Barrier Removal and Financial Need: Evaluation will consider the project’s effectiveness in removing barriers that hinder access to sports. 

Safe, Inclusive, and Positive Participation: Projects should prioritize creating safe, inclusive, and welcoming sport participation experiences for all students. 

Program Continuity and Future Opportunities: Projects should include a plan for sustaining student engagement in sport beyond the initial project period. This could involve creating pathways for continued participation, such as linking to local sports programs, developing in-school initiatives, or other strategies that provide opportunities for ongoing involvement, whether through partnerships or other creative approaches.

Alignment with Grant Category:  Projects will be evaluated on how well they meet the specific objectives and requirements of the grant category (e.g., equipment, program, safe sport, infrastructure).

Application period: November 25, 2024 – January 5, 2025

Application deadline: January 5, 2025 – 23:59pm EST

School notification: January 24, 2025 

Team Canada speaking engagement at school: February – May 30, 2025

Impact Report: June 2025

Terms and Conditions available here.

Recognized annually on June 23, Olympic Day is a worldwide celebration of the Olympic Movement. Based on the pillars of “Move, Learn, Discover – Together for a better world”, Olympic Day  is a day to promote a healthy and active lifestyle.

If you have any questions regarding this program or need support with completing the application, you can always contact the Olympic Education team at cosp@olympic.ca or book a 30 minute session to discuss your application HERE.

Please note that the COC offices will be closed from December 23 until January 1st and therefore support will only be available until December 20th.