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DATAide Grants

What are the DATAide grants?

A digital transformation takes time as well as human and financial resources. To effectively support organizations in their digital transformation, DATAide offers a three-tiered grant program.*

This funding becomes accessible after different steps in the pathway and reach up to $5,000 for Seed Grants, $15,000 for Acceleration Grants and $50,000 for Innovation Grants.

*DATAide grants have been made possible thanks to a financial contribution from the Fonds québécois d’initiatives sociales (FQIS).

The program

Orientation component

WEBINAR

+ Mandatory activity

+ One-time mandatory participation

Seed Grants of 5 000 $

Training component

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TRAINING

Acceleration Grants up to 15 000 $

Leadership component

LEADERSHIP SUPPORT LAB

Innovation Grants up to 50 000 $

 

About the DATAide grants

Seed
Grants

  • Have participated in the digital transition orientation webinar. A registration for the webinar does not give the right to submit a project, the agency must have attended the activity.

  • $5,000

    • Non-profit agencies located in Quebec

    • Registered as a charity

    • Agencies that fight poverty and social exclusion?

    *For agencies that do not have a charity number, a trustee may receive the money on behalf of your agency.

  • Any project to support agencies in their digital transformation and whose relevance will be demonstrated by the applicant:

    • Purchase of hardware and technological tools;

    • Acquisition and implementation of digital solutions;

    • Support from a specialized resource (analyses, diagnostics, digital transition plans, etc.);

    • Training activities related to the acquisition of digital skills;

    • Etc.

Acceleration
Grants

  • Have taken all six DATAide training modules.

  • $15,000  

  • Non-profit agencies located in Quebec

    Registered as a charity

    Agencies that fight poverty and social exclusion

    *For agencies that do not have a charity number, a trustee may receive the money on behalf of your agency.

  • Any project aimed at supporting the digital transformation of organizations and whose relevance will be demonstrated by the applicant:

    Purchase of computer hardware and technological tools;

    Acquisition and implementation of digital solutions;

    Support by a specialized resource (analyses, diagnostics, digital transition plans, etc.);

    Training activities related to the acquisition of digital skills;

    Etc.

Innovation
Grants

  • Have attended the 8 half-days of the leadership support component.

  • $50,000

    • Non-profit agencies located in Quebec

    • Registered as a charity

    • Agencies that fight poverty and social exclusion?

    *For agencies that do not have a charity number, a trustee may receive the money on behalf of your agency.

  • Any project that aims to support the digital transformation of organizations and whose relevance is demonstrated by the applicant. To be eligible, projects must:

    - involve the development of a new product or process, or the

    - the significant improvement of an existing product or process;

    Projects can be carried out by:

    ▪ A single organization ;

    ▪ A group of organizations ;

    ▪ An organization or group of organizations, in collaboration with one or more

    or several public research centers in Quebec (CEGEPs, universities, etc). A project is considered collaborative when a group of non-affiliated organizations share the project's costs, benefits and intellectual property project, with or without the collaboration of one or more of Quebec's public public research centers.