Catapult is now accepting applications for the Spring 2025 Open Call!
Visit the RHF Funding Opportunities Portal for details about the funding opportunity and to apply!
Catapult Canada’s vision is for every young person in Canada to achieve their own learning goals, build the skills they need to be full participants in their communities, and be the architects of their own career paths.
Established by the Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF), Catapult Canada channels new resources to community programs, helping them build know-how, capacity, funding, evaluation frameworks, partnerships, and infrastructure.
Catapult supports youth-serving organizations in Canada to design, build, scale up, and evaluate the impact of initiatives to better support Canadian youth in their learning goals, especially those underserved by the education system and disengaged from education and/or career pathways.
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Catapult Funded Project Objectives:
Projects funded by Catapult will advance learning opportunities and improve the educational and career pathways for young learners, particularly those youth facing multiple and intersecting barriers. This includes newcomers to Canada; refugees; youth fleeing violence and/or trauma; youth not in education, employment, or training (NEET Youth); Black youth; Indigenous youth; other racialized youth; LGBTQ2s+ youth; youth living in rural or northern areas; disabled youth; youth in other underserved groups. Funded projects will strive to include youth beneficiaries in their design, delivery, and evaluation, and to build and strengthen their relationships with communities they serve. Funded projects will do this by:
- Designing, building, scaling, or evaluating activities related to improving youth learning outcomes and increasing the reach and effectiveness of those activities.
- Addressing systemic gaps in secondary education completion and in access to post-secondary education.
- Learning more about what works (and what doesn’t work) in supporting learning opportunities for youth.
- Building organizational capacity, leadership, and long-term sustainability.
- Fostering greater community engagement and partnership across the sector through peer-to-peer learning and other promising practices.
- Facilitating knowledge mobilization for information about improving youth learning outcomes across Canadian communities.
Joining the Catapult Community
Catapult is committed to building a sustainable and dynamic ecosystem of youth-serving organizations in Canada that facilitates peer-to-peer learning and problem solving; the sharing of resources, promising practices and innovative ideas; and providing community support and partnership. To that end, all grantees will be part of a community of practice, facilitated by Catapult and co-developed by grantees to meet their evolving needs.
About the Rideau Hall Foundation
The Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF) is an independent and non-political registered charitable organization established to amplify the impact of the office of the Governor General as a central institution of Canadian democracy, and to better serve Canadians through a range of initiatives linked to learning, leadership, giving and innovation.
Today the RHF has become a nation-building charity: a catalytic platform to connect people, causes and organizations which – while they will exist for differing purposes – share a common belief in and commitment to the potential of Canada. Learn more about how we work to shine a light on Canadian excellence here: www.rhf-frh.ca.
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