Broadcasting Accessibility Fund
Call for Letters of Intent – February 1 to March 22, 2021
The Broadcasting Accessibility Fund (the Fund) is pleased to announce its seventh Call for Letters of Intent – Grant Applications to the Fund.
If you intend to apply to the Fund for a Grant, you must complete a Letter of Intent and submit this to our offices no later than end of day, Monday, March 22, 2021. For purposes of this document, reference to “you” and “your” include any organization on whose behalf you are acting, and references to “our” refer to the Fund.
Only those applicants who submit an acceptable Letter of Intent by March 22, 2021 that includes all the information below will be considered, and may receive an invitation to submit a full application for funding. The review of Letters received begins immediately.
Your Letter of Intent should be a maximum of three (3) pages in length only. Please do not include any attachments. The following elements must be included as part of your letter:
1) Organization, Company or Personal Enterprise Submitting the Letter
Provide a very brief introduction to the organization, company or other entity submitting the Letter. A link to a website may be included if desired.
2) Objective
Please describe the objective of your project or initiative and state under which of our Funding Streams your project or initiative falls. The objective of your project or initiative should be clearly stated. Applicants are expected to review our Mandate and to describe how the proposed project or initiative will further the objectives of the Fund’s Mandate.
3) Proposed Method (if applicable)
If your grant proposal is research-oriented, which methodology or methodologies do you intend to apply? Clearly state if these are quantitative and/or qualitative in nature. You may wish to provide a brief summary of your overall research design to support your answer.
Does your proposal make use of inclusive design principles? Briefly explain.
4) Deliverables
What are the specific deliverables associated with your project or initiative (for example, an app, software, hardware, etc.)?
5) Anticipated Impact
Please describe the anticipated impact of your proposal. Based on our Mandate, in what way will your project or initiative provide practical solutions that tangibly increase the accessibility of broadcasting content in Canada?
6) Key Personnel
Please identify the key personnel that would be working on your project. Full resumés are not required at this time, but a brief biography should be included.
7) Project Results & Dissemination
Briefly explain your plan with respect to the results of your proposed project, i.e. distribution, dissemination, sale or other use(s) of the projects outcomes.
Please Note the Following
By submitting a Letter of Intent or Grant Application, you hereby agree as follows:
- The Fund’s office may contact you should additional information or clarification be required, or for any other purpose in connection with the Mandate of the Fund, as may be determined by the Fund.
- While Letters of Intent must be provided by potential applicants for grants, the Fund has no responsibility to you in connection with any costs that you may incur in preparing and submitting a Letter of Intent or Grant Application to the Fund.
- The Fund in no way guarantees that you will be approached to submit a full application, and in no way guarantees that any application subsequently submitted to the Fund will be awarded a Grant.
- The decision of the Fund on Letters of Intent and Grant Applications is final. For greater certainty, no appeal of our decision is possible.
- In general, the Fund will not accept proposals for the production of programming, the development/impact of regulation and public policy pertaining to accessibility, or other projects that would not, in their results, tangibly increase accessibility to broadcasting in Canada.
- The Fund or any of its directors, officers, staff, volunteers, contractors, or other representatives will have no liability to you arising out of or in connection with the Letter of Intent or Grant Application process and you hereby release, waive, discharge and covenant not to sue the Fund or any of its directors, officers, staff, volunteers, contractors, or other representatives in connection therewith.
How to Submit a Letter of Intent to the Fund
Letters of Intent are due to the Fund no later than end of day, Monday, March 22, 2021. You will be notified once your Letter is received at our offices.
Letters of Intent must be sent to Richard Cavanagh, CEO/Funding Officer, Broadcasting Accessibility Fund, using one of the following methods:
By email
Email your Letter of Intent to richard@baf-far.ca.
By fax
Fax your Letter of Intent to (1) 613-729-8892.
By ground mail
Allowing sufficient time for delivery, mail your Letter of Intent to:
Broadcasting Accessibility Fund
Attn: Richard Cavanagh
CEO/Funding Officer
251 Loretta Avenue South
Ottawa, Ontario
K1S 4P6
Alternative submission formats
The Fund will make every effort to accept submission in the alternative format of your choice (for example, by audio or video recording). If you wish to submit your Letter of Intent in an alternative format, please contact the Fund office.
For further information, or if you have questions about submitting a Letter of Intent to the Broadcasting Accessibility Fund, please contact Richard Cavanagh, richard@baf-far.ca or (1) 613-915-5575.
