The Grand Challenges Canada Foundation offers donors an avenue to align their giving with Grand Challenges Canada. Join us in amplifying Grand Challenges Canada’s work in supporting innovators who are solving some of the world’s most important challenges.
We help Grand Challenges Canada reach its funding and partnership goals so they can continue to fund Big Ideas with Bold Impact across 3 areas of impact:
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Global Health Innovation
Grand Challenges Canada has identified five priority areas as having the greatest potential for impact using innovation; maternal, newborn & child health; early childhood development; safe pregnancy termination; global mental health; and sanitation.
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Humanitarian Innovation
Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge is the first innovation challenge to focus on humanitarian crises caused by conflict. In 2020, only 4.7% of total humanitarian funding was provided to locally or nationally led entities according to the World Disasters Report.
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Indigenous Innovation
Indigenous peoples receive only just over 0.5% of grants – or $1 for every $178 given to non-Indigenous groups in Canada. There are several Indigenous innovators that could benefit greatly from the resources that the Indigenous Innovation platform has to offer.