One-Time Funding Requests

We offer One-Time Funding to students and community members! This funding opportunity provides financial support for campus and community projects or initiatives around social and environmental justice. Currently, the maximum amount available is $750 per project.

You can find more information and the application form by clicking below.

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Projects funded in the 2024-2025 year!

Arts, Culture & 2SLGBTQIA+ Programming:
Drag-Burlesque Performance (Brantford): ~$1,550 budget approved (tabled pending venue finalization). In collaboration with Big Cityyy Arts.
Queer Joy Pride Party 2025 (Reba Joy): $750.
Brant Pride "Joy" Event: $600 in one-time funding prior to their action group status.
b.lit — in conversation: $750 for a literary event.
Art Bus / The Living Room: $750 to bring mobile art programming to campus.

Food Justice & Environment:
Brantford Naturalists: Funding for equipment (binoculars, guides) and events like a Grand River paddle trip.

Palestinian Solidarity & Education:
Palestinian Justice Club: $750 for general programming.
"Gaza Will Rise" Exhibit: $750 for event costs.
Huwaida Arraf Speaking Event: $500 sponsorship for a talk on "International Solidarity and the Palestinian Freedom Struggle" at UW.
Palestine Day 2025: $750 for "The Land Remains" event.

Social Justice & Community Events:
Pieces of Us: $750 for a series celebrating diversity in Social Work.
WGS Student Society Self-Defense Class: $725.
SWAN's Closet: $750 for a community clothing initiative.
Sex Worker Support Drop-Ins: $560 for two sessions in collaboration with SWAN.
Adeola Egbeyemi Film Screening: $500 for film license + $150 honorarium.


Projects funded in the 2023-2024 year!

  • Grassy Narrows River Run

  • Mask 4 Mask

  • Fight Back KW - Shelter Building Project

  • Asian Night Market

  • Wildflower Finds

  • Canada’s Role in the World: Critical Conversations on Canadian Foreign Policy and Film Screening

  • Shaping justice: the philosophical roots of Black social justice movements

  • Operation Sandbag House (OSH)

  • A Place 2 Be

    Projects funded in the 2022-2023 year!

  • Queer Quoir KW

  • Caribbean Week - Winter 2023 with The Islands

  • QT Open Mic Series

  • Animal Kingdom Renewable Food Supply

  • Hate Crime Freedom Of Information Request

  • The Unhoused Experience: 24-Hour Challenge by Fight Back

  • A Ramadan without Injustice: Community Iftar with Palestinian Youth Movement

  • Climate Justice in Action Panel: How Do We Stand with the Frontlines? with LSSA


    Projects funded in the 2021-2022 year!

  • Black Talent

  • Sustainibabe - Environmental Social Media Campaign

  • Get Bindered 101: A Binder Workshop and Raffle Giveaway

  • Revitalizing Our Sustenance Project (ROSP)

  • Support Women Entrepreneurs in Africa with HerStart

  • Food Justice Garden


    Projects funded in the 2020-2021 year!

  • WLU Palestinian Students’ Association

  • KW May Day Event Series

  • Survivors are Fighters - Concert in Brantford

  • Writing Difficult Conversations Series (Waterloo)

  • Accessible Learning Event Series (Brantford)

  • Brantford Food Distro and PPE distribution (personal protective equipment i.e. masks, gloves)

  • The Protected Place - Kahnonstaton

  • Supplies for Unsheltered People (Waterloo)

  • Academic Research on Top Surgery for Trans Folks

  • Yardshare Project (via KW Urban Harvesters)

  • Seed and Soil Distro (via KWUH)

  • Mask Distro (via KWUH)

  • Postcard Project (Waterloo)

  • Food Distro and PPE (via KW Food Not Bombs)

  • THE ISLANDS (Laurier's Association of Caribbean Students)

  • O:se Kenhionhata:tie (support the general work of Land Back Camp in KW as well as "Stories from Land Back Camp")

  • 1492 Land Back Lane (to support legal funds of Six Nations Land Defenders)

  • Textile Magazine Project 2020 (amplifying Black, Indigenous and racialized voices)

  • KW Urban Harvester to support the Indigenous Food Sovereignty of Waterloo Region and the N6NA community garden (to fund garden plots for Indigenous folks in Waterloo)

  • Kitchener Food Not Bombs and Community Kitchen Co-operative of Kitchener Waterloo for two rounds of "Cooking for a Crowd" (which includes food distribution in Waterloo. One collective for students and one for community members).

Projects funded in the 2018-2019 year!

Centre for Community Based Research (CCBR) Bursaries

The CCBR is focused on strengthening communities through social research. Their approach to research is participatory and action-oriented in a way that mobilizes people to participate as full and equal members of society. They are an independent, non-profit organization located in Kitchener, Ontario. 

The Helmut Braun Memorial Award was established in 2001 by CCBR. This award is named after Helmut Braun, an advocate for the rights of folks living with mental health issues. The fund contributes to the cost of post-secondary education for students pursuing social studies in a variety of disciplines, for students in financial need. From 2015 to 2019, the award was largely funded by LSPIRG.

More info here!