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Strategic outcome: Canadian artistic expressions and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad

Program activity: Heritage

Name of recipient: Trans Canada Trail

Start date: December 2003

End date: March 2011

Description: Trans Canada Trail/Sentier transcanadien leads an initiative, based on widespread voluntary support, to establish a national recreational trail that runs through every Canadian province and territory, linking hundreds of communities. The federal grant for this project is used solely to establish a fund to achieve the following objectives: to administer a program of grants to community-based groups in support of trail-building capital projects (thereby leveraging additional support from other sources); to provide planning for and coordinate development of the Trail; and to establish Trail Pavilions and signage along the route.

The Trail will connect Canadians from all regions of the country with each other, their environment, and Canada’s cultural and natural diversity.

Total Funding	Prior Years’ Funding	Planned Funding 2012-13	Planned Funding 2013-14	Planned Funding 2014-15
$15,000,000	$15,000,000	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary of annual plans of recipient:
The impact of the one-year extension of the grant to TCT has been significant. During 2010-11, the organization undertook a critical analysis of trail development in different regions. This led to the development and implementation of a Connection Plan which permitted revisions to the methods used to connect the Trail sections. The Connection Plan will concentrate efforts on the goal of completing the Trail by 2017. 

A donation of ad space and print ad design resulted in ten ads appearing in the Globe and Mail in 2010-11 to highlight different sections of the Trans Canada Trail and introduce Canadians across the country to the Trail initiative. These donations will continue annually until 2017.

During this period, TCT negotiated a new contribution agreement with the Government of Canada. The Government will invest a further $10 million through Parks Canada.

The 2010-15 TCT Strategic Plan will continue to guide actions around four pillars: Generate Funding, Build Reputation, Facilitate Trail Building and Promote the Benefits of the Trail.

Link recipient’s site: http://www.tctrail.ca/

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity

Program activity: Promotion of and Attachment to Canada

Name of recipient: Michaëlle Jean Foundation

Start date: October 1, 2010

End date: March 31, 2020

Description: The Michaëlle Jean Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization that encourages communities to use art and creativity to stimulate and enhance citizen participation and dialogue with a particular emphasis on youth.

The objectives of the Foundation are, among others, to: raise awareness of, and leverage the creative power of, the arts to generate a more socially harmonious, civically engaged and innovative Canada; enhance collaborative linkages and networks connecting the arts and creative communities with other sectors of society; promote local and national initiatives to create a new discourse and branding around Canadian culture that better communicate the value of the arts and creativity to the broader public; and contribute to empowering youth and emerging artists in their efforts to use art as a tool to address challenges facing their neighbourhoods and communities.

To achieve these ends, the Foundation will provide programming in the areas of creative communities, youth action and democracy. The programming will, thus, bring together support for community initiatives, discussion forums and the promotion of citizen participation through social media.

Total Funding	Prior Years’ Funding	Planned Funding 2012-13	Planned Funding 2013-14	Planned Funding 2014-15
$3,210,660*	$3,210,660	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary of annual plans of recipient:

The following five actions are the basis upon which the Foundation will be building its organization for the next three years.

Youth Community Program: Working with communities across Canada, the Foundation encourages underserved young people to use the arts to become actively engaged in their communities.

Creative Spaces: Collaborating with the private and public sectors, the Foundation is working to increase the number of virtual and physical spaces for young creative people to share their ideas and talents and take action for change.

Power of the Arts Forums: The Foundation will facilitate and participate in dialogues, workshops and forums across the country to share learning and encourage a national dialogue on the creative power of the arts to enable action and affect change in communities.

Mentorships and Bursaries: To foster intergenerational exchanges of ideas, perspectives and experiences, the Foundation will connect underserved youth engaged in their communities with mentors. Bursaries will also be available in association with the mentorship program.

Fellowships: The Foundation will provide research fellowships to support graduate and post-doctoral research in Canada on the themes of the arts as a tool for: social mediation, building healthy communities and empowering youth.

Link recipient’s site: http://www.fmjf.ca/index.html

*$3M was released in 2010-11 from Vote 5; an additional $210,660 will be paid in 2011-12 pending approval. The grant payment will not exceed $7M for the period 2011-12 to 2019-20. 

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity

Program activity: Engagement and community participation

Name of recipient: National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation

Start date: 2003-04

End date: N/A

Description: The National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF) is a charitable organization dedicated to raising funds to deliver programs that provide the tools necessary for Aboriginal peoples, especially youth to achieve their potential. The NAAF promotes the development and education of Aboriginal peoples and their professional advancement in Canadian society through the implementation of such initiatives as the Blueprint for the Future, Post-Secondary Education Program, the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards and Taking Pulse. Overall, the Foundation's programs are made possible through the support of the federal government, corporate sponsors, charitable foundations and individual donors.

The Foundation’s core focus continues to be providing scholarships for Aboriginal students. The NAAF is the largest supporter of Aboriginal education outside the federal government. In 2003-04, Canadian Heritage provided a $12 million endowment for the establishment of an Aboriginal Post-Secondary Scholarship Program. An additional endowment of $10 million was approved in March 2007. Investment revenues of the endowment are used to award scholarships and bursaries to Aboriginal post-secondary students across Canada.

This Endowment Fund encourages higher levels of achievement in education to help Aboriginal Canadians gain the skills and learning needed to fully contribute to the economic life of their communities and Canadian society.

Total Funding	Prior Years’ Funding	Planned Funding 2012-13	Planned Funding 2013-14	Planned Funding 2014-15
$22,000,000	$22,000,000	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary of annual plans of recipient:
The NAAF's Education Program includes the Post-Secondary Scholarship Program. It awards $2 million a year in scholarships through a juried process to Aboriginal students across Canada for careers in Fine Arts and Culture, Health, and post-secondary education in all disciplines.

The NAAF supports studies at accredited universities, colleges or CEGEP for a certificate, diploma or degree. Support for one-year upgrading or certificate programs is also available. Students enrolled in graduate studies towards masters or doctoral degrees are eligible for study outside of Canada.

The NAAF monitors and tracks the progress of bursary and scholarship recipients. Students complete questionnaires about their current studies and future plans and the NAAF reports annually on these results.

Link recipient’s site: http://www.naaf.ca

Strategic outcome: Canadians share, express and appreciate their Canadian identity

Program activity: Official Languages

Name of recipient: Endowment Fund-Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities

Start date: 2001-02

End date: Perpetual

Description: Thanks to an endowment of $10M funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (CILRM) was created in March 2002 for the purpose of becoming a national centre of expertise to better understand the challenges that official language minority communities face and the trends in their environment. Although it is housed at the Université de Moncton, the Institute has a national mission. It carries out activities related to official-language minority communities through revenues generated by the Endowment Fund and other revenues.

The goal of the Institute is to increase research on issues related to official-language minority communities. More and improved research will ensure that leaders of minority-language communities and officials responsible for developing public policy will have a better understanding of the issues that affect the development of Canada’s Francophone and Anglophone minority communities.

Total Funding	Prior Years’ Funding	Planned Funding 2012-13	Planned Funding 2013-14	Planned Funding 2014-15
$10,000,000 for the first year	$10,000,000	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary of annual plans of recipient:
For Canadian Heritage, CILRM will publish an annual report of its activities and performance measures six months after the end of the fiscal year.

Link recipient’s site: http://www.icrml.ca/index.php?lang=en

Strategic outcome: Canadians participate and excel in sport

Program activity: Sport

Name of recipient: Grant to the 2010 Games Operating Trust

Start date: 2004-05

End date: Perpetual

Description: In accordance with a Multi-Party Agreement (MPA), the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia each contributed $55 million to the Legacy Endowment Fund, which is managed by the 2010 Games Operating Trust. The Legacy Endowment Fund supports the maintenance and operating expenses of specific 2010 Winter Games sporting venues and charitable and not-for-profit organizations managing high-performance amateur sport and coach development programming at those venues and elsewhere in Canada. The three legacy facilities receiving the funds are the Richmond Oval (Richmond, BC), Whistler Olympic Park and the Whistler Sliding Centre (Resort Municipality of Whistler, BC). This commitment by the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia ensures that Canadians will continue to use the venues and benefit from sport programming well beyond 2010 (http://www.vancouver2010.com).

The Board of Directors of the 2010 Games Operating Trust Society (the Society) consists of eight representatives from the signatories to the MPA (Government of Canada, the Province of British Columbia, the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Paralympic Committee, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games [VANOC], the City of Vancouver, the City of Richmond, and the Resort Municipality of Whistler). The Society will oversee and manage this Trust until an agreed-upon future date or until the end of the Monarchy.

Beyond maintaining and operating the three principle venues, the Society will provide the needed funding to continue high-performance programming for Canadian athletes at these venues and elsewhere in Canada.

Total Funding	Prior Years’ Funding	Planned Funding 2012-13	Planned Funding 2013-14	Planned Funding 2014-15
$ 55,000,000	$ 55,000,000	N/A	N/A	N/A

Summary of annual plans of recipient:
The 2010 Games Operating Trust Society will continue to monitor the investment of the Legacy Endowment Fund with regular advice and guidance from a team of investment professionals in order to maximize its growth and ensure the continued operations of legacy venues and leaving a lasting sports legacy for all Canadians beyond 2010. The Society will hold annual general meetings to determine and approve the annual distribution amounts for the venues and determine if funds are available for related high-performance sports development initiatives. Payments are contingent upon post-Games Operating Agreements provided by the Legacy Venues’ owners and operators and are monitored regularly by a Society sub-committee. The Society is also committed to undertaking and publicly disclosing annual audits of the Trust and the Trust Society's Financial Statements.

Link recipient’s site: http://www.vancouver2010.com