Applications:

• PDF Version: Scrivens Baillie Fund Application Form, PDF
• WORD Version: Scrivens Baillie Fund Application Form, Word

Could your community of faith offer meaningful summer employment to a young person? Canada Summer Jobs offers funding to help provide summer employment opportunities to youth and young adults across Canada. The program will fund up to the cost of minimum wage for non-profit organizations who are hiring a summer student. EOORC’s Scrivens-Baillie Fund may also be able to offer some funding for congregations who are applying to Canada Summer Jobs and want to offer more than minimum wage. You can learn more about Canada Summer Jobs at: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/funding/canada-summer-jobs.html.

The application period is typically in November and December, with funding announced in the spring. (But please do check the link above for updated information for 2027.) If you want to apply for summer 2027, you may want to start thinking about it in summer 2026 (or even earlier!) so that you have time to learn about the program, get the necessary approvals for your application and finish all the forms on time. Would you like more information or to hear more about the program? Please reach out to Youth and Young Adult Minister Dana Ducette (DDucette@united-church.ca)

Innovation Grants

Innovation Grants are all about providing funding to ideas that haven’t received seed funding in the past. This could mean the fledgling idea has started to be experimented with or the idea itself is in its infancy. Before sitting down to fill out the application, you should connect with a staff member from Embracing the Spirit to have a consultation. Visit the Innovation Grants site.

This funding supports Communities of Faith seeking to engage in new ministry projects to enhance their presence in the community. Applications are open to a variety of demographic and program areas to facilitate creativity in the local Community of Faith.

• Vision-and-Transformation-Application:
  • PDF Version:  Vision and Transformation Application.REVISED2023
  • WORD Version: Vision and Transformation Application.REVISED2023
• EOORC List of Principles and Criteria for the Adjudication of EOORC Vision and transformation Team Grants June 15, 2021
• Please send any questions and completed applications to: visionandtransformationeoorc@gmail.com

Mission Support and Regional Council Grant 2020

• 2020 Mission Support Grant

Church Extension Committee

The Church Extension Committee provides ongoing support for the Communities of Faith in the Eastern Ontario Outaouais Region with respect to their physical assets and facilities.  The Committee provides advice and assistance with respect to:

• new buildings, land and facilities for the purpose of establishing new congregations;
• renovations and upgrades to buildings, equipment and facilities and disposal and demolition of buildings and facilities;
• providing suggestions and advice regarding ways to approach and finance their projects;
• providing financial guidance and support through grants, loans or mortgages to cover a portion of the costs; and,
• to manage the financial assets and land holding entrusted to the corporation.

Guidance for Communities of Faith who wish to apply to the Committee: Guidance for Applicants – Updated December 2025

Church Extension Committee Role, Activities, Support for Communities of Faith: Click Here

The Faithful Footprints program offers up to $30,000 in grants towards energy conservation and renewable energy projects (conditions apply). To date, the program has engaged over 500+ congregations, camps, and buildings across the country. It is part of the United Church of Canada’s goal of reducing emissions by 80% by 2030.

You can find out more here.

This message is for the Education Bursary as managed by the Vision and Transformation Leadership Team.  Are you a student in ministry? Or are you prepared to train as a church organist?  Then this message is for you.

Bursaries are available for two types of students:

• • students in the UCC candidacy pathway and
  • potential church organists.

  To apply for a bursary as a student on the candidacy pathway, you must be registered and attending an approved institution.  You also must be a current UCC candidate for ministry. Candidates from EOORC in the Indigenous Church are also eligible.

  To apply for the church organist bursary, you must be in a voluntary or paid position in music ministry.  You must be engaged with a community of faith within EOORC.

  Please refer to the guidelines linked below:

•  Guidelines for Students in Ministry
• Guidelines for Organists Also find the links to the form for ministry students and the form for organists to be completed and submitted to:visionandtransformationeoorc@gmail.comThe deadline to apply is September 30^th, 2025.  Note that bursary income will be reported on a T4A.If you would prefer a PDF version of any of the above documents, please write to nmatkovsky@united-church.ca.

The Woodwark Student Bursary Fund was established in 1976 by the Reverend Ken Woodwark and his wife Ida in memory of their parents George and Emma Woodwark and George and Katie McDowell. Reverend Woodwark was a Minister at Woodroffe United Church in Ottawa. Interested students should send a letter of interest accompanied by a CV to: Treasurer, Woodroffe United Church, 207 Woodroffe Avenue Ottawa, ON K2A 3V1 treasurer@woodroffeunited.org