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KAIROS Anti-Poverty Funding
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In 1974, the Presbyterian, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, United, and Anglican churches began working together in an organization called PLURA to fund local anti-poverty initiatives across Canada. Nearly 30 years later, PLURA continues as a part of KAIROS. |
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- Anti Poverty Fund application form now available as a PDF file (77K). Please click here. Note that the form must be sent to your provincial committee.
- KAIROS Anti-Poverty
Fund brochure 2006-2007: please download and hand out freely!
- Report of the biennial
KAIROS Anti-Poverty Forum, September 2005
KAIROS works through provincial committees of church and low-income representatives to fund low-income groups who promote social justice through actions that:
- attack and seek to overcome the causes of poverty and injustice;
- encourage community participation that will give low-income people more control over their own lives;
- facilitate an awareness of the basic causes of social injustice
- support community based economic development through alternate models (such as co-operatives, non-profit or worker-controlled corporations, etc.)
In 2004, $143,000 was allocated to 80 projects based in most major Canadians cities, many towns, and a number of rural areas spanning all ten Canadian provinces and two First Nations territories.
Examples of projects recently supported include:
- door-to-door organizing of low-income people in Toronto
- StreetNewz, a community newspaper in Victoria that provides voice and income opportunities for low-income people
- advocacy to increase access by low-income people to public transit in Vancouver;
- a province-wide citizen inquiry on minimum wages in Manitoba;
- citizen tours of low-income neighbourhoods in Sherbrooke;
- a low-income craft cooperative on Prince Edward Island;
- and a community-based survey on food insecurity in Newfoundland.
Resources are available for projects across Canada. To find out if your group or a group you know of is eligible for funding, contact your provincial KAIROS anti-poverty funding committee.
By providing seed-money to such work, the KAIROS Anti-Poverty Fund continues the work of PLURA, a joint project of the Presbyterian, Lutheran, United, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches begun in 1974.
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