January 8, 2025.
QAHN is pleased to announce that it has just received funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage (PCH) that will enable it to administer a 4-year program of micro-grants for local heritage projects being undertaken by member-organizations of our network.
Making use of its extensive network of local and regional historical societies, museums, archives, and other English-language heritage organizations across Quebec, QAHN will use the funding it receives through this "Heritage Micro Grant Program" to distribute grants up to $25,000 to institutions all around Quebec whose mission includes, at least in part, the preservation and promotion of the heritage, history and culture of Quebec's English-speaking minority communities.
Of special interest will be proposals that work to share our communities' heritage, history and culture with the province's Francophone majority. QAHN's goal through this program will be to help French-speaking Quebecers and other Canadians to better understand and appreciate the diverse, profound, historic and ongoing contributions of Quebec's official-language minority to Quebec and Canadian society, and ideally to bring the two linguistic communities closer together.
QAHN executive director Matthew Farfan notes that organizations interested in receiving funding during the current fiscal year (2024-2025) should watch for details about eligibility criteria and deadlines in the coming days. Grants awarded during this first year of the program will be deliverable during the second year. For more information, member-organizations may also contact QAHN at: [email protected].
"We are very excited by this opportunity that Canadian Heritage has provided our community," Farfan says, "and we look forward to getting under way in the coming weeks. This program will be a game-changer, and I can't think of a better way to begin this our 25th anniversary year!"