Application Review
The recruitment and capacity building workshops will help teams improve their expressions of interest, planning grant applications, and full applications.
Step 1: Expressions of Interest
Expressions of Interest will be reviewed for:
Food-related challenges and opportunities your community faces with regard to Nourish’s three impact areas: climate, equity, and community well-being.
Teams’ interest in participating in the Anchor Collaborative Cohort to tackle these issues, starting from the Food for Health Levers - and well beyond.
How you will approach building your team, and why you are committed to taking a collaborative approach.
What assets you are aware of that you could imagine leveraging from initial health and community partners.
How your collaborative team sees readiness and timeliness for this work within the context of COVID-19.
What supports you require to be successful.
Whether you are interested in applying for a planning grant and how it would be used during the recruitment period.
The EOI is a necessary step for teams interested in developing a full application later. The selection committee will provide feedback to all teams, to guide them in the development of their full application.
Planning Grant Requests
The selection committee will be reviewing planning grant requests with the aim of supporting a diversity of health organizations (both in terms of type of organization and size) and community partner engagement during cohort recruitment. Planning grants will be awarded to EOIs that demonstrate strong processes to build innovative partnerships and meaningful co-development of full applications by both health care and community organizations. We are not looking for teams to identify specific projects at this point, but instead for a clear sense of the problem area(s) they aspire to tackle and the partnerships they seek to build. Priority will be given to planning grant applications that identify the need to address power dynamics amongst team partners, including those that seek to enable the participation of community stakeholders with fewer resources than a health organization.
Step 2: Full Application
Anchor Collaborative Cohort Selection
In the final selection of the cohort, a review committee will evaluate the strength of full applications along with an eye towards seeking a diverse cohort of teams from across Canada. The diversity of the cohort will include factors such as geography, the wicked problems teams seek to address, and the diversity of partners represented in each of Anchor Collaborative teams. Nourish anticipates that the time between submitting an EOI and the development of a full application will be one of very active learning and exploration - teams may find themselves in very different places from where they initially started.
Full Applications to the cohort will be assessed based on:
Cross-sectoral, multi-stakeholder, and innovative collaborative partnerships.
Depth of commitment from the anchor health care institution, represented by the breadth and commitment of the lead health care team (see Eligible Applicants for more details).
Readiness of the collaborative team in terms of time, priorities, and resources committed.
Commitment to resource a 0.5 FTE Anchor Coordinator role to support the collaborative team.
What was learned from the EOI through to developing a full application - what shifted, deepened, and/or changed.
Demonstrated understanding of the problem(s) to be addressed, as developed through the recruitment and capacity-building workshops in early 2021.
Identified partners and leads for other place-based project funding.