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community education autism spectrum disorders researchFunctional Mind and Body (FMB) is at a pivotal stage of growth, expanding from a family-run initiative into a structured organization with part-time staff and growing partnerships. To fuel this evolution, FMB seeks support in identifying relevant public and private grant opportunities that align with our focus areas: senior wellness, disability support, cognitive fitness, and community education. This project will help us gain strategic insight into the funding ecosystem available in Ontario and Canada, including a list of past awardees and potential collaborators. Our aim is to not only increase access to funding, but also build long-term relationships with like-minded organizations that have a history of receiving such grants.
Conduct detailed research to identify grants applicable to FMB’s offerings (e.g., seniors' wellness, cognitive health, disability inclusion, autism, mobile fitness programs).
Compile a list of recent grant awardees, with organization names, awarded amounts, project focus, and funding source.
Identify potential organizations for future collaboration or partnership, especially those in the GTA.
Provide a timeline of recurring grant cycles and application deadlines.
Deliver a final report and presentation summarizing key findings, recommendations, and a database of at least 15 high-potential grants and 10 organizations worth pursuing.
Scheduled check-ins to discuss progress, address challenges, and provide feedback.
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Minority-Owned Women-Owned BIPOC-Owned Small Business Family-Owned Social Enterprise Community-FocusedFMB was founded in the early days of the COVID Pandemic and currently works with various community organizations, retirement homes and long term care facilities across the GTA with the objective of aiding in the delivery of important brain, body and educational programs to our GTA communities. Our typical fitness programs incorporate five components of brain training (computation, critical thinking, language, memory, and visual/spatial orientation) in addressing wellness needs of our seniors, those with disabilities and our kids/youths. This cognitive component is typically intertwined into our physical activities. At FMB, we compliment our physical and brain activities with health education modules for the senior population. By bringing awareness and mitigating factors to illnesses such as dementia, heart health, gut health, arthritis and many more, we aim to put them in a better position to guard against them. Aside from running our own dedicated FMB programs, most of our time is dedicated to our Partner Programs which are done in conjunction with community and private organizations. In these joint programs, FMB is contracted to deliver customized brain and body fitness programs for fixed durations at our partner's location. Our services are conducted by one of our two mobile training teams. Class sizes are typically 15-20 individuals and FMB provides all equipment required for our programs. Both the physical and cognitive components of our programs are modular and scalable. This allows us to be malleable in our approach to any age group and ability level. Our program is not meant as a replacement for existing programs but is aimed to compliment existing infrastructure and resources. We have always had a focus within the autism community and currently work with focused partners in this area.