Restrictions on Use of CTKC Grant Funds

The following are not eligible for funding through the CTKC’s ACT Research Grants Program funding:

• Overhead, including an organization's ongoing operational or core expenses (ex. employee salaries, etc.)
• Direct health care service delivery expenses i.e. paid caregivers
• Retroactive funding, or for any project expenses to be incurred prior to the agreed upon project start date
• Debt retirement (including deficits) or reserves; mortgage pay-downs
• Office equipment and furniture
• Activities of religious organizations that serve primarily their membership and/or their direct religious purposes, unless the community at large will benefit significantly
• Annual fund drives
• Fundraising dinners or event sponsorship
• Sabbatical leaves, student exchanges
• Medical facilities or equipment, buildings, renovations or equipment replacement
• Political causes
• Library acquisitions and construction
• Publication of books, however CTKC funds can be used as part of your knowledge transfer plan to support publication of grant findings
• CTKC funds cannot be used to make a contribution to an endowment fund. Endowment funds can provide matching grants for a CTKC funded grant
• Capital requests, with exceptions. Capital requests that are part of the broader project and required for the implementation or delivery of the project to the community will be considered. Funding just for capital costs that are not part of a larger applied research project will not be considered
• Activities previously supported through government funding, separate but related activities may be considered