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Lynda Silvester Award

"Community Collaboration for Children"

Preamble:

The award was established in April 2010 by the Lyle S. Hallman Foundation to honour the remarkable and enduring contributions made by Lynda Silvester in her role as co-founder of Strong Start and in her roles as an educator and community leader.  

Mission:

 To further the development of community collaborative planning and implementation to achieve a full spectrum of programs and services to support families with children aged 0-10 across Waterloo Region.

Concept:

The award is to be used for one or two day activities needed periodically by collaborative planning groups to further their existing initiatives.  Groups would apply to the fund. 

Goals:

• Help groups go beyond the early stages of working together in order to reach the level of collaboration.

• Help strengthen existing collaboratives so that they become models of collaboration in the community.

• Promote community-wide planning (Waterloo Region)

• Enhance multi-sectoral endeavours

• Emphasize the value of prevention and early intervention

 

Criteria:

• Groups applying must have already made a commitment to and demonstrated efforts to work collaboratively to further their work in a given area.

• The collaborative is addressing community-wide planning (Waterloo Region).

• The group is multi-sectorial with a minimum of 3 sectors involved.

• One of the sectors is Education (school boards)

• Initiatives address the well-being of children from birth to age 10 and their families.

• Considerable in-kind support must come from members of the collaborative group.

Please review What we fund for a list of criteria and priorities that apply to all programmes.

If you’re prepared to submit an application, go to the online application form.