Grace Dart Foundation Knowledge Mobilization Fund
The Grace Dart Foundation Knowledge Mobilization Fund for Empowered Aging matches students with community organizations and non-profits working primarily with older adults. It is an opportunity to co-develop community-engaged activities with older adults and to acquire experience in the community sector.
Photo Credit: Guillaume Jabbour
About the award
Empowered aging considers growing old as an active and evolving process wherein diverse individuals have opportunities to access resources and supports that will enable ongoing realization of personal potentials as needs and situations change over time.
A knowledge mobilization award is not a research award: it is an award to help make your research relevant to potential audiences. The goal of this award is to develop effective ways, using methods developed through your research, to engage older adults in topics that are important to them and to bring research knowledge and expertise to other sectors of society.
Award amount
- $10 000 to the student award recipient for the 2025-26 award year.
- $5 000 to the community organization selected by the student.
- $2 500 for costs related to materials.
Eligibility requirements
- Open to Graduate Diploma, Masters, or PhD students.
- Student must be supervised or sponsored by a faculty member of engAGE.
- Submit to engage@concordia.ca (attention: Eric Craven, engAGE coordinator) by Thursday, May 15th, 2025.
Application requirements
To apply for this award, eligible students need to email the following documents as a single PDF file:
- Cover page with your full name, student ID number, the name of your academic program and department, name(s) of your engAGE supervisor(s).
- A 250 word proposal of your knowledge mobilization activity (in your proposal describe your research, the proposed activity, how your current research could benefit from some form of community engagement and how your proposed activity connects with empowered aging).
- Letter of nomination from an engAGE faculty member or researcher willing to assist with supervising the project.
- Academic CV & unofficial transcript.
Please include the name of the proposed community organization and the audience of your research in the proposal and/or cover page.
Important submission notes
All materials need to be submitted to Eric Craven (engAGE Coordinator) at engage@concordia.ca by Thursday, May 15th, 2025.
Students who have previously received the Grace Dart award may re-apply, but not for the same project. Preference will be given to students who have not previously received an engAGE award. Likewise, community organizations who have received the award in the past remain eligible.
Past awards (2024-2025)
Emma Chen (HKAP) — Online Program of Balance through Dance with Respecting Elders Communities Against Abuse (RECAA)
Brock Dishart (Humanities) — Community Quilting Project with Gay and Grey Montreal, NDG
Guillaume Jabbour (Communication Studies) — Soundscape Project with Suspicious Fish, Verdun
Andrea Tremblay (Independent Studies) — Community Gardening with New Hope for Senior Citizens, NDG
About the Grace Dart Foundation
The Grace Dart Foundation provides love and care to older adults in the greater Montreal area. The Foundation supports a warm and personal environment for the well being of older people through its various donation efforts, in line with the following five areas of giving: Basic Needs, Loneliness & Isolation, Socialization & Personal Development, Cognitive Disorders, and Living Environment.
