Closed for 2024
Discover a story
Discover the impact one Community Fund recipient is having in their community.
Funding Opportunities
Bell Let’s Talk has partnered with more than 1,500 organizations providing mental health resources and services throughout Canada. This includes hospitals, universities, research and community organizations, and groups providing care and social services. Here you’ll find the latest information on what support is available through our different funds.
Bell TPL Fund
The Bell True Patriot Love Fund is a multi-year initiative that provides annual grants of $5,000 to $75,000 to community mental health programs for serving military members, Veterans and their families.
A thousand Canadian military personnel are medically released each year, with 40% of them returning home with psychological injuries. Since its launch in 2013, the Bell True Patriot Love Fund has provided 134 grants and more than $3.1 million to organizations across the country that work to improve access to mental health care.
Closed for 2024
Who is eligible?
- Any program or service that is already offered or fully funded by the Canadian government. To find out which governmental services, programs and funding you may be eligible for, please read the relevant sections: For regular and reservist members of the Canadian Forces: National Defence and Canadian Forces For Veterans: Veterans Affairs Canada
- Programs that do not directly impact Canadian serving members, Veterans and/or military families
- Politically affiliated programs, organizations or lobbyists
- Religious organizations
- Individuals or individual families
- Multimedia and art productions including films (documentary and feature), music and plays
- Individual researchers
- Staff salaries
Application details
Community Fund
The Community Fund provides annual grants of up to $25,000 to Canadian registered charities to increase access to mental health supports and services in communities across Canada.
Since 2011, the Fund has supported 1,100 organizations and has invested more than $20 million.
The 2024 Community Fund is now closed. Organizations will be notified by the end of the summer 2024 if their project is approved or declined. Grants will be disbursed before December 31, 2024.
Closed for 2024
Who is eligible?
- Business or contract fundraisers, individuals, families and political parties
- Private clinics
- Capital campaigns and projects
- Medical equipment
- Anti-stigma projects
- Multi-year funding requests
- Projects supporting neurological and developmental disorders as defined by the World Health Organization
- Event sponsorship
- Research projects
Diversity Fund
The Diversity Fund supports organizations aiming to reduce the stigma around mental illness and/or increase access to culturally informed mental health and well-being support for the Black, Indigenous and People of Colour communities in Canada.
As part of Bell’s commitment to take a strong stance against racism, social injustice and the impacts on ethno-cultural communities, the Bell Let’s Talk Diversity Fund supports the mental health and well-being of members of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities across Canada.
Discover a story
Discover the impact one Diversity Fund recipient is having in their community.
Who is eligible?
- Business or contract fundraisers, individuals, families and political parties
- Private clinics
- 1 year project
- Capital campaigns and projects
- Medical equipment
- Projects supporting neurological and developmental disorders as defined by the World Health Organization
- Event sponsorship
- Research projects
- Projects delivering mental health services for the broader Canadian community may be eligible to apply for a Community Fund grant.
Application details
Diversity Fund Circle of Advisors
To help guide us, we have engaged a broad circle of advisors, including mental health experts and people with lived experience from within these communities who will assist us in the Fund review process as well as providing advice on directions and priorities, and consultation on the development and future evolution of the Fund.
Post-Secondary Fund
The Bell Let's Talk Post-Secondary Fund was launched in 2021 to support Canadian colleges and universities in implementing the Standard, the creation of which Bell, The Rossy Family Foundation and RBC had enabled with a joint $1 million donation in 2018, working in partnership with the Canadian Standards Association. Since then, the Fund has awarded over $6 million in grants to Canadian post-secondary institutions, starting with more than $3 million in initial grants to over 125 schools in early 2021. These funds helped enhance mental health programs on campuses across the country, firmly establishing the Standard and the Québec Action Plan, and laying the foundation for future initiatives.
Schools looking for future funding are encouraged to apply through the Community Fund.
Application details
Major gifts
Eligible organizations can apply for funding through the various funds above. Additional funding for major gifts and research projects are accepted by invitation only.