CFMS Student Initiative Grants

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CFMS Student Initiative Grants Program was established in 2007 to provide support and funding to medical student initiatives. The fund was established in response to the increasing number of medical student-run initiatives and the need for official and financial support from our national student organization.

Many successful projects have benefitted from direct CFMS funding including charitable, educational, and social events all organized by medical students. The goal is to assist students in realizing events or initiatives that promote interactions between CFMS students and member schools.

For the 2023-2024 SIG CFMS received a record number of 114 applications of which 15 have been offered a SIG.

Scroll to the end of this page to see which initiatives were awarded the grant in previous years.

Applications for the SIG 2024-2025 will open December 1st, 2024 and are scheduled to close Sunday, January 26th (11:59 PM PST).

The application form is a Google Form that can be found here. As part of the application you are required to upload your initiative's budget: SIG Application Budget Template. You can download the template as a Word document, but please upload it to the application form as a PDF. Note: no other layout than the provided template will be accepted for the SIG Budget.

Which questions are in the Application from? Check here!

For more information about the grants and how your application will be scored, please see the program guideline 24/25.

For questions please email [email protected]

Brief Project guidelines:

  • Student Initiative Grant funding is intended to help local and provincial start-up projects with initial funding to contribute to their long-term sustainability.
  • Projects will NOT be considered if they have been recipients of CFMS Student Initiative Grants
  • IMPORTANT NOTE: There are two categories of funding available. Tier 1 SIG funding is available for medium to large-scale initiatives and Tier 2 SIG funding is available for small- to medium-scale initiatives. The maximum amount of funding that may be requested via a CFMS SIG is $3,000.00 for Tier 1 and $1,500.00 for Tier 2.
  • Projects will have the option to apply for one of the two tiers of fundings. Please do not increase your budget to ask for the maximum, as we wish to fund as many projects as possible, however for projects with a larger budget, please take note of this limit and look for funding from other sources such that you are able to complete your project with only partial funding from the CFMS.
  • The Student Initiative Grants are NOT meant to fund academic research or travel funding to conferences for individual medical students

Awarded Student Initiative Grant Projects:

SIGs 2023-2024
SIGs 2022-2023
SIGs 2021-2022
SIGs 2020-2021
SIGs 2019-2020