Bell Canada: Let’s Talk Community Mental Health Fund

Deadline: June 5, 2026

Program Summary:

We believe mental health matters to everyone. That’s why we are proud to introduce the Bell Let’s Talk Community Mental Fund – our revamped funding program designed to enhance access to mental health care, supports, and services for all communities across Canada. The Fund focuses on supporting proven best practices to scale and expand services that create lasting change and positively impact Canadians’ lives.

With annual grants of up to $25,000 available to eligible charities and qualified donees registered with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), the Fund seeks to empower organizations to meet the mental health needs of their communities. The Fund supports a wide range of organizations that provide mental health supports in communities across Canada. Together, let’s break barriers, build resilience, and ensure mental health resources are accessible to everyone who needs them.

What do we support?

The Bell Let’s Talk Community Mental Health Fund supports projects that:

• Expand or replicate proven programs and services that other mental health agencies already offer.
• Work with an established mental health organization or mental health expert who is involved as a consultant or in the delivery of programming.
• Are evidence-based or evidence-informed.

Evidence-based: Demonstrating evidence-base entails making decisions about how to provide or support mental health care by integrating the best available evidence with practitioner expertise and other resources, and with the characteristics, state, needs, values, and preferences of those who will be affected. Evidence is research findings derived from the systematic collection of data through observation and experiment and the formulation of questions and testing of hypotheses. Its goal is to eliminate unsound or excessively risky practices in favour of those that have better outcomes.

Evidence-informed: Evidence-informed projects incorporate best available research evidence; clients’ needs, values, and preferences; practitioner wisdom; and theory into the clinical decision-making process filtered through the lens of client, agency, and community culture.

Projects must align with the following priorities:

• Supporting Existing Programs (e.g. ongoing program funding, serving more clients, scaling best practice)
• Enhanced Service Offerings (e.g. establish a new service, upgrade to service delivery methods, deepen client impact through additions to the approach)
• Strengthening Teams (e.g. building skills among those delivering services, whether paid, volunteer, or program to build the resiliency of those delivering services)
• Processes, Performance & Evaluation (e.g. any evaluation project, improvement in onboarding or case management, or IT service upgrades)

Grant Amount:

Up to $25,000

Eligible Applicants:

• Canadian Registered Charities or qualified donees as indicated by the Canada Revenue Agency
• Non-profit organizations that have secured a Canadian Registered Charity or qualified donee to act as a sponsoring organization (trustee) for their application and project.
• Post-secondary institutions, including Canadian colleges and universities, and CEGEPs in Québec.