Without the help of funding, many dreams would not be realized.

Team Investors Groups Amateur Athletes Fund presented by Athletes CAN
In keeping with their commitment to amateur sport in Canada, Investors Group established an Amateur Athlete Bursary Fund for Canada’s top amateur athletes in 2000.

Working in partnership with AthletesCAN, the Fund awards twenty bursaries of $5,000 to Canadian amateur athletes each year. The bursary selection committee is made up of active and retired national team athletes and officials from AthletesCAN.

For more information on this fund, visit www.truesportfoundation.ca.

The Stacey Levitt Women and Sport Scholarship
Presented by Canadian Association for the Advancement for Women Sport

The Stacey Levitt Women and Sport Scholarship is in memory of a very special 18-year-old woman who was struck down by a car while she was jogging on August 30, 1995. The $2,500 scholarship is open to a young woman, a girls' team, or a sport organization that exemplifies Stacey's ideals and qualities. It will be shared by five recipients.

For more information on this scholarship, visit www.truesportfoundation.ca.

Sport Canada
The Athlete Assistance Program (AAP) contributes to the pursuit of excellence through its contribution to improved Canadian athlete performances at major international sporting events, enabling athletes to combine their sport and academic or working careers while training intensively in pursuit of world-class performances.

The Sport Support Program (SSP) funding is aimed at developing athletes and coaches at the highest international levels; providing sound technically-based sport programming for all athletes; increasing the number of Canadians from all segments of society involved in sport, and advancing Canadian interests and values in Canada and abroad.

The Hosting Program is a key instrument in the Government of Canada’s overall approach to sport development in Canada and aims to enhance the development of sport excellence and the international profile of sport organizations by assisting sport organizations to host the Canada Games and international sport events in Canada.

For more information on these programs please visit www.pch.gc.ca.