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Feast Centre Community Fellowships

Open

See below for important dates.

About the Award:

Funding Amount: $25,000

Number of Fellowships available: 2

Important dates:

  • Call for applications: February 3rd, 2025
  • Deadline to submit Letter of Intent (LOI): February 17th, 2025 @ 5 pm EST
  • Deadline to submit full application: March 10, 2025 @ 5 pm EST
  • Feedback from iterative review: March 31, 2025
  • Deadline to resubmit (final submission) with feedback from iterative review: April 14, 2025 @ 5 pm EST
  • Reviews and scoring from reviewers: April 14, 2025 – May 5, 2025
  • Notice of decision: May 5, 2025
  • Signing of transfer agreements: May 5 - June 2, 2025
  • Project start / end: June 2, 2025 – June 1, 2026

The Feast Centre will provide an iterative review process of the Community Fellowship applications. Applicants will have the opportunity to ask for advice and support during application development and also once the applications are submitted. Applicants are encouraged to seek advice and support from Feast Centre team members while developing their application. Once all applications are received, initial feedback will be provided to applicants prior to review by the committee. This iterative process will ensure that applications are complete and there are no questions by the reviewers due to a lack of clarity in the application. Thus, the initial review may result in questions being framed by the initial review, with the applicant having an opportunity to address those questions

Community Fellowship Application Guidelines

Community Fellowship Application Form & Support

Stay tuned for a Q&A session that will be held soon to discuss the program, past funded projects, and example research questions. In the meantime, feel free to contact Freddy Monasterio, Research Coordinator at monastef@mcmaster.ca or feastapp@mcmaster.ca with any questions.

Feast Centre Aunties Catherine Booker and Doris Peltier as they talk about the Feast Centre for STBBI Research Community Fellowship program application process. The recording is from the 2023 call. 

 

Application Form 2025

Community Fellowship Recipients

Learn more about the pervious projects.

2022-2023

    Project Title
Julie Bruneau  Jessica Neicun

 Holistic and Culturally Safe STBBI Healthcare Provision for Homeless Indigenous Populations in Montreal

Jessy Dame  Lane Bonertz and Martin Morberg  The Medicine Bundle-Gathering Knowledge in Community
Kimberly Fairman  Vincent Wong  Strategic Agenda for Inuit Health
Tim Grouette  Carrie Martin  Adapting and Operationalizing the Women-Centered HIV-Care Model for Indigenous Women Living with HIV
Trevor Hart  Shiva Archya  Creating a Province-wide 2-Spirited Model of HIV Self-Testing, Treatment, Care and Support: Paving the Path Towards Ending AIDS by 2030
Mona Loutfy  Claudette Cardinal  The Stats Talk Back 2.0
John Schellenberg  Melissa Morris  Needs Assessment for STBBI Screening and Other Diagnostic Services in Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Community Settings: Experiences, Preferences, and Deal-Breakers

2023-2024

    Project Title
John Schellenberg Lorraine Henderson Shifting the Narrative on Sex and STBBI for Indigenous Men Through Crafting and Sharing
Mona Loutfy Claudette Cardinal IndigenEyes; An Autoethnographic Journey into the Heart of a Cree HIV Positive Woman on the Land
Margaret Kisikaw Piyesis  Miranda Keewatin  Research of the Heart: Analyzing All Nations Hope Network to Develop an Indigenous Research Evaluation Framework
Vera Caine  Richard Jenkins  Moose Mountain Aboriginal Sexual Health Education Strategy in the Lakeland Area of the Province of Alberta, Canada: Learning from Families