Editorial Policy

Who writes this content

Funding content on this site is researched and reviewed by the Impact Applications team in Calgary — the same people who prepare and submit real applications to these programs for clients. Program pages are informed by application experience, not only by reading public documentation. Where we use software to help gather or check information, a person reviews program facts before they are published, and our verification methodology governs what counts as a checkable fact.

What we refuse to publish

• Program statuses we have not confirmed against the administering organization's own material.
• Deadlines without a source, or deadlines presented as upcoming after they have passed.
• Loans described as grants, or repayable contributions described as non-repayable.
• Promises or implications of guaranteed funding approval — no consultant controls an approval decision.
• Invented statistics: approval rates, funding totals, or client results we cannot support.
• Client names, results, or project details without permission.
• Reviews or testimonials that were purchased, incentivized, or scripted.

How corrections work

When we find an error — through our own re-verification, an automated check, or a reader's report — we correct the live page and record the correction in our internal change log, including what was wrong and what evidence corrected it. Material corrections are not silently overwritten: our research registry keeps the prior claim alongside the fix, because knowing what we used to believe and why is part of not repeating the mistake.

Report an error: funding@impactapplications.ca. Reader-reported errors get the same priority as failed automated checks.

Advertising and independence

We are a consultancy: our commercial interest is that readers eventually hire us to manage funding applications. We do not accept payment from program administrators to feature programs, and a program's presence or ranking in our guides reflects our judgment of its relevance to readers, not any commercial arrangement. Where content exists to sell our services, it is written as such — pages that assess programs are held to the verification standard regardless.