The creation of the veterans family and well-being fund was announced as part of budget 2017. It provides $3 million annually in grants and contributions for organizations to conduct research and implement initiatives and projects that support the well-being of veterans and their families.
This fund has enabled us to have strong collaboration and support innovation. It's a strategic approach that gives us capacity to find innovative ways to enhance our support to veterans' health and well-being while preventing duplication in service and program delivery.
When we look right now, this fund is available to non-profit charities, research and educational institutions, indigenous organizations and in some cases for-profit organizations, if they meet the criteria. The program is working, and we have some really good success stories both specifically for veterans, but also for family members and caregivers.
I'll just touch quickly on one organization that has been a recipient. It is supporting women veterans, soon-to-be veterans and our spouses of veterans where they gather to prepare for the next chapter of their lives, which is leaving the military. The funding that has been provided to this organization has supported multiple workshops that have allowed these participants to map their future and how they access services and to develop a network of mentors. So it's very much a collaborative approach.
Another wonderful success story is related to veterans where they are being impacted positively in the community and supporting survivors of disasters. This organization has exceeded every target set and has gone well beyond expectations, reaching a greater number of veterans because of their ability to provide meaningful opportunities to continue to serve communities and provide high-quality training initiatives that upskill the abilities and skills of the veteran population.
Through this, this group has been able to have deployment-ready capacity to support disasters, increase the volunteer capacity, increase the number of veterans engaged, and give veterans a sense of community and purpose to give back.
I'll just touch on one final one as well. It is related to an organization that works with grief experts, veterans and their families to develop a series of online psychoeducational learning modules that are tailored to the unique grief experience of Canadian veterans, former RCMP members and their families. These modules supported through the fund assist veterans to understand and work through grief, stress, occupational stress and the support for their families with that.
We've had 43 projects that are part of the fund to date, many of them being very successful in supporting key populations such as our homeless veterans and our families and caregivers. We've recently completed a call as well for applications and we're in the process of evaluating them to support even more organizations.