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Regional Programs

This page highlights Regional Programs which are programs that only support communities in the funder’s service area.

Strategic Priorities Fund

Closing Soon

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)
  • Renewable Energy
  • Asset Management
  • Active Transportation
  • Zero Emission Vehicles and Charging Stations

Funder

Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM)

Available to all local governments outside the Metro Vancouver Regional District.

Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund (NKDF) Society: Funding Programs

Open

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)
  • Renewable Energy
  • Food Security
  • Active Transportation
  • Economic Development
  • Innovation

Funder

Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund (NKDF) Society

The investment area for NKDF is limited to those areas with evidence of impacts from Alcan’s (Rio Tinto) Nechako Reservoir and Kemano power project. We encourage applications from local governments, First Nations and legally incorporated non-profit organizations serving the following communities and nearby rural areas:
  • Kitamaat Village
  • Southside
  • Nee Tahi Buhn Band
  • Cheslatta Carrier Nation
  • Skin Tyee Band
  • Village of Burns Lake
  • Ts’il Kaz Koh
  • Lake Babine Nation (Woyenne)
  • Stellat’en First Nation
  • Village of Fraser Lake
  • Nadleh Whut’en Band
  • Fort Fraser
  • District of Vanderhoof
  • Saik’uz First Nation 
(See the Map)

Community Resiliency Investment Program: Columbia Basin Wildfire Resiliency Initiative

Open

  • Environmental Stewardship
  • Emergency Mitigation / Preparedness / Planning

Funder

Columbia Basin Trust

  • First Nations communities
  • Local governments (municipalities or regional districts)

 

Applicants must be located in Columbia Basin Trust’s region. Applicants operating outside of the Basin must partner with eligible applicants in the Basin and demonstrate that proposed projects reduce wildfire risk to communities in the Basin. The project must demonstrate that it will directly benefit the Basin or a Basin community, and that the primary beneficiary is neither the applicant nor solely the members of a membership-based organization.
(See the Map)

Community Energy Diesel Reduction (CEDR): Stream 1 Community Energy Planning (CEP)

Open

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)
  • Renewable Energy

Funder

New Relationship Trust (NRT)

Only remote communities with diesel generating stations are eligible for funding. 

Community Energy Diesel Reduction (CEDR): Stream 2 Demand Side Management (DSM)

Open

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)

Funder

New Relationship Trust (NRT)

Only remote communities with diesel generating stations are eligible for funding. 

Community Places

Open

  • Economic Development

Funder

Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT)

 
All applicants must be located within Northern Development’s service region.

  • Local Governments

  • Registered First Nations Bands 
(See the Map)

Cultural Infrastructure

Open

  • Economic Development

Funder

Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT)

All applicants must be located within Northern Development’s service region.
  • Local Governments
  • Registered First Nations Bands
  • Wholly Owned First Nation Development Corporations 
(See the Map)

Economic Infrastructure

Open

  • Economic Development

Funder

Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT)

All applicants must be located within Northern Development’s service region.
  • Local Governments
  • Registered First Nations Bands
  • Wholly Owned First Nation Development Corporations 
(See the Map)

Main Street Revitalization Planning Program

Open

  • Economic Development

Funder

Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT)

  • Local Governments 
(See the Map)

Marketing Initiatives Program

Open

  • Economic Development

Funder

Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT)

All applicants must be located within Northern Development’s service region.

  • Local Governments

  • Registered First Nations Bands 
(See the Map)

Recreation Infrastructure Program

Open

  • Economic Development

Funder

Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT)

All applicants must be located within Northern Development’s service region.

  • Local Governments

  • Registered First Nations Bands

  • Wholly owned First Nation development corporations 
(See the Map)

Capital and Innovation Program

Open

  • Renewable Energy
  • Food Security
  • Environmental Stewardship
  • Economic Development
  • Innovation
  • Natural Asset Inventories and Management

Funder

Island Coastal Economic Trust (ICET)

Local and Regional Governments
Indigenous Communities
Non-profit Societies
Community Contribution Companies (C3)
Other non-profit organizations involved in economic development such as airport authorities, harbour authorities, industry associations, sectoral organizations or educational institutions 
(See the Map)

First Nations Housing Sustainability Initiative

Open

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)
  • Renewable Energy

Funder

Columbia Basin Trust

First Nations in the Columbia Basin Trust Region 
(See the Map)

Investment Readiness Program

Open

  • Renewable Energy
  • Food Security
  • Economic Development
  • Innovation

Funder

Island Coastal Economic Trust (ICET)

  • Local and Regional Governments

  • Indigenous Communities

  • Non-profit Societies

  • Industry Associations and Sectoral Organizations 
(See the Map)

Major Contributions Grant

Open

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)
  • Renewable Energy

Funder

Gwaii Trust Society

Local non-profit organizations – Local governments

Metro Vancouver Regional Fund

Open

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)
  • Renewable Energy
  • Active Transportation
  • Zero Emission Vehicles and Charging Stations

Funder

Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM)

Local governments in the Metro Vancouver Regional District. The MVRF provides funding for regional transportation investments within the Greater Vancouver Regional District and its member municipalities. 
(See the Map)

Partners in Indigenous Energy Efficiency & Resilience (PIEER)

Open

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)
  • Asset Management

Funder

BC Hydro

All Indigenous governing bodies connected to the integrated (i.e., grid connected) electricity system and/or natural gas infrastructure (BC Hydro, FortisBC or Pacific Northern Gas accounts) are eligible to participate.

Small-scale Ecosystem Grants

Open

  • Environmental Stewardship
  • Innovation
  • Natural Asset Inventories and Management

Funder

Columbia Basin Trust

Eligible applicants include local governments and First Nations in the Columbia Basin Trust region.
(See the Map)

Social Housing Energy Savings Program

Open

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)

Funder

BC Hydro

Who is eligible:

  • Provincial/Local government housing authority, or charity organizations that operates social housing buildings
  • Governing body of an Indigenous Community provided the housing is primarily for low-income households.

For complete eligibility, go to the program website.
(See the Map)

Vancity Non-Profit Housing Retrofit Program

Open

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)
  • Renewable Energy
  • Asset Management
  • Waste Reduction and Circular Economy

Funder

Vancity

You are eligible to participate in the program if your organization is:
  • A non-profit housing society or a non-profit housing co-operative
  • An active Vancity member in good standing

Community Energy Diesel Reduction (CEDR): Stream 3 Renewable Energy Generation (REG)

Closed

  • Renewable Energy

Funder

New Relationship Trust (NRT)

Only remote communities with diesel generating stations are eligible for funding. 

Grant Writing Support

Closed

  • Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings)
  • Renewable Energy

Funder

Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT)

  • Local governments

  • Registered First Nations bands 
(See the Map)

Pacific Salmon Commission Endowment Funds: Northern Fund

Closed

  • Environmental Stewardship
  • Monitoring
  • Innovation
  • Natural Asset Inventories and Management

Funder

Pacific Salmon Commission

Private (businesses / for-profit), non-governmental organizations / non-profit, educational institutions, Indigenous groups, and all levels of government can apply.

Pacific Salmon Commission Endowment Funds: Southern Fund

Closed

  • Food Security
  • Environmental Stewardship
  • Monitoring
  • Innovation
  • Natural Asset Inventories and Management

Funder

Pacific Salmon Commission

Private (businesses / for-profit), non-governmental organizations / non-profit, educational institutions, Indigenous groups, and all levels of government can apply.