Committed to the conservation, enhancement and stewardship of habitat across Newfoundland and Labrador

Funding Resources​:

(listed alphabetically by name of grant)

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• Atlantic Salmon Conservation Foundation

  • ​The goal of the Foundation is to help achieve healthy and sustainable wild Atlantic salmon stocks in Atlantic Canada and Quebec through partnerships among volunteer conservation groups, Aboriginal organizations, governments and other

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• Bird Studies Canada - James L. Ballie Memorial Fund​​​

  • Granting program that includes projects by individuals and organizations that increase the understanding, appreciation and conservation of Canadian birds in their natural environment.

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• Canadian Environmental Grantmakers' Network

  • ​A national network of philanthropic foundations and other organizations that support efforts to transition to a more sustainable world
     

• Canada Post Community Project for Children​

  • In communities across the country, Canada Post employees – with the help of their customers – raise money to support local initiatives that will make a positive impact in the lives of children
     

• Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) 

  • Federal student employment funding. Applications are usually accepted in the winter

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• Catherine Donnelly Foundation​

  • ​The Foundation will consider applications that aim to catalyze a significant increase in public support for fast and deep-reaching climate change solutions​

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• Community Waste Diversion Fund

  • The Community Waste Diversion Fund provides financial support to communities across Newfoundland and Labrador that are finding exciting new ways to reduce, reuse or recycle more waste.​

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• Conservation Corps NL - Student Employment grants

  • ​Green Team - Student employment, applications due annually late January/early February.

  • Internship - cost shared employment for a post-secondary student.​​

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• Community Healthy Living Fund - Gov.nl Children, seniors and social development

  • The Community Healthy Living Fund (CHLF) is a program that supports "The Way Forward: A Vision for Sustainability and Growth in Newfoundland and Labrador" and provides a funding opportunity to communities and organization's for projects, programs and initiatives that demonstrate direct measurable results towards the targets outlined in "The Way Forward", specifically to increase physical activity and the rate of vegetable and fruit consumption.

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• Community Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador

  • CFNL pools and invests the gifts of many donors to create permanent endowment funds for communities in NL
     

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• Eco-Canada Co-op Student Program

  • The Eco-Canada Co-op Student Program works with the federal government as part of Canada’s Work Integrated Learning Strategy, to help employers and post-secondary partners kick-start student career paths across Canada.

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• Environment and Climate Change Canada: EcoCanada 

  • The EcoCanada Program, through funding from the Department of Environment and Climate Change Canada, provides funding through four wage subsidy programs to aid environmental employers in hiring skilled junior talent.

  • Training & Wage Subsidies for Environmental Jobs

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• Evergreen Community Innovation Grant

  • ​Actively engaging Canadians in creating and sustaining healthy and dynamic urban environments in our schools, public spaces, housing and transit systems, and communities at large.

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• Environment Canada: Aboriginal Fund for Species at Risk​​ (FEDERAL GOV)

  • ​The Aboriginal Fund for Species at Risk (AFSAR), established in 2004-2005, supports the development of Indigenous capacity to participate actively in the implementation of the Species at Risk Act (SARA)

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• Environment Canada: ​Canada Nature Fund Community nominated priority places for Species at Risk

  • ​Community-Nominated Priority Places (CNPP) for Species at Risk is part of Canada’s Nature Fund. CNPP will support multi-partner initiatives in priority places where there are opportunities to protect and recover species at risk and their habitat through multi-species and ecosystem-based conservation action.
     

• Environment Canada: EcoAction Community Funding Program  (FEDERAL GOV)

  • ​Protect, rehabilitate, enhance and sustain the natural environment, forms, guides, applicants and service standards.

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• Environment Canada: Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk (FEDERAL GOV)

  • ​The overall goals of the HSP are to "contribute to the recovery of endangered, threatened, and other species at risk, and to prevent other species from becoming a conservation concern, by engaging Canadians from all walks of life in conservation actions to benefit wildlife." ​

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• Echo Foundation

  • ​The Foundation's environment grants focus on Eastern Canada (Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces), with a priority given to the protection of natural areas of ecological importance.
     

• Enviro-Fest Newfoundland Power​

  • ​Community-minded groups and organizations to submit proposals for support of their efforts to develop or enhance environmentally-friendly projects. Projects must demonstrate a positive impact on our environment that benefits the entire community. 

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• Federation of Canadian Municipalities: Green Municipal Fund

  • ​Through GMF, FCM supports initiatives that demonstrate an innovative solution or approach to a municipal environmental issue, and that can generate new lessons and models for municipalities of all sizes and types in all regions of Canada.

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• Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Oceans Management Contribution Program​

  • The Government of Canada is committed to conserving 25% of Canada’s oceans by 2025, working towards 30% by 2030. We are working closely with provincial, territorial, and Indigenous governments, and consulting with marine stakeholders, to conserve and protect our oceans for generations to come, while enabling our coastal communities to thrive

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• ​Give Green Canada

  • ​A publicly accessible source of information on ecological gifts and planned gifts

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• Green Spaces United Nations student internship

  • ​UNA-Canada's initiative to bridge students to meaningful employment, broaden their environmental understanding and ignite Canada's green economy.
     

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• International Grenfell Association 

  • ​International Grenfell Association (IGA) grants are funded through monies raised since the late 1800s by supporters in Canada, the USA, Great Britain, and Ireland. Used initially to pay for programs now provided by government, these funds create a grant program that responds to the needs of coastal communities in Northern Newfoundland and Labrador.
     

• EngageNL, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador's Office of Public Engagement

  • Funding resources for community groups, including those working in the Environment

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• Imperial Oil Community Investment Program

  • ​Since the 1890s when Imperial donated to the fisherman’s mission of Newfoundland and Labrador we’ve been inspired by community-building organizations across Canada. We offer financial and volunteer support to hundreds of these organizations each year.
     

• Iron Ore Company of Canada​

  • ​Working directly with the community is an integral part of IOC’s culture. We have been partnering with the communities in Labrador West and Sept-Îles for more than five decades and we hope to be around for that many more. In 2011, IOC opened a new office in St John’s to strengthen its relations with the Newfoundland and Labrador government.
     

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• Job Creation Partnerships GovNL

  • The Job Creation Partnerships (JCP) program is designed to support community-based, not-for-profit projects. These projects will provide EI-eligible participants with opportunities to gain work experience to improve their employment prospects. Project activities should benefit both the participant and the community. The primary focus of the JCP program is helping insured participants who need work experience to increase their chances of successfully finding ongoing employment.
     

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• Low Carbon Economy Challenge 2018

  • ​The Low Carbon Economy Challenge is part of the Low Carbon Economy Fund. It will leverage Canadian ingenuity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and generate clean growth in support of Canada’s clean growth and climate action plan, the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. This is a Canadian Federal Government Fund

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• MEC Spring and Fall Granting Program

  • ​Through our grants of up to $20,000 MEC supports the community of active outdoor enthusiasts. MEC conduct two grant cycles annually.
     

• MMSB Solid Waste Management Innovation Fund​

  • ​provides financial support to innovators who are advancing sustainable waste management by finding creative ways to turn trash into treasure in Newfoundland and Labrador.
     

• McLean Foundation

  • A Canadian foundation that supports community projects including the arts, conservation, healthy, and education.​​
     

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• Nalcor Community Investment Program​

  • Giving back to communities in Newfoundland and Labrador is a priority for Nalcor Energy.​

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• Newfoundland and Labrador Environmental Industry Association (NEIA) Finance & Funding Support

  • A listing of the latest funding opportunities relating to environmental industry and municipalities looking to invest in sustainability​​

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• Project Orange Thumb​

  • ​Help your neighborhood grow with our annual community gardening grant program 

  • orangethumb@fiskars.com

  • The Teacher Grant Program is intended to recognize teachers who share a passion for fostering creativity through hands-on learning. 
     

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• Science Horizons Youth Internship Program - Government of Canada, Environment and Natural Resources 

  • ​The Science Horizons Youth Internship Program provides wage subsidies to eligible employers to hire university, college and polytechnic graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
     

• Small Change Fund

  • An award-winning crowdfunding platforms for Canadian grassroots organizations

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• Student Summer Employment Program - Department of Advanced Education and Skills​

  • Student funding for both high school and post secondary students. This funding is open to non-profits, municipalities, and school districts to help employ youth in their communities.

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• TD Bank (Friends of the Environment Foundation)​

  • ​The Foundation supports a wide range of environmental initiatives, with a primary focus on environmental education and green space programs​
     

• Tree Canada - Community Tree Grant

  • ​Tree Canada and partners offer grants and technical and logistical support encouraging the spread of 'green infrastructure' in our community

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• United Way Community Fund

  • ​United Way Newfoundland and Labrador works with dozens of individuals, workplaces and government departments to raise money each year

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• Venture for Canada Atlantic Internship

  • ​Supports paid internships for Canadian post-secondary students looking to develop entrepreneurial ​with innovative Canadian companies. Rolling deadlines.
     

• Vale: Community Investment Program

  • Community grant from a global mining company​

 

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• Wader Quest Grant Fund - Supporting Shorebird Conservation

  • ​ Investigating the status of Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable or Near-threatened wader species

  •  Attempting to further the knowledge of current Important Bird Areas (IBAs) of significant importance to waders, through breeding surveys and conducting systematic counts

  •  Investigating potential new IBAs or ornithologically little known areas for waders

  •  Conducting ecological studies of little-known wader species

  •  Educational programs, especially aimed at school children and youth to conserve and protect waders and their habitat
    Priority will be given to projects:

  •  Conducted by Nationals of the country where the activity will take place

  •  Containing an educational element, that engage with local communities and/or have an element of long-term sustainability of the project, such as training of local counterparts or raising awareness of wader conservation within the wider community

  •  Providing an improvement in the understand of the conservation needs of a under studied wader species through research
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• Wellness Coalition Grants - Newfoundland and Labrador​​

  • Grant supporting healthy living and recreation across the province. Choose your regional Wellness Coalition for more information on regional grants.​

    • Avalon East ​

    • Eastern Regional

    • Central Regional

    • Western Regional

    • Northern Regional

    • Labrador Regional
       

• Wildlife Habitat Canada

  • The WHC mandate is to support applications that:

  • are relevant under the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP);

  • positively impact regional and local habitats of other migratory game birds;

  • consider the Newfoundland and Labrador Murre Conservation Fund.
     

• World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Go Wild Community Grant

  • We are looking for the best ideas on how to connect people to nature in their community. Go Wild Community Grants support action-oriented projects and we invite you to be as creative as you wish. Every community is different, so we want to hear what you think are the best ways to make this happen where you live.

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• Young Leader Grant - Nature Canada

  • Project grant for Canadian youth under 30. This Women for Nature sponsored grant of $1,000 will support project implementation in the year 2019, to celebrate the role that nature plays in our Canadian culture and identity.
     

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