Funding
Nation Wide Funding
A.P.E. Fund (Animals, Plants, Environment
A.P.E. Fund stands for Animals, People, and the Environment. It’s a granting program that helps fund high-needs Roots & Shoots projects across the country.
Roots & Shoots members can apply for up to $1,000 to support the implementation of their projects in their communities. A.P.E.
Indigenous Youth Roots - Land & Food Sovereignty Stream
The Land and Food Sovereignty Funding Stream aims to increase opportunities to participate in land-based programming, learn about food and medicines and engage with knowledge keepers. Projects in this stream need to be Indigenous-led and youth-focused, although community-focused and intergenerational activities can be run. The intention of launching this program in the Fall is so that the grant can support projects that cover a full growing season (from planting to harvest), and provide opportunities for multi-seasonal opportunities to engage with and on the land.
Funding of up to $20,000 will be provided to projects/groups that seek to create impactful community change and increase the wellness, resiliency and engagement of Indigenous youth.
NIB Trust Fund
NIB Trust Fund supports education programs aimed at healing, reconciliation, and knowledge building. Funds are available to First Nation and Métis individuals and organizations through a competitive application process. The goal of the NIB Trust Fund is to help First Nations and Métis people, organizations, and communities address the long-lasting impacts of the Indian residential schools system and to support education programs aimed at healing and reconciliation over many years. All NIB Trust funding is accessed through a competitive application process.
Telus - Indigenous Communities Fund
The Telus Indigenous Communities Fund offers. $5000-25,000 grants for Indigenous-led social, health, and community programs.
Downie Wenjack Fund - Oshki Wupoowane/The Blanket Fund
The Capacity Building Grant stream supports grassroots Indigenous charities, programs, communities, and initiatives (artists and makers) with the potential for significant impact. This grant stream commits to multi-year relationships which increase the capacity, networks, programs, and profile of the partners selected.
Government of Canada Funding Sources - Heritage
A variety of grants that may be able to be put toward land-based programming.
Government of Canada Funding Sources - Indigenous Peoples and Cultures
Government of Canada programs and services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis. Learn more about Indigenous Peoples and communities.
Indigenous Bursaries Search Tool
The Indigenous bursaries search tool is a searchable list of 538 bursaries, scholarships and incentives aimed at Indigenous students across Canada.
British Columbia Funding
Vancouver Foundation
Vancouver Foundation Community Grants support thousands of projects every year to help build healthy, vibrant, and livable communities across BC. The Indigenous Priorities Granting Program provides flexible grants for Indigenous-led organizations to support initiatives that encourage community inclusiveness, belonging and healing.
Habitat Conservation Trust Fund
Leadership Environmental Action Project (LEAP) grants for high school place-based learning projects that focus on monitoring, restoring or conserving BC’s biodiversity.
First Peoples' Cultural Council
First Peoples’ Cultural Council delivers grants and programs that support Indigenous arts, language and heritage in B.C.
Coast Funds
Indigenous-led endowment fund established to strengthen First Nations in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest to achieve conservation and sustainable economic development goals.
New Relationship Trust - Youth Grants
The annual intake and approval process will open each calendar year in May and close, the earlier of December or when the annual funding available has been exhausted.
See also education grants: https://newrelationshiptrust.ca/apply-for-funding/first-nation-funding-grants/education-k-12-grants/
Alberta Funding
Saskatchewan Funding
Manitoba Funding
Northern Manitoba Food, Community, and Culture Collaborative
NMFCCC supports communities in Northern Manitoba to increase access to healthy food and to improve community health and community economic development.
Northern Youth Empowerment Initiative
The Northern Youth Empowerment Initiative (NYEI) provides financial help and program support to programs or projects in northern Manitoba that are focused on youth, with a preference for those that are community based, led by youth, evidence based, and designed to impact or affect large numbers of youth.
Yukon Funding
Northwest Territories Funding
NWT On the Land Collaborative
The NWT On The Land Collaborative provides centralized access to funding and other resources for on the land programs in the Northwest Territories.
GNWT Environment and Natural Resources - Take a Family on the Land Program
The Take a Family on the Land Program is designed to offset the costs associated with on-the-land activities, so more NWT residents can experience them, as families.
GNWT Municipal and Community Affairs - Children and Youth Resiliency Program
The Department of Municipal and Community Affairs encourages and supports community groups in delivering children and youth programming that focuses on healthy childhood development, physical literacy, resiliency and mental health. The Children and Youth Resiliency Program provides funding to organizations that provide services to people under 25 years of age and children between the ages of 6-12 years of age.
GNWT Municipal and Community Affairs - NWT Youth Corps
The NWT Youth Corps Program supports programs that target non-mainstream, at-risk, and out of school NWT youth under 25 years of age.
GNWT Municipal and Community Affairs - Regional Youth Sports Events
The Regional Youth Sport Events Program provides support to sport and recreation organizations and schools to organize and host regional youth sport events.
Mackenzie Recreation Association
The MRA is pleased to provide funding for regional or community recreation events and professional development opportunities.
Arctic Funders Collaborative
The Arctic Funders Collaborative is a small network of philanthropic funders investing in the Arctic to support and contribute to the collaborative efforts needed for Arctic communities, cultures and ecosystems to thrive. The Arctic Funders Collaborative promotes more informed and effective grantmaking to support healthy Arctic communities and ecosystems. We leverage support for opportunities across the Arctic that advance land and water stewardship, capacity building for Indigenous peoples, and community and cultural well-being.
Nunavut Funding
Ontario Funding
Ontario Indigenous Youth Partnership Project
OIYPP’s goal is to create a community of celebrated Indigenous youth leading work that responds to the dynamic needs and priorities of their communities.
Quebec Funding
Local Youth Action Funding
Thanks to the Secrétariat à la jeunesse, the Local Youth Actions Funding (LYAF) is a $150,000 grant available to the 14 communities of Nunavik and Chisasibi to encourage youth to start local initiatives for their fellow youth. The LYAF supports and promotes projects targeting youth aged 15 to 35 that transfer Inuit culture, build self-esteem, develop leadership skills, enhance everyday life or share information and educational opportunities.
Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Management Board
Each year, the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board (BQCMB) channels funds to caribou-range community-based projects that ideally target school-age youth. This give kids a chance to gain new knowledge, learning from seasoned hunters, trappers and elders. The BQCMB community caribou program, started in 2007, has shifted its focus from hunting caribou to providing general “on the land” experiences. In recent years, the BQCMB has granted program funding to schools in Lutsel K’e, NWT; Black Lake, SK; Fond du Lac, SK; Hatchet Lake, SK; Tadoule Lake, MB; and Lac Brochet, MB, and Arviat, NU among others.
Eenou - Eeyou Community Foundation
The Eenou-Eeyou Community Foundation provides philanthropic support for the Crees of Eeyou Istchee, in northern Quebec. The Foundation is Cree-led, with a Board of Directors comprised of Cree government and civil society leaders, and promotes the social and cultural development priorities of the Cree nation.
New Brunswick Funding
Nova Scotia Funding
Newfoundland Funding
Government of NFLD - Indigenous Cultural Heritage Program
This program supports Indigenous projects that involve the safeguarding of traditions and culture, including language; traditional knowledge and skills; storytelling, music, games and other pastimes; knowledge of the landscape; customs, cultural practices and beliefs; food customs; and living off the land.