Arts Infrastructure Program. Closes March 19, 2025. This program supports B.C. First Nations-led non-profit arts and culture organizations and societies with art spaces construction or renovations, artistic production projects, administrative capacity building and operational support. There are three areas of funding to choose from: Organizations (up to $50,000), Community Art Spaces (up to $75,000) and Arts Administrative Internships (Up to $40,000).

Arts Strengthening Program. Closes March 19, 2025. This program supports arts revitalization opportunities for B.C. First Nations creatives to pursue either a one-on-one arts mentorships or arts group knowledge transfer. Projects in this program focus on the transfer of essential artistic and cultural knowledge to new generations of B.C First Nations artists to support the strengthening and continuation of significant cultural practices. FPCC strongly encourages collaboration. If applying as an organization for group knowledge transfer, only one program per Band Office, Tribal Council or Society/Organization will be eligible for funding. You can choose one of two areas to apply for: One-on-one Arts Mentorships (Up to $30,000) or Arts Group Knowledge Transfer (Up to $50,000).

Individual Artists Program. Closes March 19, 2025. This program supports the artistic development of B.C. First Nations creators residing in B.C. The program supports creative practices of any medium or expression and those who have demonstrated a commitment to their artistic practice. This may include carvers, storytellers, visual artists, choreographers, dancers, dance groups, performance artists, regalia creatives, weavers, writers, multi-media artists and sculptors. Funding supports artists to further develop their creative practice, present their work in community and explore new approaches and techniques. This program also includes scholarships for applicants pursuing a post-secondary education in the arts. The Individual Artists Program offers two funding options: Individual Artists (up to $20,000) and Scholarships (up to $15,000).

Braided Knowledge Grant. Closes March 25, 2025. This grant supports B.C. First Nation community projects that weave together their arts, languages, and heritage. With an emphasis on mentoring and apprenticeship, this grant helps ensure the protection, transmission, and intergenerational knowledge transfer of B.C. First Nations’ languages, arts, and heritage. Grants from $10,000 to $25,000 are available. An information session will be held on February 27, 2025.

HCTF fund a variety of conservation work.  Application deadlines for the following grants: February 28h, 2025 @ 4pm PST

• Action Grants (formerly Stewardship Grants).  Eligibility:  Any individual, group or agency that has a good idea to help fish, wildlife or habitat in British Columbia.Projects that directly involve people and communities to change behaviours and or practices leading to positive and measurable conservation outcomes. Projects should work to create solutions or sustainable practices, or mitigate human-caused impacts to prevent or reduce impacts to a species or ecosystems.

• Capacity Grants  Eligibility: Applications must be made by an individual with the lead organization.  Type of Activities Funded: Projects that advance conservation or restoration planning, engage organizational and community capacity, develop skills and abilities to initiate actions to benefit of fish, wildlife, and habitat conservation.

• Community Grants (formerly PCAF)  Eligibility: Individuals and organizations trying to implement on-the-ground, community-based conservation projects, and public awareness initiatives.

Type of Activities Funded: Projects that maintain, conserve or restore indigenous fish and wildlife species and their habitat. Projects must have 50% volunteer component.

The ATF is accepting applications through the Applicant Portal until February 26th, 2025. The current intake applies to Capital Projects. Future intakes under the Active Transportation Planning stream may

be announced at a later date. Project construction must be completed by March 31, 2030.

Available Funding: · Max funding amount: $50 Million.  Multiple projects can be submitted by a single organization and can be prioritized.  Grant will fund up to 60% of eligible costs.  Project funding can be stacked (applicants can seek funding through multiple streams)  · Minimum 10% of total funds is allocated for indigenous recipients.

Applicable Projects Funding is available for active transportation capital projects including but not limited to: pathways, bike lanes, multi-use trails, widened sidewalks. 

• Capital Projects: OPEN

  • Build new, or enhance existing, active transportation infrastructure.

• Enhancements can include lighting, greenery, shade, benches, safety features etc.

• Planning Projects: CLOSED - Future intakes under this stream may be announced at a later date

• Feasibility studies, business cases, policy development, data collection, AT

• Education, cost estimates

Applications accepted from January 13, 2025 to February 28, 2025

The Local Food Infrastructure Fund (LFIF) supports projects that strengthen community food security and increase availability of local, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food through food production-focused activities for equity-deserving groups, particularly Indigenous and Black communities.  

• Provides non-repayable contribution funding between $150,000 and $500,000

• Projects must include a production element and partnerships (min of 2) to enhance community food security.

The Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund is currently accepting applications under the Direct delivery stream.  Eligible applicants seeking support for pressing drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and solid-waste infrastructure needs can apply until March 31, 2025, 15:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).  In recognition of the unique infrastructure and housing needs and realities in Indigenous communities, Indigenous Applicants will have until May 19th, 2025, 15:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) to submit their applications.  Note: CHIF uses a continuous intake, whereby project applications may be submitted at anytime while the intake remains open. Project applications received before the final closing date may be reviewed and approved during the application intake period, so interested parties are encouraged to apply early.

Minimum funding amount: $1 Million, max funding among $100 Million  A minimum of 10% of the CHIF direct delivery funding is reserved for Indigenous projects.  Indigenous recipients: 100%.  Eligible costs are those incurred after project approval, and before Sept. 30, 2031.

ELIGIBLE PROJECTS

Eligible projects under CHIF are tied to enabling increased housing supply and must support increased

capacity of municipal infrastructure. Eligible projects include:

• Capital infrastructure projects (new construction, rehabilitation, or expansion)

• Drinking water systems enabling community growth

• Wastewater systems enabling community growth

• Stormwater systems extending capacity to accommodate community growth

• Solid waste management systems

• Planning projects (studies, plans, or design work to support a future capital project that meets the above eligibility criteria)

Intake 3 opening May 1, 2025 until December 1, 2025 (or when funding is exhausted).  This grant provides non-repayable funding contributions to First Nation communities, Indigenous organizations, businesses, and entrepreneurs in British Columbia that want to participate in and receive financial supports to develop, expand, or strengthen their Indigenous food systems and innovation to enhance sustainability and growth of the Indigenous agriculture and food sovereignty.​

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STREAM 1 – Funding caps: $150,000 for Community businesses including Indigenous Farms: $100,000 for Entrepreneurs:  provides funding for activities and costs associated with the business development, planning and design phase of a food security project.

Eligible expenses include (not an all-inclusive list) feasibility studies and assessments, business planning, business coaching/mentorship, permaculture design, food production strategies, site analysis, community engagement, agriculture & food training etc.

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STREAM 2 – Funding caps: $250,000 for Community businesses including Indigenous Farms: $150,000 for Entrepreneurs: provides funding for activities and costs associated with the implementation of a food security project.

Eligible expenses include (not an all-inclusive list) start-up costs, capital contribution for construction, retrofits, equipment, community greenhouses, processing technologies, food cold storage, smoker/dehydration, freeze drying technologies, water infrastructure solutions, marketing, composting solutions, and other acquisitions to support the project and skills, training and capacity development directly related to food security project launch etc.

Eligible Applicants: Local Governments, Indigenous Communities, Métis Nations, Modern Treaty Nations

Program Category: Built Environment, Community Infrastructure

Under Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities Canada

Deadline Details Eligible applicants can apply until March 31, 2025, 15:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Indigenous Applicants will have until May 19th, 2025, 15:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) to submit their applications. 

CHIF uses a continuous intake, whereby project applications may be submitted at anytime while the intake remains open. Project applications received before the final closing date may be reviewed and approved during the application intake period, so interested parties are encouraged to apply early.

For a project to be eligible, applicants must demonstrate in their application that there is a housing need, or that growth is expected in the community where the project will take place. Eligible projects must also support increased capacity of municipal infrastructure related to drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, or solid waste management, as outlined below. Both capital and planning projects are eligible under CHIF. 

Description:

Capital infrastructure projects include new construction, rehabilitation or expansion projects that result in tangible infrastructure, including hybrid and natural infrastructure, for the following systems:

• Drinking water systems, including drinking water treatment facilities, storage assets, pump stations, local and transmission pipes, and natural infrastructure;

• Wastewater systems, including wastewater storage and treatment facilities, lagoon systems, pump/lift stations, sanitary force mains and sewer pipes, combined sewer pipes and natural infrastructure;

• Stormwater systems, including stormwater drainage pump stations, management facilities, pipes and natural infrastructure;

• Solid waste management systems, including landfills, organic waste processing, waste sorting, and thermal treatment.

Planning projects primarily consist of studies, plans or design work. For a planning project to be eligible for funding, it must support a future capital project that would be considered eligible under CHIF and align with its objectives.

Movable Cultural Property Grants. (Federal Government). No Deadline. Movable Cultural Property Grants help designated organizations acquire cultural property of outstanding significance and national importance to Canada, as outlined in the Cultural Property Export and Import Act. Designated organizations are located in Canada and demonstrate the ability to ensure the long-term preservation of cultural property. Grants can be used to purchase cultural property: for which an export permit has been denied; or that is important to Canada’s national heritage and available for purchase outside the country.

National Creation Fund. No Deadline. The National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund invests up to $3 million a year in the development of 15 to 20 compelling and ambitious new Canadian works in theatre, dance, music and inter-disciplinary performing arts. Fuelled entirely by donors, the Fund provides Canadian artists with the additional time, space and resources they need to create great work. The Fund invests in both new work, and in promising productions that need additional development after their initial run to produce stronger, more polished work that will be remounted and toured across Canada and around the world.

Canada Cultural Spaces Fund. (Federal Government). No deadline- on-going. The Canada Cultural Spaces Fund (CCSF) supports the improvement of physical conditions for arts, heritage, culture and creative innovation. The Fund supports renovation and construction projects, the acquisition of specialized equipment and feasibility studies related to cultural spaces. The CCSF annual grants and contributions budget is $54 million for the period 2018-2028.

Legacy Fund- Building Communities through Arts and Heritage. (Federal Government). Applications accepted on continuous basis. This Department of Canadian Heritage Program provides funding for community-initiated capital projects, intended for community use. Recipients may receive up to 50 per cent of eligible project expenses up to a maximum of $500,000. unding supports community-initiated capital projects that: commemorate a significant local historical event or pay tribute to a significant local historical personality; mark a 100th anniversary or greater, in increments of 25 years (e.g., 125th, 150th); involve the restoration, renovation, or transformation of existing buildings or exterior spaces with local community significance that are intended for community use; encourage arts and heritage activities in the local community that are intended for and accessible to the general public.

Urban Communities Partnering for Reconciliation. Funding permitting, eligible applicants may submit one application between September 1, 2024 and August 31, 2025. This program was created as a multipartner, community-driven approach focused on improving the socio-economic outcomes for urban Indigenous communities in BC, including Inuit, First Nations and Métis populations. Funding is available to support eligible Indigenous organizations and local governments to work together to create opportunities for in-person dialogue and relationship building which can help advance collaborative reconciliation plans, protocols, agreements or future projects.

The Music Industry Initiatives Program. Closes March 1, 2025. This program supports initiatives that grow and develop British Columbia’s music ecosystem. Successful projects will build the capacity of B.C.’s music industry through training, knowledge transfer, and the creation of new business opportunities. Canadian companies, not-for-profit organizations, individuals, and collectives are able to apply. $2,000 - $60,000, funding up to 75% of project expenses. The remaining 25% may be in-kind contributions, investment, earned revenue, and/or other public funding.

BC Indigenous Food Pathways Program provides strategic capacity-building funding. Funding can be used to create new projects, enhance existing programs, or improve group operations for Indigenous-led food systems and food security initiatives that act as disruptors to known systemic barriers. Projects funded are intended to act as catalysts to generate positive change that supports Indigenous peoples’ self-determination over their food systems, and their participation in the food and agriculture sectors. These projects will create shared benefits that support the self-determined priorities of Indigenous peoples and more equitable, decolonized food systems.

Funding information

• Supports eligible expenses up to $200,000

• Maximum amount approved will depend on project demand and impact

• Approved activities must be completed within 13 months of approval

• Minimum project amount is $50,000

• Maximum of fifteen (15) percent of the budget may go towards capital expenses

• Ten (10) percent of the budget can be allocated towards administrative costs

Program staff will work on project deliverables and disbursement timelines based on the needs of the project for successful completion.  Please email IndigenousFoodSystems@gov.bc.ca to discuss project alignment first.

Community Investment Priorities t drive more equitable opportunities for prosperity, we intend to support projects that:

Create stability by addressing food security, housing stability, and access to health service. For example, ideas that:

•  Improve access to healthy and affordable food for the long-term to alleviate pressure on short-term emergency supports

• Improve access to housing situations that are safe, secure, and/or affordable

• o Enable more equitable health outcomes by removing barriers to relevant health supports and services

An additional $300 million is available until 2027 for your clean energy projects. These projects can help advance Indigenous-led climate action, support local economic development and create skilled jobs while reducing pollution and improving air quality.

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There is no deadline to apply. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.

The Indigenous Youth Internship Program (IYIP) provides a 1-year paid internship for up to 25 young Indigenous British Columbians, ages 19 to 29. The program encourages Indigenous youth to consider the BC Public Service and First Nations / Indigenous organizations as a place to pursue a rewarding career. The program helps to support Indigenous youth to develop their leadership skills through work placements. Interns are initially placed with a BC Government ministry for the first 9 months. Following that, the intern is placed with an Indigenous organization for three months (salary still paid by BC Government). For more information on the program, including applying as a Intern or as a First Nation tohost an Intern, visit Indigenous Youth Internship Program - Province of British Columbia.