150 Time Immemorial Grant Program

$30 million program administered by the First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation and Heritage B.C. to educate people about B.C.’s colonial past, advance reconciliation, and promote inclusivity and diversity. Indigenous communities, local governments and not-for-profit...

Vancity Community Sustainability Initiatives enviroFund

Supports initiatives that are local, encourage behaviour change, and respond to a need in your community. First Nations and Indigenous governments are eligible. Must be within Vancity’s operating area.

UBCM Regional Community to Community (C2C) Forum Program

Funding to host a C2C forum to increase understanding and relations between First Nations and local governments. Forums provide a time and place for dialogue to build on opportunities, support reconciliation efforts, resolve issues of common responsibility, interest...

Tale’awtxw Aboriginal Capital Corporation Business Equity and New Relationship Trust Programs

Funding available to develop Indigenous community and individually owned businesses. Applications accepted throughout the year.

Swift Foundation

Grants directly supporting Indigenous communities are available at different times of the year, particularly around ecosystem and environmental justice work. Applications invited quarterly.

Rural, remote and Indigenous Food Action Grants

Northern Health has collaborated with First Nations Health Authority to create the Rural, Remote, and Indigenous Food Action Grant. This grant is intended to support community food action across northern BC with the goal of improving food security within the...

Indigenous Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)

Supporting Indigenous communities and entrepreneurs to launch agriculture and food systems projects. Proposals accepted until September 30, 2022. Interested applicants should contact iafsi-isaaa@canada.ca prior to applying.

First Peoples’ Cultural Council—Indigenous Cultural Heritage Infrastructure Grant

$150,000 – $400,000 for Indigenous organizations in B.C. with a mandate or a focus that includes Indigenous cultural heritage. Fund supports projects that conserve, repair or develop Indigenous cultural heritage infrastructure.

First Peoples’ Cultural Council—Braided Knowledge

The “Braided Knowledge: Weaving Indigenous Knowledge Through Generations” grant funds projects that demonstrate and reflect the holistic and interconnected nature of Indigenous arts, language and cultural heritage, leading to outcomes that are essential to...

First Nation-Municipal Collaboration Program

Cando (the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers) and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) are partnering to offer the First Nations-Municipal Community Economic Development Initiative (CEDI). CEDI supports First Nations and adjacent...