Deadline: 01-Dec-2025
The North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action (NAPECA) encourages collaborative initiatives to address local environmental challenges while fostering sustainable development across Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
The focus areas of the program include implementing community-based CE initiatives or strategies that address local, specific and clearly defined environmental issues related to unsustainable use of raw materials or sources of waste or pollution; providing tangible benefits at the social, material, and/or financial level while promoting the involvement of community members and organizations from project design to implementation; proposing innovative solutions that improve local well-being and can be replicated in other regions or communities; including a clear implementation plan with measurable objectives, specific actions, project activities, beneficiaries and actors, an approximate timeframe, and a detailed budget; ensuring that organizations have the capabilities to successfully perform the project and leverage other resources to achieve greater impact, replicability, scalability, and sustainability; creating formal or informal partnerships, collaborations, or linkages among relevant key actors including
Projects funded through NAPECA are supported for a duration of 12 to 24 months, with a maximum grant of C$150,000. The program recognizes that even low-cost projects can create significant community impact and therefore does not set a minimum funding amount.
Eligible applicants include tribal nations, Indigenous Peoples and communities, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions operating in Canada, Mexico, or the United States. Examples include Indigenous governments, councils and organizations, NGOs, environmental groups, community-based associations, universities, and public or academic research institutions.
The program emphasizes cross-border cooperation, sustainable development, and the creation of innovative environmental initiatives that improve community conditions while building long-term partnerships. NAPECA encourages proposals that demonstrate strong local engagement, measurable outcomes, and the potential for broader replication and impact across the region.
For more information, visit Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
