Deadline: 1-Sep-23
The Springboard Grant is a capacity building grant to support your organisational development to develop competencies, work on new strategies, or improve processes/systems, resulting in greater impact and improving your ability to achieve an environmental outcome. It is an opportunity to invest in your organisation.
Focus Areas
- The Springboard Grant reflects the refreshing of Alberta Ecotrust Foundation’s integrated program framework and responds to the urgency of both the biodiversity and climate crises as well as advancing the circular economy. It is because of these challenges that they offer funding to a variety of organizations doing this important work in Alberta.
- The Springboard Grant is intended to increase the capacity of Alberta organisations to complete good projects which contribute to the Focus Areas:
- Nature-based Solutions & Conservation
- Alberta values, develops and fully integrates Nature-based Solutions to achieve environmental, economic and social objectives. Alberta Ecotrust supports Indigenous-led efforts and implementation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs).
- Climate Resilience & Emissions Reductions
- Alberta achieves the vision of carbon neutrality and resilient communities by midcentury. Alberta Ecotrust supports projects and initiatives that have the potential to scale to achieve this vision within this timeframe.
- Circular Economy
- Alberta has a circular economy that preserves the value of energy, labour, and materials. Alberta Ecotrust supports projects and initiatives that promote durability, reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling to keep products, components, and materials circulating in the economy.
- Overarching/Foundational
- Initiatives in this Focus Area will address justice and equity, improving environmental monitoring, or explore financial aspects of Nature-based Solutions & Conservation, Climate Resilience & Emissions Reductions, and Circular Economy.
- Nature-based Solutions & Conservation
Funding Information
- In 2023, a total funding envelope of $100,000 is available.
- Applicants can request between $1,000 to $10,000 in funding.
Outcomes
- Your capacity building activity should also support the following program outcomes:
- Building cross-sectoral capacity in advocacy and leadership
- Engaging multiple, diverse partners to address intersectional issues
- Increased and equitable access to resources and skills
- Consistent support for ecosystem monitoring to increase understanding of impacts of disturbances and changes, and enabling adaptation/mitigation
- Demonstrating a logical connection between the capacity building activity and achievement of an environmental outcome within the Focus Area
Eligible Activities
- Training or technical skill development
- Support for staff resources to facilitate an environmental outcome
- Procurement of equipment to support achievement of an environmental outcome
- Networking/Partnership development
- Evaluation of environmental outcomes
- Undertakings to understand/integrate social equity, diversity, and or Indigenous voices or ways of knowing to facilitate an environmental outcome
- To be eligible for funding, your capacity building initiatives must:
- Help your organisation improve your capacity within at least one Focus Area
- Initiative start date will be the date of approval
- Initiative end date is a maximum of 12 months after the date of approval
- Must relate to environmental outcomes in Alberta
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Organisations
- Registered charities
- Nonprofit organisations
- Band Councils; Tribal Councils, Tribal Associations or Tribal Governments; and Organisations of Indigenous communities across Alberta
- Ineligible Organisations
- For-profit and private sector entities
- Municipalities, the Government of Alberta and provincial agencies
- Academia
- Individuals
- Political parties
- Note: Organisations are able to submit only one application per funding round.
For more information, visit Alberta Ecotrust.