Deadline: 1-Nov-21
The Columbia Basin Trust is seeking applications for the Climate Resilience Program to help communities in the Basin become more climate resilient by supporting large-scale, multi-year, shovel-ready climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience projects that help reduce the causes of climate change and to take action to manage the risks of climate change impacts.
This Program helps communities in the Basin become more climate resilient by supporting large-scale, multi-year, shovel-ready climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience projects. Through this Program, the Trust will seek input on project ideas and priorities from community groups, Indigenous Peoples, government and technical experts, and consider existing regional plans and research.
Types of Projects
The program focuses on projects that:
- implement on-the-ground actions (rather than strictly education, research or planning) to foster a climate resilient Basin;
- are grounded in both an evidence-based and community-engagement based approach;
- reflect input received and perspectives from Indigenous Peoples of the Basin, community/non-profit groups and technical experts;
- are ready or almost ready to implement (e.g., project workplans and prescriptions are complete or close to complete); and
- are seeking or have other sources of funding secured.
Funding Information
Applicants can request up to a maximum of 75 per cent of total project costs from the Trust. The maximum amount of Trust funding for any one project is $500,000 with a maximum duration of five years for multi-year projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include local governments, First Nations, and registered non-profits in the Columbia Basin Trust region.
- Businesses may be considered depending on the project and its broad community impact. Business applicants must demonstrate partnerships with community-based organizations in the design and delivery of their proposed project.
- The project should demonstrate that it will benefit the Basin communities and that the primary beneficiary is not the applicant or solely the members of a membership-based organization. Applicants operating outside the Basin must partner with community-based organizations in the Basin to be eligible and show that the Project benefits the Basin.
For more information, visit https://ourtrust.org/grants-and-programs-directory/climate-resilience-program/