The final intake for small scale projects is from August 25,2025 to September 19, 2025.  The project is to be completed by March 31, 2027.

LFIF supports projects that strengthen community food security and increase the availability and accessibility of local, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food through food production-focused activities. 

The LFIF aims to support locally-driven projects that will help improve community food security through the purchase and installation of infrastructure/equipment that will increase access to local, nutritious and culturally appropriate food.

New webinars have been added to the Tutorials and Webinars section of the website along with an invitation to join our upcoming live Q&A session August 26, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM  PDT  - Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

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Deadline is October 31, 2025. 

Communities can receive funding through four streams:

• Capacity – helps communities build internal capacity for economic development by providing up to $50,000 per year for up to three years and access to development funding of up to $100,000 to launch priority projects; 

• Development – supports business planning, feasibility assessments and other developmental steps for business and economic diversification opportunities in rural B.C., up to $100,000;

• Implementation - supports the development of new economic infrastructure and the implementation of economic services, programming or operations directly related to diversification in rural communities, up to $1 million; and

• Community Transition – supports communities experiencing a major economic change resulting from the loss of a major employer or linked to major projects in the province.

Up to $5,000 in funding for B.C. businesses exporting to the U.S.

Supports B.C. based small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s) impacted by US tariffs by facilitating access to the technical experts and advisory services they need to become CUSMA compliant. Eligible service providers include customs brokers, trade consultants, trade lawyers, and compliance specialists based in Canada or the United States.

Follow up with brady@exportnavigator.ca to learn more if you are in a community north of the Malahat or on a rural island. For the urban areas within the CRD please reach out to Jason Seed jason@exportnavigator.ca .

CWRG will be opening the 3rd intake on September 1, 2025. It provides flexible and timely responses to urgent labor market needs faced by communities in B.C. Communities can access the program to address workforce challenges due to changing local economic conditions, emerging priorities or unexpected natural disasters.

For full program details and requirements, please refer to the CWRG Program Guide

Deadline is December 31, 2027.

The Climate Agri-Solutions Fund helps farmers implement these practices through cost-shared funding up to $100,000. The program also supports outreach, education and training to give farmers the opportunity to learn how these practices can effectively store carbon and reduce greenhouse gases on their farms. See the website for information on different streams available. 

Deadline is Sept 5, 2025. The Regional Community to Community (C2C) program continues to fund C2C forums and events. In addition, the program supports the advancement of First Nation/local government reconciliation and relationship building through the development of agreements (such as protocols, MOUs, and service agreements), joint plans and/or strategies and the joint review of bylaws and/or policies in order to develop recommendations for amendments or new bylaws and/or policies.

Deadline is ongoing. Youth in Heritage is a flexible Wage Subsidy program providing 50% up to $3,200 in wage subsidies for youth employees. You can apply at any time; our applications close once all grants have been allocated. We support both youth who are already employed and provide funding for jobs still accepting applications to help meet employers where they are at.

Deadline is ongoing. Provides up to $20,000 and 75% of wage subsidies for youth employees. The program supports youth (15-30) in gaining experience in the natural resources sector.

Deadline is ongoing. Funds co-op placements for students in STEAM and business fields by providing 50-70% wage coverage.

Deadline is ongoing. This program supports post-secondary grads in gaining environmental sector experience with up to 80% wage coverage, up to $25,000.

Deadline is ongoing. The Digital Skills for Youth program provides training for young professionals with post-secondary education who want to gain experience or join the environmental digital skills sector. Receive 80% up to $18,000 in funding towards a participant’s salary.

The new campaign, titled Summer Plans, includes digital guides, infographics, informational videos, checklists, and other tools to help reduce the risk of wildfire damage.

Ends December 5, 2025 (or when funds are exhausted). This program provides multi-year funding to BC First Nations and Tribal Councils, supporting self-determined priorities that enhance governance structures, institutional capacity, and community resilience, advancing self-determination and sovereignty. 1-year grant of up to $60,000, or 2-year grant of up to $120,000. One project per Nation or Tribal Council per year (including organizations under the Nation or Tribal Council authority).

Opens July 2025. This program offers 3 funding streams to acknowledge and respect that First Nations have varying levels of structures, capacity, experience and pathways to supporting their Guardians program within their own context and vision. Stream 1: Planning and Capacity for New and Emerging Guardians Programs (up to $50,000). Stream 2: Individual First Nation Community Training for Emerging and Established Guardians and Stewardship Program within one community (Up to $150,000). Stream 3: Regional First Nation Community Training for Emerging and Established Guardians and Stewardship Program for multiple communities (Up to $300,000).

Creating, Knowing, Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. See Grants and Deadlines: https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/grants/deadlines

Accepting applications on an ongoing basis. This program supports projects that: attract investment and talent, increase productivity and economic growth, grow new, existing and transitioning sectors, increase the economic participation of British Columbians and respond to changing economic circumstances. Funding varies by project. Typically up to 50% of eligible project costs; in exceptional circumstances, PacifiCan may fund a higher proportion of a project’s costs.

The Residential School Day Scholars Class Action Settlement is for Day Scholars who attended an Indian Residential School but did not sleep there at night between the years of 1920-1974 (depending on the school). The fund will grant up to $10,000 to Indigenous Individuals who aim to revitalize their languages and cultures; to promote their heritage and commemoration; to promote their healing and wellness journeys and education and training goals. There are [up to] three granting announcements each year.

Applications accepted year-round. Support initiatives that help emerging artists by bridging the gap from academic to professional career.

 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.

No Deadline. 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.

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.

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.

This fund facilitates the return or long-term loan of culturally significant materials to Indigenous cultural entities worldwide. The application form is for use by Indigenous communities seeking support. Eligible expenses include insurance, packaging, shipping, and other costs associated with the return. You may request funding for the return of multiple items from the same institution. The Going Home Fund Advisory Council meets on or around the 15th day of each month to review requests and make awards.

Each fiscal year, the Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages will invest in a limited number of innovation projects, subject to available budget. These projects will create something new in the Indigenous languages space, and/or significantly improve upon initiatives that already exist, in order to effect real change. As stated in the Commission’s mandate, these innovative projects must be specific to Indigenous languages education and revitalization. There are no deadlines for submission, and the Commission invites project submissions on an ongoing basis. Please note that, as outlined in the Indigenous Languages Act, the Commission is not a funding agency, and is not able to fund Indigenous language programming nor the infrastructure, or capital/operational costs of running an Indigenous language program.

Program Category: Climate Adaptation, Built Environment, Climate Mitigation, Community Infrastructure

Program Sub-Category: Energy Efficiency (Housing / Buildings), Food Security, Risk Assessments, Environmental Stewardship, Monitoring, Innovation, Emergency Mitigation / Preparedness / Planning, Natural Asset Inventories and Management

Implementation project funding is available in two calls: call #1 July 8 - August 19, 2025; call #2 August 20 - October 9, 2025.

Supports First Nations communities in reducing climate change impacts on health. Through this program, communities can strengthen their climate health resilience by working together to improve the environmental, social, cultural and economic factors that affect their health and wellness. ICHAP funds climate action projects that are community driven and focus on health and wellness outcomes. Projects can focus on climate health in general or on developing a strategy or action plan to reduce climate change impacts on community health. 

The Partners in Indigenous Energy Efficiency & Resilience (PIEER) program offers support to Indigenous governing bodies (IGBs) that are coordinating home energy upgrades in multiple homes for their community members. The program includes incentive funding for a comprehensive suite of energy efficiency retrofit measures as well as funding for enabling measures to increase the value and reach of the incentive funding. 

Continuous Funding Intake. Regional and community-based infrastructure that supports sustainable economic diversification and growth that strengthens wellbeing in coastal communities. Through the Capital and Innovation Program, we can invest up to $200,000 into public and community-owned capital projects and knowledge infrastructure.

Continuous Funding Intake. Investment Readiness Program, we invest up to $30,000 across four funding streams: project development, sector development, economic development strategies, and regional collaboration.

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.

Community Investment Priorities to 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

• 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.

Economic Development Funding and Grants: The Provincial Grants Page incorporates all Economic Development related funding for Governments & Businesses.

BC Community Climate Funding Guide for Indigenous communities & local governments: The CleanBC page incorporates Clean Energy related funding for Governments.

B.C.’s response to unjustified U.S. tariffs: Up to date information on the Province of BC’s ongoing response to US tariffs. 

Buy BC Website: Buy BC helps consumers choose local and promotes B.C. food and beverage products are celebrated for their diversity, freshness and quality. Buy BC helps people choose local items to support B.C.’s agriculture industry.

Trade and Invest British Columbia: Programs, Services and Supports for BC Businesses. 

Business Benefits Finder, Innovation Canada: Find the latest information about U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, including relief measures and support available to Canadian businesses.

Island Coastal Economic Trust Funding Information