The Ontario Greenbelt Fondation wants to see your best shots of the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Winning submission:
Contest Dates: July 14, 2021 – August 15, 2021, 11:59 PM.
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Funding for seniors and youth programming, and programming in Scugog/Ajax now available
The Durham Community Foundation opened calls for applications on July 5, and is accepting proposals until August 6, 2021.
This year a total of $93,250 is available to community groups, earmarked into the following categories:
Funding for seniors programming in Durham Region is $33,000;
programs without specific restrictions in Durham Region have access to $18,275
Funding for programs in Ajax is $16,000;
Funding for programs in Scugog is $15,100
Funding for youth programming in Durham Region is $10,875.
“Funding is made possible by the permanent endowment funds established by many families throughout our region who love our community. The grant applications are reviewed by an independent committee of professionals who live and work in the Region of Durham.”
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The Durham Community Foundation
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Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Climate Action and Awareness Fund (CAAF) has opened a request for proposals (RFP) for Advancing Climate Change Science and Technology Research.
The RFP funds up to $59 million for projects that will strengthen Canada’s science capacity to understand, identify, accelerate, and evaluate actions towards achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
NOTE Projects may recieve up to $6 million per project for a total of up to $59 million to eligible organizations over a maximum of five years.
The CAAF will invest $206 million over five years to support Canadian-made projects that help to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. It’s designed to support projects that create middle-class jobs for Canadians who work in science and technology, academia and at the grassroots community level.
The Climate Action and Awareness Fund has three main priorities:
This RFP seeks projects advancing climate change science and technology in Canada, to support projects that strengthen Canada’s science capacity to understand, identify, accelerate, and evaluate mitigation actions that work towards achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.
Climate change science and technology projects may include activities related to monitoring, data collection, model development, application of novel technologies, and/or knowledge synthesis aimed at enhancing understanding at the national, provincial, regional, or local level, including Indigenous communities.
The two-step application process consists of:
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Eligible applicants are:
The projects funded by this request for proposals must fall under one of the following themes:
Proposals should advance the quantification of, and reduce uncertainties in, our understanding of Canada’s carbon sinks to inform opportunities to employ Nature-Based Solutions to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. The results should inform the development of integrated estimates of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from Canadian ecosystems, our understanding of how direct land management actions impact ecosystem carbon cycles, or our understanding of the potential role of carbon sinks in Canada’s greenhouse gas mitigation strategy. Also of interest are proposals that will inform Canada’s reporting on efforts to enhance natural carbon sinks, including the quantification of those actions, and will improve reliability and consistency in reporting methodologies for managed and unmanaged lands, wetland restoration, forestry and agricultural practices. Additionally, proposals could also address direct and/or indirect impacts on climate, air quality, ecosystem function, and biodiversity.
Proposals should advance our understanding of the extent to which technologies to remove carbon from the atmosphere — such as Direct Air Capture and Carbon Capture and Sequestration — may contribute to the net-zero goal. Proposals could explore the efficacy of different technologies and practices (including the development and testing of measurement tools), their economic viability, the risks associated with their use, and optimal policies for scaling up these technologies/practices (e.g., carbon price, tax credits). Also of interest are proposals that advance our understanding of potential environmental trade-offs and ecological or atmospheric parameters for validating large-scale quantitative assessments of emissions and removals resulting from intentional enhancement.
Proposals should contribute to improving the quantification of GHG emissions and short-lived climate forcers at the city and municipal level, and enable the application of methods to identify mitigation opportunities and evaluate their effectiveness to augment national reporting processes (e.g., advancing the use of top-down atmospheric observations or bottom-up inventory-based approaches). Proposals could advance work related to atmospheric monitoring and modelling aimed at identifying emission reduction opportunities by source type and tracking changes in emissions (i.e., top-down approaches), as well as work to evaluate these top-down estimates against bottom-up emissions estimates. Proposals could also explore methodologies and protocols for using in-situ low-cost medium-precision GHG sensor technology to inform mitigation actions and evaluate effectiveness in a way that enables consistent application across Canada and aligns with international approaches.
Proposals should improve understanding of how greenhouse gas and air pollutant mitigation strategies impact both climate and air quality, recognizing that climate forcers and air pollutants frequently share common sources and climate forcers are often air pollutants themselves. This could include work to develop and apply new joint climate and air quality models and analysis frameworks to evaluate emission pathways for achieving net-zero GHG emissions and air quality objectives. Proposals aimed at quantifying the potential multiple benefits (e.g., reduced impact on human health and sensitive ecosystems) would also be valuable. This could include multidisciplinary studies across climate, air quality, health, and agriculture to understand the integrated impact of GHG and air pollutant mitigation.
Proposals should improve the characterization of travel behaviour in Canada (e.g., on-road public and private, including cars, trucks, buses, etc.) and inform improved inventory reporting and targeted policies to reduce GHG and air pollutant emissions, leveraging big data analytics, telematics, and other techniques. While there is high confidence in total transport emissions and some of the key drivers (e.g., total fuel consumption) and correlated variables (e.g., total number of vehicles), proposals are sought to address critical knowledge gaps in the more refined and geospatially resolved understanding of transportation emissions, such as use patterns of where, when, and what types of vehicles are driven over what distances or modal preferences. Proposals could also examine how travel patterns respond to significant changes, such as pandemics, socio-economic shocks, or extreme events, to quantify changes in travel patterns over time and modal shifts.
This request for proposals will provide up to $6 million per project for a total of up to $59 million to eligible organizations over a maximum of five years.
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Central Counties Tourism modified its industry partner program to address these concerns regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, to support organizations working at keeping their guests, and potential guests, engaged as the region slowly reopens.
Central Counties Tourism supports and promotes tourism providers in Durham Region, York Region and Headwaters Tourism Region, with four target areas:
1 Capacity Building, helping the tourism industry to: attract and retain guests; be better prepared for tourism; leverage investments to bring in the group-tour market; offset the costs of tourism workshops and meetings in preparation for tourism readiness.
2 Product/Experience Development, including research (like finding the stories, curating them and delivering them to the public via podcast, brochure, etc.), hard costs associated with building new tourism products/experiences (except capital expenditures), like signage, exhibitions, maps, podcasts, apps, etc.; festival development – both new festivals and festival improvements, which can include operation items like staging, talent, fencing, etc.; operating costs to implement new elements to increase attendance, like security, ticketing, gates, signs, etc.
3 Communications/Marketing, including familiarization tours, festival promotion, media, advertising, co-ops, wayfinding.
NOTE If your project isn’t repesented in the above criteria, it may still be eligible for partnership with the CCDT. Contact ForthWrite Canada by clicking here and we can begin the discussion.
March 15, 2021 for projects beginning April 1 – May 31
May 15, 2021 for projects beginning June 1 – July 31
July 15, 2021 for projects beginning August 1 – September 30
Sept 15, 2021 for projects beginning October 1 – December 31
December 15, 2021 for projects beginning January 1 – March 31, 2022
Not a grant, the partnership with CCT offers up to 40 per cent of project cost. Conditions require that an organization’s portion of the money be spent before the CCT contributes their portion. Subsequently, be prepared to show proof of payment for your portion of your budget to the CCT before accessing their portion of the partnership funds.
Once a partner submits proof (bank statements, cashed cheques, paid credit card statements) of invoice payments, they can submit for unpaid invoices to CCT, who will pay them directly to the vendor.
Central Counties will help your project by offering their network of contacts, and ability to share success stories through their communications across the region.
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Step 1 – Review
Look at your proposed project through a tourism lens. Is your project going to help you drive and retain visitors from outside of your area? Is there opportunity for them to spend money while they are here? Is there a way to measure the success of your project and at what points are you going to share your stories with CCT?
Step 2 – Project Brief
Describe the project and how it will fit with one or more of CCT’s priorities. Explain how the partnership will further the success of the project. Please see APPENDIX I for a template.
Step 3 – Project Budget
How much money does your organization have to support the project? What does the project budget (revenue & expenses) look like with CCT’s participation? Please note your investment can’t come from other provincial sources (e.g. grants).
Step 4 – Metrics
Explain what project success (ROI) looks like. How will success be measured and reported to CCT?
Step 5 – Submit your Proposal
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Step 6 – Project Review
Assistance in preparing and reviewing project applications in advance of submission deadline is available, upon request.
NOTE The CCT’s The Partnership Committee meets to approve the applications within 10 business days of application deadlines. All applicants will be notified the following week regarding the status of the partnership.
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NOTE the latest intake period is May 15, 2021 for projects beginning June 1 – July 31
With the ambition to attract more tourists to Durham Region and to extend their stay while there, Central Counties Tourism is continuing its industry partner programs.
Historically Central Counties has continuously performed partner intakes until all available funds have been committed. This year the periods are staggered, so seasonal events have equitable access to funds before they are committed.
Intake periods:
March 15, 2021 for projects beginning April 1 – May 31
May 15, 2021 for projects beginning June 1 – July 31
July 15, 2021 for projects beginning August 1 – September 30
Sept 15, 2021 for projects beginning October 1 – December 31
December 15, 2021 for projects beginning January 1 – March 31, 2022
For further application details and program specifics, follow this link.
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Funding for Great Lakes protection
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has announced a series of new environmental funding opportunities as part of their Great Lakes Proection Initiative, ranging from $25,000 to $150,000 for projects that restore water quality and ecosystem health, with requests for applications due by March 3.
This funding is widely accessible. Eligible recipients include conservation authorities, indigenous communities or their governments; indigenous organizations or associations, municipalities, non-governmental organizations, not for profit organizations; for profit organizations; and research, academic, and educational institutions.
The ECCC provides this funding to restore water quality and aquatic ecosystem health. However, the work must be conducted in the ECCC’s prescribed Areas of Concern, which are:
Eligible project types include those which contribute to directly eliminating identified “beneficial use impairments” through action, engagement and/or science.
Action projects include implementing remedial actions that result in environmental improvement, including habitat rehabilitation, rural non-point source control, contaminated sediment remediation, municipal wastewater treatment, and urban storm water/combined sewer overflow control.
Engagement projects include supporting strategic engagement with local communities for Remedial Action Plan work planning, implementation and decision-making towards restoring beneficial use impairments.
Science projects include conducting science and monitoring to assess the status of beneficial use impairments against delisting targets and informing remedial action planning and implementation.
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Applications due March 3
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has announced a series of new environmental funding opportunities, with requests for applications due by March 3, including the EcoAction Community Funding Program.
Up to $100,000 in funding is available for new projects that engage Canadians and clearly demonstrates measurable, positive results related to fresh water through the EcoAction Community Funding Program.
You may be eligible if, through your project, Canadians are contributing to the improvement of water quality through the diversion and reduction of harmful substances in freshwater.
Or, you may be eligible if your project helps Canadians contribute to the improvement of freshwater management and increases climate resilience through action involving the development and/or restoration of natural infrastructure.
This program is designed for non-profit and non-government groups and organizations, and the Government of Canada prioritizes projects that engage Indigenous Peoples, youth, or small businesses. Eligible groups include environmental groups; community groups; youth and seniors groups; community-based associations; service clubs; and Indigenous organizations.
You may be part of an ineligible group, including businesses, educational institutions, a C3 organization (like a corporation, trust, or unincorporated association exempt from federal income tax), crown corporations, individuals, or a municipal, provincial or territorial government. However, you may still be eligible for funding if you partner with an eligible organization.
Note, this funding is for projects beginning summer 2021.
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