Grantee Projects

Explore the grants that REFBC has awarded since 2009.

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2021

West Kootenay Community EcoSociety

Land Use

$100,000

To engage racialized, rural, small, and suburban communities using the deep canvassing model to build support for sustainable land-use planning and renewable energy.

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2021

Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre Society

Built Environments

$16,650

To bring inner-city groups together to explore the feasibility of assembling a land trust to protect community organizations from rising real estate prices and threatened security of tenure.

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2021

South Vancouver Neighbourhood House

Built Environments

$30,000

To provide an engagement platform for racialized people to address historic underinvestment in infrastructure and social services, identify needs, and influence change in the Killarney, Victoria-Fraserview, and Sunset neighbourhoods.

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2021

Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Fresh Water

$63,417

To support First Nations on the Lower Fraser River in building their freshwater stewardship capacity and incorporating their values into plans and policies.

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2021

Lhtako Dené Nation

Fresh Water

$32,500

To train personnel and build capacity within the Nation and neighbouring Nazko First Nation to assess and mitigate the cumulative effects of industrial development and climate change on freshwater ecosystem and salmon health.

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2021

Kwikwetlem First Nation

Fresh Water

$45,000

To assess freshwater resources (above and below ground) in their territory through a field measurement program and high-resolution computational modelling.

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2021

Foodlands Cooperative of BC

Food Sovereignty

$60,000

To, through engagement with Indigenous peoples, build a decolonized land trust that supports inclusion and food security.

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2021

Ecotrust Canada

Land Use

$75,000

To undertake legal research on innovative land tenure models needed to support development in First Nations jurisdictions and implement B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.

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2021

Central Kootenay Food Policy Council

Land Use
Fresh Water

$40,000

To convene First Nations, local governments, organizations, and academics with the aim of achieving forestry law reform that better protects fresh water in BC.

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2021

Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Food Sovereignty

$200,000

To conduct research to inform a participatory approach to mapping and advocating for two Indigenous food lands conservation areas — one urban, one rural.

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2021

West Coast Environmental Law

Land Use
Fresh Water

$70,000

To provide legal analysis to the Living Dike Roundtable and Lower Fraser Fisheries Alliance in support of nature-based solutions to climate change on the Lower Fraser River.

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2021

Waterlution: A Water Learning Experience

Fresh Water

$40,000

To jointly produce video stories with Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities about freshwater challenges for a new interactive learning platform.

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2021

221A Artist Run Centre Society

Built Environments

$25,000

To develop plans for an innovative Vancouver Cultural Land Trust, which will improve security of tenure for diverse artists and arts organizations in terms of affordable cultural spaces in East Vancouver, Downtown, and Chinatown.

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2021

Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association

Land Use

$80,000

For the Okanagan Collaborative Conservation Program to undertake three land-use initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through carbon sequestration, increase equity in decision-making between Syilx and non-Syilx partners, and enhance biodiversity.

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2021

Takla Nation

Land Use

$30,000

To create a caribou management and restoration strategy that will inform the development of resource management and land use plans for Takla Nation territory.

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2021

Sunshine Coast Conservation Association

Fresh Water

$25,000

To collaborate with local governments and First Nations and contribute policy analysis in support of the development of watershed protection plan for the West Howe Sound Watershed.

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2021

Starfish Environmental Society

Built Environments

$16,676

To, with its partners, create a leadership and innovation lab to engage diverse youth on positive placemaking initiatives in Victoria.

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2021

Southern Gulf Islands Community Resource Centre Society

Land Use

$75,000

ṮEṮÁĆES Revitalization Project — To, in partnership with the W̱SÁNEĆ School Board, create videos to share the W̱SÁNEĆ worldview and their reciprocal stewardship model for the Southern Gulf Islands (known to them as ṮEṮÁĆES, which translates as "Relatives of the Deep"); this stewardship role will be shared with Gulf Islanders to build community-to-community relationships and to promote more inclusive use of lands and waterways.

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2021

Sooke Region Communities Health Network

Built Environments

$20,000

To carry out research and community engagement to inform the design of an elders’ complex that will enable Indigenous and non-Indigenous seniors to age in place.

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2021

Savage Productions Society

Land Use

$20,000

To develop five geo-located works of auditory theatre, created by Indigenous artists in collaboration with Indigenous memory holders, to reveal the hidden history of the land beneath the Lower Mainland.

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2021

MakeWay Charitable Society

Land Use
Fresh Water

$20,000

For Reel Youth to offer an online film program that brings together diverse participants to capture their visions for the future of land and water locally.

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2021

Social Planning Cowichan

Land Use

$75,000

For partnering with the Quw’utsun’ Cultural Connections Society to establish a Quw’utsun’ Legacy Trust, to develop a framework for non-Indigenous people to donate or protect land for cultural use and access.

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2021

One Straw Society

Food Sovereignty

$14,800

To establish a Sunshine Coast Food Systems Action Team and conduct research to better understand the production and consumption of local food.

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2021

Okanagan Basin Water Board

Fresh Water

$17,500

To take an Indigenous-led approach to design and facilitation of the 2021 Osoyoos Lake Water Science Forum, produce a documentary about the process, and contribute to reconciliation in the Okanagan.

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2021

MakeWay Charitable Society

Food Sovereignty

$20,000

For the Nawalakw Culture Project to provide training to build knowledge and capacity to grow food and increase local food security in Indigenous communities on Vancouver Island.

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2021

Simon Fraser University

Food Sovereignty

$19,750

For the N-EAT (Nutrition through Engagement and Agricultural Technologies) project to collaborate on an action plan to improve food security for at-risk youth and low-income people in the Stó:lō Nation.

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2021

Lower Fraser Fisheries Alliance

Fresh Water

$66,000

To hire First Nations liaisons for watershed working groups as it works to implement the Lower Fraser Climate Adaptation and Habitat Restoration Strategy.

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2021

HUB Cycling

Built Environments

$20,000

To research the status of cycling facilities in older commercial, industrial, residential, and mixed-use buildings, and recommend measures to better support cycling as a transportation choice for tenants of older buildings.

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2021

Habitat for Humanity Society of Greater Vancouver

Built Environments

$80,000

To catalyze the salvage and resale of building materials through its Rebuild Hub and, in doing so, promote building deconstruction over demolition, and help build the region’s circular economy.

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2021

Greater Victoria Greenbelt Society

Land Use

$20,000

For working with the WSÁNEĆ Knowledge Keepers to incorporate traditional ecological knowledge and develop kincentric mapping that will expand the scope of the land covenant at Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary, providing a model in BC for incorporating First Nations wisdom into conservation covenants.

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