Description      
The Global Fund for Women (GFW) supports women's groups that advance the human rights of women and girls. They help strengthen women's right groups based outside the United States by providing small, flexible, and timely grants ranging from $500 to $20,000 for operating and program expenses. The organization expresses that they value local expertise and believe that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change. GFW supports the following types of organizations that are eligible for funding: groups of women working together, organizations that demonstrate a clear commitment to women’s equality and women’s human rights, organizations that are governed and directed by women, and organizations based outside of the United States.

Comments      
Please view the organization's website to view the different types of financial assistance available to applicants. The fund awards about 600 grants annually. Due to the large number of applications received, please allow seven to nine months for the fund to review your request. The fund accepts applications throughout the year and awards grants every three months, and will send applicants a note of receipt within three weeks of receiving the application.

Contact Information      
The Global Fund for Women, 222 Sutter Street, Suite 500 San Francisco, CA, 94108, USA,
Tel: 415-248-4800, Fax: 415-248-4801

Website:

Email: americas@globalfundforwomen.org

Description      
The mission of the Gwaii Trust is to enhance environmentally sustainable social and economic benefits to the Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte Islands through the use of the fund. The Board accepts funding for the following programs: major contributions program, legacy program, culture as it relates to tourism program, healthy humans program, Haida parity program, arts program, Christmas allocation program, education programs and travel assistance program.

Comments      
As of January 2009, Gwaii Trust has a new program submission schedule. They will be accepting programs on a monthly basis. Please refer to the website for upcoming calls for applications. To find current funding opportunities, click on Programs and Guidelines.

Contact Information      
Errol Winter, Executive Director/Managing Administrator. PO Box 588, 162 Raven Avenue,
Masset, BC, VOT 1MO. Toll free: 1-800-663-2388 Tel: 250-626-3654 Fax: 250-626-3261

Website:

Email: errol.winter@gwaiitrust.com

Description      
The Harmony Foundation is involved with environement education and builidng leader capacity in this area of work. They provide leaning opportunities in the following areas: builing sustainable societies program, green cities, tools for community action, communities and climate change, biodiversity, water, green garden project, youth vision and greenworks.

Comments      
This is not a funding program, but a learning program. The innovative training programs and educational materials for educators, youth, the workplace, and communities offer a planning framework that groups can use to develop local initiatives on a wide range of environmental issues. The topic of one of the training programs is: The Leadership Training Program for Sustainable Community Development in China. Please refer to the website to learn more about other learning opportunities and about a variety of environemental issues.

Contact Information      
Harmony Foundation of Canada PO Box 50022 Unit 15, 1594 Fairfield Rd Victoria, BC V8S 1G1
Tel: 250-380-3001 Fax: 250-380-0887

Website:

Email: harmony@islandnet.com

Description      
The foundation makes grants in a wide range of areas, including arts, conservation, education, health and welfare. It maintains a flexible policy, with particular emphasis on projects showing promise of general social benefit, but which may initially lack broad public appeal.

Comments      
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. The McLean Foundation will only accept applications from organizations that have first submitted a letter of inquiry and then have been asked to submit a full proposal. Grants made by the Foundation are restricted to organizations which are recognized by Revenue Canada as charitable organizations and are able to provide a registration number.

Contact Information      
Letters of Inquiry should be addressed to: Ms. Ev McTaggart, The McLean Foundation, 2 St.
Clair Ave. W., Suite 1008, Toronto, Ontario M4V 1L5, Tel: (416) 964-6802 Fax: (416)
964-2804

Website:

Email: info@mcleanfoundation.ca

Description      
The Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund (NKDF) Society's funding programs are designed to support sustainable economic activity in northern communities affected by the Kitimat-Kemano project and by the creation of the Nechako Reservoir. The NKDF spends the income from its long-term investments on programs and projects that meet each community’s economic development goals. The grant program supports projects that address one or more of the following key aspects of economic development in the NKDF investment area: infrastructure, planning and research, human development and promotion and brokering.

Comments      
The investment area for the NKDF is normally limited to those areas with evidence of impacts from Alcan’s Nechako Reservoir and Kemano power project. Proposals may be accepted from other areas of Northwestern BC, provided the areas listed below receive economic benefits from the project. They encourage applications from local governments and legally incorporated non-profit organizations serving the following communities and nearby rural areas: District of Vanderhoof, Fort Fraser, Village of Fraser Lake, Stellat'en First Nation Village of Burns Lake, Ootsa Lake, Nadleh Whut’en Band, Saik’uz First Nation, Burns Lake Band, Nee Tahi Buhn Band, Skin Tyee Band, Cheslatta Carrier Nation and Kitamaat Village.

Contact Information      
Attention: Dan Boudreau, Manager, Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund Society, PO Box 101
Station A, Prince George, BC V2L 4R9, Tel: (250) 964-4066 Toll Free: 1-877-478-FUND
(3863) Fax: (250) 964-4068

Website:

Email: manager@nkdf.org