Metis Settlement funding resources

Alberta Culture Days Grant

• Funding to assist organizations with culturally relevant programming during Alberta Culture Days, September 1 to 30.
• Who can apply: Non-profits, Metis Settlements, First Nations, universities and colleges

Alberta Made Production Grant

• Supports smaller budget Alberta productions and contributes to government’s goal of growing Alberta’s cultural industries.
• Who can apply: Organizations engaged primarily in film, television and/or digital media production

Cultural Industry Grants

• Support for organizations working in screen-based productions, book and magazine publishing, and sound recordings.
  • Book Publishers Operating Grant
  • Magazine Publishers Operating Grant
  • Music Organization Operating Grant
• Who can apply: Projects and organizations involved in book publishing, magazine publishing, sound recording and film production

Indigenous Arts Individual Project Funding

• Provides funding for a specific cultural or artistic project led by Indigenous artists, arts administrators or ensemble of artists.
• Who can apply: Indigenous residents of Alberta; ensembles, collectives and collaborations

Indigenous Reconciliation Initiative – Cultural Stream

• Supports Indigenous-led initiatives that enhance, protect or revitalize Indigenous languages, heritage, cultures and arts.
• Who can apply: Indigenous people, communities, organizations and governing bodies

Alberta Community Partnership (ACP)

• Helps municipalities provide regional collaboration, capacity building initiatives, internships and new or enhanced services.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, municipalities, regional boards and societies, etc.

Community Facility Enhancement Program (CFEP)

• Provides funding to acquire, build, purchase, repair, renovate, upgrade or expand sports, recreational, cultural or other related public-use community facilities.
• Who can apply: Organizations and non-profits that fall under the grant’s eligibility criteria

Community Initiatives Program (CIP) Project-Based grant

• Funds projects for non-profit organizations that focus on programs, events and technology.
• Who can apply: Organizations and non-profits that fall under the grant’s eligibility criteria

Community Support Fund

• Funding for Indigenous-led projects that seek to improve the well-being of Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit plus people by addressing violence and increasing their safety and economic security.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, MSGC, First Nations, Métis Nation of Alberta and other Indigenous communities and organizations

Alberta Community Restorative Justice Grant

• Provides funds to non-profits that provide restorative justice services and referrals.
• Who can apply: Non-profit organizations, Indigenous communities, youth justice committees, etc.

Help for victims of crime – Emergency assistance

• Provides financial assistance, counselling service and court expenses to victims of a violent crime to assist with losses and damages.
• Who can apply: Victims of a serious eligible offence in Alberta

Aboriginal Business Investment Fund

• Helps Indigenous community-owned businesses capitalize on business development opportunities to improve socio-economic outcomes.
• Who can apply: Indigenous businesses or communities, includes designated funding for Metis Settlements

AgriDiversity Program

• Funding for projects that assist underrepresented groups in the agriculture sector.
• Who can apply: Indigenous groups and other underrepresented and marginalized groups

Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation

• Works with Indigenous communities across Alberta to invest in natural resources, agriculture, telecommunication, transportation and tourism projects.
• Who can apply: Indigenous communities across Alberta

Indigenous Reconciliation Initiative – Economic Stream

• Funds Indigenous-led capacity and opportunity development projects that improve economic outcomes for communities.
• Who can apply: Indigenous people, communities, organizations and governing bodies

Northern and Regional Economic Development Program

• Funds initiatives that support economic development and diversification.
• Who can apply: Incorporated non-profit organizations, municipalities, First Nations and Metis Settlements

Small Community Opportunity Program

• Funds for small communities to help build capacity in agriculture, small business and local economic development.
• Who can apply: Indigenous communities, small communities and non-profit groups they work with

Training and employment services – Self-employment Program

• Supports formal training, business plan development, one-to-one business counselling, coaching and guidance.
• Who can apply: Unemployed or underemployed people living in Alberta seeking to start a business for the purpose of self-employment

Disaster Recovery Program

• Provides financial assistance to help individuals restore uninsurable lost or damaged property due to a disaster.
• Who can apply: Individuals impacted by uninsurable loss due to disasters

Drought and Flood Protection Program

• Provides funding to help build drought and flood protection projects.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, First Nations, municipalities   

Fighting and Managing Wildfires in a Changing Climate Program: Training Fund

• Provides funding to Indigenous organizations and communities to support wildfire training projects.
• Who can apply: Indigenous organizations, groups and communities

Fire Services Training Grant

• Provides funding to communities to help ensure their local fire services are properly trained to respond safely to community risks.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, municipalities, First Nations or in partnership with one of the listed

FRIAA FireSmart Program

• Provides funding for projects related to fire planning, fuel management, public education, inter-agency cooperation and training.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, First Nations and municipalities, including partnerships of these entities

Alberta Child Care Grant Funding Program

• Early Childhood Educators can receive wage top-ups and professional development funding funnelled through a child care program.
• Who can apply: Licensed child care programs

Healthy Community Grant

• Provides funds to promote and improve healthy eating and active living opportunities in communities.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, First Nations, non-profits, municipalities and public schools

Honouring Life – Indigenous Health

• Formerly, Aboriginal Youth and Community Empowerment Strategy or AYCES, a youth life promotion and suicide prevention program developed to build capacity in mental wellness, resiliency and healthy lifestyles.
• Who can apply: Métis communities and First Nations 

Indigenous Addiction and Mental Wellness (IAMW)

• Supports Indigenous-led organizations that build on community driven mental health and wellness projects to address needs and service gaps.
• Who can apply: Indigenous organizations

Indigenous Primary Health Care Innovation Fund

• Invests in Indigenous-led, culturally safe primary health care programs that improve health equity and access through traditional healing, elimination of systemic racism and community-designed services.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, First Nations, Indigenous non-profits, Inuit organizations registered in Alberta

 Indigenous primary health care funding – Patient Navigator Grant

• Funds the hiring of Indigenous Patient Navigators to help patients access health services, advocate for care and support care coordination.
• Who can apply: Indigenous organizations or health service providers working with Indigenous populations  

Ethnocultural Grant

• Funds initiatives that create intercultural connections and celebrate diversity among ethnocultural and Indigenous groups.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, First Nations, community organizations 

Heritage awareness grants

• Supports interpretive and public engagement projects that preserve and promote Alberta’s history.
• Who can apply: Individuals that reside in Alberta or have a permanent Alberta address, registered organizations in Alberta including First Nations and Metis Settlements

Heritage publication grants

• Supports the production of publications that preserve and promote Alberta’s history.
• Who can apply: Individuals that reside in Alberta or have a permanent Alberta address, registered organizations in Alberta including First Nations and Metis Settlements

Heritage research grants

• Supports research projects that preserve and promote Alberta’s history.
• Who can apply: Individuals that reside in Alberta or have a permanent Alberta address, registered organizations in Alberta including First Nations and Metis Settlements

Historic resource conservation grants

• Funds to conserve historic places.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, First Nations, municipalities, non-profits, churches and schools

Affordable Housing Partnership Program

• Funding to help pay for construction, renovation or development of housing projects.
• Who can apply: Public, private, non-profit organizations aiming to provide affordable housing

Continuing Care Capital Program – Small Care Home Stream

• Capital funding to build care homes that house between 4 and 14 residents in small, rural and remote communities that support populations with complex health needs.
• Who can apply: municipalities, not-for-profit and for-profit organizations

Indigenous Housing Capital Program

• Increases the supply of affordable housing units for Indigenous people through construction (including additions/extensions), purchase and repurpose.
• Who can apply: Indigenous governments or organizations; housing management bodies, municipalities, and non-profit organizations with formal partnerships with Indigenous governments or organizations

Métis Urban and Capital Housing Cooperation Housing Programs

• Provides subsidized and affordable housing for low-income Indigenous families.
• Who can apply: Métis and other Indigenous families in Alberta

National Housing Co-Investment Funding

• Funds new affordable housing and the renovation and repair of existing affordable and community housing.
• Who can apply: Housing providers serving Indigenous people

Affordable Housing Fund: New Construction – Rapid Housing Sub-Stream 

• Capital funding for the construction of shelters, transitional and supportive housing for those in greatest need.
• Who can apply: Indigenous governments or organizations

Reaching Home

• Métis Capital Housing Cooperation provides immediate interventions for Métis families who are homeless or on the verge of being homeless.
• Who can apply: Métis people in Alberta facing homelessness

Alberta Broadband Fund

• Funds projects that extend or enhance household access to high-speed internet services with speeds less than federal targets.
• Who can apply: Indigenous entities, municipalities and Canadian companies

Rural Transit Solutions Fund

• Funds capital projects and planning and design projects that develop transit solutions for rural and remote communities.
• Who can apply: Rural, remote, Northern and Indigenous communities

Alberta Municipal Water/Wastewater Partnership

• Funding for municipal water supply and treatment facilities, and wastewater treatment and disposal facilities.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, cities (under 45,000 population), towns, villages, summer villages, regional commissions, counties and municipal districts

Green Municipal Fund

• Funds help local governments switch to sustainable practices faster in waste, water, energy, transportation, land use and housing.
• Who can apply: Non-profits, Indigenous communities and municipalities

Local Government Fiscal Framework (previously MSI)

• Provides funding for projects and activities that enhance municipal sustainability and growth.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements and municipalities

Local Municipal Initiatives (LMI)

• Provides funding to municipalities for priority local transportation infrastructure projects not eligible under other streams of the Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program (STIP).
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, municipalities

Municipal Climate Change Action Centre

• Various funding programs aimed at addressing climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, municipalities, towns and cities

Strategic Transportation Infrastructure Program (STIP)

• Provides funds to assist in road, airport and bridge construction and maintenance.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, municipalities, counties and towns

Water for Life program

• Funds new regional water supply and treatment facilities, and wastewater treatment facilities.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, regional commissions and municipalities 

Canada-Alberta Job Grant

• Funding to help employees and unemployed people living in Alberta access training opportunities.
• Who can apply: Metis Settlements, First Nations and employers

Canada Summer Jobs Wage Subsidy

• Provides wage subsidies to employers with 50 or fewer employees to create quality summer work experiences for people 15 to 30 years of age.
• Who can apply: Non-profit organizations, private businesses and public sector

Employment Partnerships Program

• Funding for Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Program agreement holders to connect Indigenous people to employment.
• Who can apply: Indigenous Skills and Employment Training (ISET) Program agreement holders (Metis Settlements can inquire with MSGC)

Indigenous Employment Training Partnerships Program

• Eligible Indigenous organizations can apply for grant project funding to assist unemployed or under-employed Indigenous individuals with skills training and work experience.
• Who can apply: Indigenous Skills and Employment Training Program agreement holders. Metis Settlements can apply through the Metis Settlements Strategic Training Initiative Society

Training and Employment Services – Self-employment Program

• Training, business plan development and one-to-one guidance for eligible people living in Alberta to develop and start a new business.
• Who can apply: Unemployed and under-employed adults in Alberta, who are permanent residents or Canadian citizens, seeking to start a business for the purpose of self-employment

Workforce Partnerships grants

• Funding to support labour market adjustment strategies and workforce development to attract and retain workers.
• Who can apply: Non-profits, employers, industry associations, Indigenous organizations

Belcourt-Brosseau Métis Awards

• Helps Métis people in Alberta realize self-sufficiency through post-secondary education and skills development. This award is intended to cover a portion of education-related costs such as tuition and fees.
• Who can apply: Priority is given to students entering their first year of post-secondary education who show financial need and have a connection to the Métis community

Bob Etherington Heritage Conservation Fund

• Funding to support attendance or delivery of training that will develop heritage conservation skills.
• Who can apply: Permanent residents of Alberta planning to attend an eligible course/workshop in heritage conservation work

First Nations, Métis and Inuit Bursary

• Provides funding for students in the form of a non-repayable bursary in exchange for full-time employment in the north for every year of bursary support received.
• Who can apply: Métis, First Nations and Inuit students enrolled full-time in a post-secondary program

Indigenous Careers Award

• Provides funding for Indigenous students.
• Who can apply: Indigenous students enrolled full-time in a post-secondary school or First Nations College in Alberta

First Nations, Métis and Inuit Languages Teacher Bursary

• Eligible applicants can get money to complete a post-secondary Indigenous language, culture or teaching development course.
• Who can apply: Residents of Alberta who are Canadian citizens, permanent residents or protected persons (visa students are not eligible)

Northern Alberta Development Bursary

• Provides student funding of up to $14,000 over 2 years and is non-repayable if they agree to live and work in the north.
• Who can apply: Eligible students enrolled in a full-time post-secondary program in the fall

Roger Soderstrom Scholarship

• Students in a graduate or extended program in the heritage field working on an eligible research project may apply for a scholarship.
• Who can apply: Permanent residents of Alberta enrolled in a graduate or extended study program with a proposed research project at that level, in the eligible study fields

Theodore R. Campbell Scholarship

• Recognizes the academic excellence of Indigenous students enrolled in an education program at the University nuhelot’ine thaiyots’i nistameyimakanak Blue Quills.
• Who can apply: Indigenous students who are Canadian citizens or Alberta resident and have completed first-year Education at Blue Quills with 24 credits and 70% attendance, show financial need and are enrolled full-time in second year.