It’s a Party!
20 Years of environmental stewardship

Anniversaries are fun because they highlight and honour the past but also give new life and energy to the future. Twenty years ago, eight environmental organizations and eight corporations sat down together as colleagues and began the journey of collaborative dialogue and decision-making. They started with the task of getting to know each other, learning about grassroots environmental activity and how to make grants. The people representing these organizations were committed to success and never wavered from the common purpose they shared: listen to each other, trust each other, and work hard to get more resources into the hands of environmental organizations. More...

Just Who do We Think You Are?
Support sought for ENGO Mapping Project

How many environmental groups are now working in Alberta? Where are they? What issues are they working on? What approaches are they using? How can we contact them? To answer those questions, and to support better networking within Alberta's environmental community, Alberta Ecotrust is working with the Alberta Environmental Network (AEN) on an Alberta ENGO Mapping Project and updated Alberta Environmental Directory.    More...

Need Cash for a Great Project?
Major Grant Letters of Intent due February 15th

Is your nonprofit or charity working on an environmental project or program focused on water, wildlife, habitat conservation or air/climate/energy? Would $30,000 help you achieve your goals? Apply today for a Major Project grant!    More...

Need a Work Space?
Alberta Ecotrust hot desk offer

Looking to get out of your home office and get some people energy? Alberta Ecotrust has a spare work space at the Kahanoff Centre to share with nonprofit environmental or sustainability organizations. More...

Capacity Corner - Our Friend Lynda
Instruction, information and inspiration for the digital age

In an era of rapid technological change, trying to gain and maintain the multiple skills nonprofit managers and staff need to be effective is a huge challenge. New concepts, products and apps rattle around us like popcorn from a popper with no off button. If you're plagued with the need to know, and need some help with the knowing, we'd like you to meet one of our new best friends, Lynda. More...

Environmental Mentoring for New Canadians
Cross-cultural learning program seeks volunteers

Are you interested in sharing perspectives on environmental issues with professionals who are new to Canada? Gaining valuable cross-cultural insight in a real-life setting? Developing your leadership and coaching skills?  If, so you might want to consider the Calgary Region Immigrant Employment Council's mentoring program. More...

With a Little Help...
Thank you for a productive 2011!

For me, the approach of Christmas at Ecotrust is inevitably accompanied by two related phenomena. The first is the mad scramble to finish up the business of the current year and complete the planning for the next. The second - generated in part by the first -- is a reflection on Ecotrust's achievements and a great surge of the gratitude I feel for all of you who continue to support in myriad ways "the trust" we set out to create 19 long years ago.   More...

Alberta Ecotrust Announces Fall Grants Results
Water, Southern Alberta lead the pack

When Alberta Ecotrust's Grant Review Committee met in Calgary in late November to consider the Foundation's fall slate of environmental projects, there were 17 projects on the table and $200,000 of available funding. By the end of the day, 12 of the projects - including five focused on southern Alberta - had been awarded funding to help protect and enhance Alberta's world-class natural heritage.   More...

Listening to the Stars
Ecotrust co-hosts social change collaboration workshop

For all the talk about a rapidly changing world, there seems to be little real action devoted to the practices needed to navigate it successfully. To help narrow that need-action gap, Alberta Ecotrust recently co-hosted a workshop by one of Canada's foremost experts on collaboration for social change.   More...

Keep the Trust Alive
As the Season of Giving is upon us, we hope you’ll add us to your list

Close to 20 years ago, Ecotrust co-founders Michael Robertson and Rob McIntosh created an organization to build trust between corporations and environmental nonprofits and a trust fund to support community-driven projects to protect our environment. Today, we need you to keep their dream and the trust alive. More...