2011 Grant Disbursements: Building a Better Environment - One Project at a Time

Alberta Ecotrust supports a spring and fall round of granting each year. The spring round for 2011 resulted in a total of $180,000 awarded to 11 projects. The foundation also sponsors a separate program for innovative projects by Youth Environmental Stewardship (YES) under 26. In 2011, the YES program awarded $44,950 to 10 projects.

Filter Grants

Toward Collaborative Sustainable Land Management: A Survey of Prairie Stakeholders (2011)

Grantee: Alberta Fish & Game Association
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Fall

Photovoice 2.0: Stewardship at Shutter Speed (2011)

Grantee: Battle River Watershed Alliance
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Spring

Living & Recreating Smart with Wildlife Workshop Series (2011)

Grantee: Biosphere Institute for the Bow Valley
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Fall

Calgary Urban Harvest Project (2011)

Grantee: Calgary Permaculture Guild
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Spring

Planting Grassroots - Mobilizing and Engaging Albertans in Land-use Planning (2011)

Grantee: Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Southern Alberta Chapter
Grant type: Major Project Grant; Cycle: Fall

Protection for the Castle Special Place (2011)

Grantee: Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Fall

Educational and Promotional Facility (2011)

Grantee: Edson and District Recycling Society
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Spring

Environmental Assessment Model Legislation (2011)

Grantee: Environmental Law Centre
Grant type: Major Project Grant; Cycle: Spring

Protecting Southern Alberta's Headwaters through Regional Planning (2011)

Grantee: Environmental Law Centre
Grant type: Major Project Grant; Cycle: Fall

Princess Prudence and the Fairest in the Land - Touring Show (2011)

Grantee: Evergreen Theatre Society
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Fall

Identification and Mapping of Grizzly Bear Denning Habitat to Aid Recovery and Conservation (2011)

Grantee: Foothills Research Institute
Grant type: Major Project Grant; Cycle: Spring

CREEKFEST 2012 (2011)

Grantee: Friends of Fish Creek Provincial Park Society
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Fall

Volunteer Wildlife Ambassadors: Good Neighbours with Nature (2011)

Grantee: Friends of Kananaskis Country Cooperating Association
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Spring

Cumulative effects study for the Ghost Watershed - Phase 2 (2011)

Grantee: Ghost Watershed Alliance Society
Grant type: Major Project Grant; Cycle: Spring

Working Towards Environmental Health through Urban Agriculture (2011)

Grantee: Greater Edmonton Alliance
Grant type: Major Project Grant; Cycle: Fall

Navigate 2012 - A Water Literacy Youth Summit (2011)

Grantee: Inside Education Society of Alberta
Grant type: Major Project Grant; Cycle: Fall

Ignite Change Now! Youth Leadership Program - Our World, Our Water (2011)

Grantee: John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Spring

Cowboys and Carnivores: A Landowner Carnivore Monitoring Program - Phase 2 (2011)

Grantee: Miistakis Institute for the Rockies
Grant type: Major Project Grant; Cycle: Fall

Launching the Nordegg Bearsmart Program (2011)

Grantee: Nordegg Community Association
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Spring

Engaging Rural Alberta in Clean Energy Opportunities (2011)

Grantee: Pembina Foundation for Environmental Research and Education
Grant type: Major Project Grant; Cycle: Spring

Energysmart House Calls Project, Viking (2011)

Grantee: Rural Outreach and Agricultural Renaissance Society
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Fall

A South Saskatchewan River Basin Communication Strategy for the Water Conservation Trust of Canada (2011)

Grantee: Water Conservation Trust of Canada
Grant type: Community Grant; Cycle: Spring