Collage of community climate action grant activities, including people planting trees, attending workshops, collaborating in groups, and engaging in educational and hands-on projects.

Community Climate Action Grants

Applications are closed for the 2026 Community Climate Action Grant. The next intake will be in fall 2026.

The Community Climate Action Grant (formerly the Greenest City Grant) is for community-led projects in Vancouver that directly support the focus areas of our 2 climate plans, the Climate Emergency Action Plan, and Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, while advancing equity in our city.

Grant name change overview
The Greenest City Grant funded community-led sustainability projects supporting the Greenest City Action Plan, a plan that completed in 2020. We thank these organizations for their contribution towards making Vancouver a green and vibrant place to live.

Now, the new name reflects our focus on urgent climate action. The Community Climate Action Grant now prioritizes high-impact projects that directly support our climate plans, which focus on cutting Vancouver biggest sources of pollution and protecting communities most affected by climate change.

We want to support projects that:
- Reduce carbon pollution through sustainable transportation, efficient buildings, renewable energy, and low-carbon building materials
- Build resilience to climate hazards like extreme heat, poor air quality, drought, heavy rain, and sea level rise
- Teach and involve the public in climate solutions

Key dates

Step 1

Activity	Date
Expression of interest opens	September 2, 2025
Online information session	September 15, 2025
Expressions of interest deadline	September 26, 2025

Step 2

Activity	Date
Applicants receive feedback on their EOI and may be invited to submit a full application	Week of October 13, 2025
Full grant application deadline	November 24, 2025
Application review by City staff	December 2025 to January 2026
Applicant notifications	1 week before City Council meeting
Final approval	Spring 2026, Council meeting (TBD)

Funding available
- Maximum for each project: $50,000
- In 2026, we anticipate funding 3 to 6 projects total (pending Council budget decisions)
- We encourage you to match the funding with your own money or in-kind support
Who can apply
You can apply if your project is led by any of these groups:
- Registered non-profit society
- Registered charity in good standing with the Canadian Revenue Agency
- First Nations Band
Your project must:
- Take place in Vancouver and benefit the city
- Support 1 or more focus areas of the Climate Emergency Action Plan or Climate Change Adaptation Strategy while also advancing climate equity
- Last 1 to 2 years
How to apply

Applications are closed for the 2026 Community Climate Action Grant. The next intake will be in fall 2026.

In the meantime, get to know our grant by watching the applicant information session recording .

Application review timeline

Expressions of Interest will be reviewed and only the strongest eligible applicants will be invited to submit full applications. All applicants will be notified the week of October 13, 2025.

Celebrating the successes of the Greenest City Grant

Between 2016 to 2025, the Greenest City Grant funded $2.5 million in community-led projects advancing sustainability and climate action in Vancouver.

Current projects

Vancouver Climate Champions ($48,264)

Be the Change Earth Alliance

The Vancouver Climate Champions initiative creates learning resources aligned with Vancouver’s climate plans to help students and teachers grades 5 to 12 understand priorities such as extreme weather preparedness and low-carbon transportation. Through student workshops and teacher training, the program supports schools in translating municipal climate strategies into practical, community-level projects.

Supports: Climate Emergency Action Plan, Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

False Creek Community-led Mapping Project ($48,264)

False Creek Friends and Georgia Straight Alliance

This project maps how False Creek’s urban watershed acts as a safe harbour from climate impacts by combining lived experience from local residents, equity-deserving groups, and Indigenous Peoples with existing scientific data. The resulting accessible map will illustrate local climate risks and opportunities for stewardship and ongoing climate action.

Supports: Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Intergenerational Climate Response Group ($48,264)

Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House

This project strengthens climate resilience and community wellbeing through intergenerational collaboration. Youth and seniors cocreate culturally relevant cooling kits and lead multilingual air filter workshops, supporting vulnerable residents during extreme weather. Outcomes include 75+ kits, 3 to 4 workshops, updated educational materials, and a sustainable, peer-led model that fosters inclusive climate preparedness.

Supports: Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Intergenerational Climate Education and Adaptation in the West End ($48,264)

Gordon Neighbourhood House

This initiative, led by Gordon Neighbourhood House, the West End Seniors’ Network, and Qmunity, strengthens neighbourhood resilience to extreme heat and poor air quality by integrating climate supports into services for home bound seniors and creating intergenerational spaces where youth and older adults share resources, build mutual aid networks, and develop practical adaptation tools.

Supports: Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Oppenheimer Repair Clinics ($48,264)

PEDAL/Our Community Bikes

The Oppenheimer Repair Clinics support active transportation in the Downtown Eastside by offering free, year-round repairs for bicycles and mobility devices. Through hands-on learning and low-barrier skill-share workshops, the clinics help residents maintain access to low-carbon transportation, extend device lifespan, and reduce waste, strengthening mobility and climate-friendly transportation options for thousands of participants each year.

Supports: Climate Emergency Action Plan

Connecting Youth to Green Rainwater Infrastructure in Still Creek ($48,264)

Still Moon Arts Society

This project builds climate literacy among Vancouver Grade 6 and 7 students through hands-on learning at 3 local Green Rainwater Infrastructure sites.

Seasonal fieldtrip modules and curriculum-linked classroom materials teach biodiversity, water quality, and stewardship skills, empowering youth to understand climate adaptation, monitor ecosystem health, and care for their community’s natural environments.

Supports: Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Vancouver Youth Climate Corps ($48,643)

Youth Climate Corps BC (YCCBC)

The Youth Climate Corps BC (YCCBC) is an employment service program that provides young people aged 17 to 30 with jobs and training in community climate action projects, while paying them a living wage. YCCBC will work to foster young climate leadership, civic engagement and workforce readiness in climate jobs for young Vancouverites.

Supports: Climate Emergency Action Plan, Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Cool It! Climate Leadership Training in the City of Vancouver ($35,576)

BC Sustainable Energy Association

The Cool It! program is an environmental education initiative delivered in schools across BC. It combines interactive workshops with a take-home climate-action curriculum, improving students' understanding of climate science and providing tangible actions they can undertake.

Cool It! workshops provide a foundational level of climate science literacy — focusing on the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change — with an emphasis on local impacts as well as mitigation and adaptation strategies, examples of youth climate action, green careers, climate justice, as well as Indigenous knowledge and concepts related to climate change mitigation and environmental stewardship.

The goal is to educate 1,380 grade 4 to 12 students in underserved schools and communities in Vancouver.

Supports: Climate Emergency Action Plan, Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
Completed projects
2025
- A Better Life Foundation — Waste Not, Want Not ($44,470)
- Better Environmentally Sound Transportation — Eco-Voyage 2.0: Sustainable Journeys for all ($40,024)
- Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House — Intergenerational Climate Response Group ($35,576)
- HUB Cycling — Bike Parking Retrofit Program for Older Buildings ($44,470)
- S.U.C.C.E.S.S. — Seniors' Summer Club ($44,470)
2024
- PEDAL/Our Community Bikes — Oppenheimer Repair Clinics ($48,643)
- Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST) — EcoVoyage: sustainable journeys for all ($43,778)
- The Cinematheque — Trek community-based filmmaking ($19,459)
- CityHive Youth Engagement Society — Climate Action Jam ($38,915)
- Still Moon Arts Society — Cultivating green-blue spaces in the Still Creek watershed ($38,915)
2023
- Create Climate Equity — Empowering Vancouver’s Diverse Communities in Climate Action ($41,422)
- Environmental Youth Alliance — Youth climate stewards ($41,422)
- False Creek Friends Society — Connecting people, science, and action to enhance the sustainability of False Creek’s marine environment ($39,000)
- Hives for Humanity — A decolonising toolkit for community tended gardens ($41,422)
- Kickstand Community Bikes Society — Bikes for families ($28,000)
- Watari Counselling and Support Services — V6A garden club ($41,422)
2022
- Be The Change Earth Alliance (BTCEA) — Youth climate justice collaborative (YCJC) ($41,000)
- CityHive Youth Engagement Society — Youth civics and climate leadership program ($39,000)
- Create Climate Equity — Engaging Vancouver's diverse communities in climate action ($41,000)
- HUB Cycling — StreetWise public cycling education ($29,000)
- Vancouver Food Runners Society — Increasing access to food recovery in Vancouver ($41,000)
- Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty — Being good guests - Climate justice in a complex system of biocultural heritage ($41,688)
2021
- Latincouver Cultural and Business Society — Latino Climate Action ($42,000)
- UBC Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP) — Cool' Hood Champs: Empowering, coordinating and scaling up neighborhood climate action ($34,000)
- Vancouver Food Runners — Food donor expansion project ($32,000)
- West Side Family Place Society — First steps to a healthy climate ($42,000)
- Still Moon Arts Society — Shedding light on Still Creek: Community led Beaconsfield Wetland and Ecosystem Connection Project ($40,000)
- Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty — A just transition – Restoring Indigenous foodlands ($41,065)
2020
- Be the Change Earth Alliance — Youth For Climate Action ($50,000)
- Environmental Youth Alliance Society — Land Guardians: A Program for Urban Indigenous Youth ($50,000)
- Free Geek Community Technology Centre Society — Repair Hub ($41,252)
- HUB Cycling — Vancouver First Nations Youth - Building Community Through Cycling ($34,400)
- Food Stash Foundation — From Pedal to Plate: Sustainable delivery of rescued food ($50,000)
2019
- Check your head — Food Justice Project ($48,000)
- Kickstand Community Bikes Society — Recycling Volunteer Engagement Project ($60,000)
- South Vancouver Neighbourhood House — Green Leaders Cycle ($30,500)
- Stanley Park Ecological Society(SPES) — Vancouver International Bird Festival ($35,000)
2018
- Kickstand — Kickstand Community Bikes Society ($46,000)
- Hives for Humanity’s — Beekeeping Mentorship Program ($70,000 over 2 years)
- The Thingery — The Thingery ($30,540)
- Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST) — WalkSide ($30,000)
- Growing Chefs Society — Classroom Gardening and Cooking Program ($40,000 over 2 years)
- Stanley Park Ecology Society — Youth4Nature Stanley Park ($33,460)
2017
- Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) — BiodiverCity ($76,000 over 2 years)
- Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre Association — Downtown Eastside Women’s Street Market ($41,000)
- Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House and Luv the Grub — Luv the Grub Youth ($11,500)
- Pedal Energy Development Alternatives Power Association — Pedals for the People ($18,541)
2016
- Potluck Café Society — Food Recovery Feasibility Study ($20,040)
- BCIT — Greenest City Lighter Footprint Goal: Addressing the measurement gap in food consumption ($45,000)
- Gordon Neighbourhood House — Gordon Greens Mobile Produce Market ($45,000)
- Evergreen — Green Bloc Neighbourhoods Vancouver ($50,000)
- Hives for Humanity — Therapeutic Mentorship Beekeeping ($45,000)
- HUB Cycling — Newcomer Bike Host Program ($45,000 over 2 years)
Greenest City Neighbourhood Small Grant update
The Greenest City Neighbourhood Small Grant is ending, with the final round of funding to neighbourhood houses dispatched by the City of Vancouver and Vancouver Foundation in spring 2025.

Find out if your neighbourhood is still accepting applications

We’re exploring new ways to continue supporting resident-led climate action in Vancouver. In the meantime, you can:
- Walk, bike, roll, transit – Find resources to help you get around the city sustainably.
- Home Energy Navigator – Get free advice and support for improving home energy efficiency.
- Seeding Stewardship Program – Volunteer to care for nature-based solutions that cool the city and reduce climate impacts.
- Adopt a catch basin – Help prevent climate-related flooding in your neighbourhood.
- Adopt a tree – Keep the city cool by watering trees in your neighbourhood.
Learn more ways to support climate action in Vancouver