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

Oppenheimer repair clinics ($48,643)

P.E.D.A.L./ Our Community Bikes

The Oppenheimer Repair Clinics promote active transportation in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) by offering free repair clinics twice a week for 3 hours. DTES residents gain, or maintain, transportation access and the lifespan of their mobility device is extended. Waste is reduced, education takes place, and climate impacts are minimized.

Supports: Climate Emergency Action Plan

Cultivating green-blue spaces in the Still Creek watershed ($38,915)

Still Moon Arts Society

This project supports community-engaged green infrastructure creation in three parks within the Still Creek Watershed, combined with Still Creek restoration and enhancement. Public education and engagement with stewardship, urban nature and climate adaptation, prioritising equity-deserving groups, with the aim of increasing resilience, mitigating flooding, and increasing biodiversity as well as equitable access to natural spaces.

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

Bike Parking Retrofit Program for Older Buildings ($44,470)

Hub Cycling

This program guides 5 older mid-sized Vancouver residential buildings through the process of upgrading bike parking facilities, focusing on buildings housing socio-economically disadvantaged residents.

HUB will support landlords, building managers, and stratas to identify options and costs for new bike parking rooms and equipment, provide them with guidance on municipal permitting processes, and assist with financial subsidies to contract bike rack and related installations from suppliers and contractors.

In doing so, this project will enable the expansion and improvement of parking facilities for regular bikes, e-bikes, and family and cargo bikes in 5 older residential buildings to increase accessibility, security against bike theft, and personal safety for people using cycling facilities for an estimated 500 people.

Supports: Climate Emergency Action Plan

Eco-Voyage 2.0: Sustainable Journeys for All ($40,024)

Better Environmentally Sound Transportation

Eco-Voyage aims to build sustainable transportation skills among newcomers and equity-seeking groups, encouraging active transportation lifestyles and reducing social isolation. The project offers workshops and digital content on multimodal transportation, encouraging participants to navigate Vancouver confidently and sustainably.

Building on their 2024 pilot’s lessons and successes, in 2025, Eco-Voyage will bridge information gaps on sustainable transportation modes and how to use them, build participants’ skills and confidence around using these modes, and encourage them to envision how sustainable transportation can help address inequities in their communities.

Supports: Climate Emergency Action Plan

Intergenerational Climate Response Group ($35,576)

Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House

The Intergeneration Climate Response Group empowers youth and seniors to enhance climate resilience by collaborating in intergenerational communities. They will work together to create and distribute cooling kits for disabled seniors and co-facilitate workshops on building affordable air filters, focusing on accessibility, cultural relevance, and climate action.

The project aims to support vulnerable populations—especially disabled seniors—during extreme heat events. It expands on the Youth Skills program by emphasizing accessibility, cultural relevance, and intersectional climate action, ultimately empowering both youth and seniors to be active agents in their community’s resilience efforts.

Supports: Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Seniors’ Summer Club ($44,470)

S.U.C.C.E.S.S.

The Seniors' Summer Club aims to increase awareness of climate change impacts among equity-deserving groups, including seniors, low-income individuals, persons with disabilities, and racialized people in Chinatown.

The project includes workshops, translated materials, cooling centers, and community outreach to enhance social connectedness and resilience to climate change.

Supports: Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Waste Not, Want Not ($44,470)

A Better Life Foundation

This project aims to improve access to healthy food among equity-deserving communities, while also reducing unnecessary food waste, GHG emissions, and natural resource use.

The project will divert edible food from waste streams to the preparation of healthy meals and food hampers for the local Downtown Eastside (DTES) community, with a focus on expanding the Women-Led Families Meal Program. The meals are packaged in compostable containers and delivered by zero-emission electric tricycles.

Supports: Vancouver Food Strategy
Completed projects
2024
- 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