Living Cities Canada Fund

Everyone needs to be involved to advance equitable, abundant, and thriving green infrastructure. Our Living Cities Canada Fund enables community-based organizations, Indigenous governments, and municipalities to grow support for green infrastructure and engage citizens in the planning, design, and implementation of local green infrastructure action projects. 

The Living Cities Canada Fund provides training, funding, and logistical support to engage communities in advancing local policy and implementing on-the-ground green infrastructure solutions. All participants are supported with GCC’s project management tools, training, logistical support, and communities of practice.

Read about our 2024 Living Cities Canada Fund impact here! 

The Living Cities Canada Fund has four streams:

1. The Transform Stream
2. The Mobilize Stream
3. The Demonstrate Stream
4. NEW in 2025: The Thriving Living Cities Microgrant

Transform Stream

Through our Transform Stream, we are supporting community organizations across Canada with significant funding and tools to create large-scale, equity-embedded, community-led green infrastructure projects.   

We provide partner organizations with trainings and processes to identify neighbourhoods with the highest social and environmental needs, and co-create green infrastructure sites where they are needed most.   

The Transform Stream supported 11 organizations from 2023-2024. Check back for updates on 2025 funding opportunities for large-scale projects.

Mobilize Stream

The Mobilize Stream supports community organizations, Indigenous governments and municipalities to form strategic partnerships and alliances across communities within the environmental, social and policy realms to identify ways of advancing green infrastructure in ways that are equitable.  

This stream supports partner organizations to develop and deepen local green infrastructure policy pathways to help systemically embed green infrastructure into city-building and launch community forums or strategic meetings to identify local priorities, opportunities, gaps, strengths, and next steps.  

The Mobilize Stream is launching a new bilingual training cohort in 2025, with generous support from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. To learn more, contact us.

Demonstrate Stream

The Demonstrate Stream supports community organizations across Canada to create new, small-scale green infrastructure projects in their communities. These may be depave projects, mini-forests, rain gardens, or more.  

This stream grants up to $15,000 to each selected organization to carry out this work. 

The Demonstrate Stream has supported 45 projects over the last two years. 

Intake for 2025 projects has now closed, and successful recipients will be notified in Spring 2025.

New: Thriving Living Cities Microgrants

Launched in 2025, the Thriving Living Cities Microgrant provides small-scale funding to support partner organizations across Canada in monitoring and maintaining existing green infrastructure. Through this initiative, partner organizations will conduct volunteer-based monitoring and maintenance activities to support the form and functionality of previously established sites and ensure they thrive!  

This stream grants up to $5000 to each selected organization to carry out this important work.  

The intake for 2025 projects is now closed. Successful recipients will be notified in Spring 2025.