Programs & Grants

The North Peace Community Foundation is dedicated to ensuring the region’s charitable and non-profit organizations have the resources they require to deliver the services and programs that create sustainable, healthy, diverse and social communities for the benefit of all…forever.

Please review the existing grants below and ensure your organization is on our email list to receive important communication about these and upcoming grant and funding opportunities.

City of Fort St. John - Grants in Aid

The City of Fort St. John’s 2025 Grants-in-Aid program is administered by the North Peace Community Foundation in partnership with the City and is generously funded through the City's general taxation revenue. This program reflects the City’s commitment to supporting community organizations that deliver cultural, social, heritage, economic, and recreational programs, facilities, and events that benefit City residents, in accordance with City policy.

Eligibility: This program is open to Community Service Organizations which contribute to the common good and benefit the residents of the city of Fort St. John in one or more of the following ways:

  • Provides programs or facilities used by youth, seniors, or other special needs groups

  • Provides facilities for public use Provide supportive housing for people with special needs

  • Preserve heritage important to community character

  • Preserve an environmentally and ecologically significant area of the city

  • ·Offer public cultural or educational programs that promote community spirit, cohesiveness, or tolerance

  • Offer services to the public with a formal partnership with the city.

Qualifications:

  • Organization must be registered in good standing with the Canadian Charities Directorate, and if not a registered charity, then must be in good standing with BC Societies.

  • Organization must have previously received a Grant in Aid from the City of Fort St. John

  • Organization must own or lease developed property with the municipal boundaries of the City of Fort St. John

  • Organization must primarily serve residents of the City of Fort St. John

2025 Program: Application Period May 12, 2025 - June 13, 2025

North Peace Savings Community Legacy Fund

The North Peace Community Foundation is thrilled to announce the opening of applications for the inaugural year of the North Peace Savings Community Legacy Fund. This initiative seeks to empower charitable community service organizations in the Northern Rockies and North Peace regions, providing a unique opportunity for them to further their programming.

Established to reinvest retained earnings from the North Peace Savings and Credit Union prior to the 2023 merge with Interior Savings, this Fund embodies a commitment to reinvesting in the communities that have steadfastly supported and enriched the Credit Union throughout the years. In 2024, the Fund will embark on its mission, supporting crucial causes, initiatives, and programming that will further enhance the regions it continues to serve.

Charitable and non-profit organizations* located and serving in the Northern Rockies and/or North Peace regions are invited to submit proposals for projects and programs between $5,000 & $50,000 which align with at least one of the Fund's focus areas:

• Empowering Personal Success: Fostering financial literacy initiatives.

• Promoting Healthy Living: Providing essential support for a healthier community.

• Enhancing Food Accessibility: Improving access to and availability of nutritious food.

• Supporting Families with Children: Creating initiatives that benefit families and their children.

2025 Application Period: May 23 - June 13, 2025

OUR VALUES

Community-driven & community-led

Appropriate structures are in place to safeguard assets.

Accountable

We take our responsibilities and decisions seriously and are willing to be held to account by all of our stakeholders.

Planned

The Community Foundation will provide both short-and long-term positive impacts for the community.

Protective of funding and assets

Ensure ongoing investment in the community non-profit sector by leveraging non-taxbase revenue for long-term sustainability and strength of the community.

Adaptable

The Community Foundation will be empowered and enabled to adapt to community needs over time.

Transparent

The Community Foundation will ensure transparency in operations of the Community Foundation through development of an accountable and inclusive framework for information