Environment Grants Awarded 2005
Total disbursement for 2005 under Metcalf Foundation’s Environment Program equaled $1,400,000. The following is a list that includes grants to qualified donee organizations and descriptions of agency agreements and contracted services for specific charitable work to be carried out on behalf of the Foundation.
Healthy Lands - Boreal Forests
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Ottawa, Ontario
$184,000
To support the national coordination of its boreal forest initiative as well as regional work on boreal forest issues in the north-central region of Saskatchewan and the north shore of Québec.
Canary Research Institute on Mining Environment and Health – Ottawa, Ontario
$60,000 (year 2 of 3)
To build the capacity of citizen groups in Ontario to deal with mining through research, education and the creation of opportunities for informed discussion of mining issues at local and provincial levels.
Northwatch – North Bay, Ontario
$50,000
To improve the ability of the public to participate in forest management planning in northeastern Ontario by supporting the local advisory committees to the Ministry of Natural Resources, establishing local forest networks, and providing linkages between local, regional and provincial policy processes.
Sierra Club of Canada - Ottawa, Ontario
$64,500 (year 2 of 2)
To achieve improved forest conservation in Newfoundland and Labrador through research on forest management practices and to enable effective public participation in both governmental processes and private sector initiatives.
Silva Forest Foundation – Slocan Valley, British Columbia
$60,000 (year 1 of 2)
To complete an ecosystem-based conservation plan for the north-central region of Saskatchewan, and build awareness of this plan with government and other parties involved in the land-use planning process.
Union Québécoise pour la Conservation de la Nature - Québec, Québec
$70,000 (year 2 of 3)
To strengthen institutional capacity by assisting with leadership transition.
Healthy Lands - Southern Ontario
Canadian Organic Growers – Ottawa, Ontario
$45,000
To increase awareness and adoption of organic farming methods in southern Ontario in collaboration with the Ecological Farmers’ Association of Ontario through the development of a transition toolkit, transition workshops and farmer-to-farmer mentoring.
Citizens’ Environment Watch – Toronto, Ontario
$120,000 (year 1 of 3)
To create a long-term community-based monitoring project across the Oak Ridges Moraine which will enable citizens to share ecological and policy monitoring data using a 'common map' that will connect knowledge about the Moraine and provide a resource for community groups and decision makers.
Conservation Council of Ontario – Toronto, Ontario
$28,000
To continue the development of the Ontario Smart Growth Network intended to raise awareness about the need to control urban sprawl, foster compact healthy community development and promote citizen involvement in planning.
Couchiching Conservancy – Orillia, Ontario
$18,600
To support ‘The Land Between’ - an initiative to foster a cultural and natural identity for the region along the southern edge of the Canadian Shield through building partnerships, creating a vision, thinking broadly across the landscape and engaging local constituents.
Environmental Defence Canada – Toronto, Ontario
$52,000
To inform the Places to Grow regional growth plan including research on the implementation and interpretation of the sub-area assessments, partnering with local community groups, building additional diversity into the Greenbelt Alliance and building the capacity of local constituents to monitor future development activities in their respective areas.
Foodshare – Toronto, Ontario
$75,000
To initiate a local food eco-label for Southern Ontario as a comprehensive strategy for food system reform that will support farmers and offer consumers a way to support local sustainable agriculture.
Pembina Institute – Toronto, Ontario
$94,000
For ongoing work on smart growth and urban sustainability through engagement with provincial agencies, monitoring and public reporting of provincial progress and research comparing key Ontario municipalities on urban form, livability and economic vitality.
Kawartha Heritage Conservancy – Peterborough, Ontario
$70,000 (year 1 of 3)
To catalyze a new level of coordinated and comprehensive regional planning and conservation action toward bioregional protection of natural and cultural resources through increased organizational capacity and the investment in new tools to work with partners and local communities.
Ryerson University – Toronto, Ontario
$8,000
To pilot the City-Builder-in-Residence initiative that will bring leaders from civil society groups to Toronto to share their experiences with community members with the goal of expanding the region’s capacity to respond to emerging growth management challenges in Toronto, the GTA and southern Ontario region.
University of Guelph, Centre for Land and Water Stewardship – Guelph, Ontario
$85,500 (year 1 of 2)
To investigate programs to support a new and entrepreneurial near-urban agriculture in southern Ontario; to support the nascent Ontario Farmland Trust; to work on research questions essential to the development of Foodshare’s local food eco-label.
Healthy Lands - Northern Appalachians
Ecology Action Centre – Halifax, Nova Scotia
$25,000
To collaborate with industry and other non-government organizations on a joint proposal to the Premier to create new protected areas candidates and address associated impacts on the participating companies.
Ecology Action Centre – Halifax, Nova Scotia
$72,000 (year 2 of 2)
To secure and promote the protection of Nova Scotia's Acadian Forest through scientific research, public education, management plan review, and coalition activities.
Nature Conservancy of Canada – Montreal, Quebec
$50,000
To support the development of an evolving cross-border collaborative dedicated to promoting the Northern Appalachian / Acadian region and providing a pivotal gathering place for information sharing, collaboration, and articulation of a clear vision for the region.
Nature Conservancy of Canada – Toronto, Ontario
$65,000 (year 2 of 2)
To standardize, format and package eco-regional blueprint data for the Prairie, Quebec and Atlantic regions and communicate the results for use by Nature Conservancy of Canada chapters and other conservation partners.
Special Initiatives
Canadian Environmental Grantmakers’ Network – Toronto, Ontario
$15,000
To develop a “Thoughleader Series on Environmental Grantmaking in Canada” involving the creation of a series of brief analytical articles by five “thoughtleaders” on their views of the issues, needs and gaps in funding environmental work in the country in order to inform and stimulate strategic thinking, discussion and debate among grantmakers.
Ryerson University – Toronto, Ontario
$40,500
To implement an expanded City-Builder-in-Residence program through which Ryerson will bring three front line leaders from other international communities to Toronto to share their city building experiences with the goal of providing an infusion of fresh city building ideas into the minds of GTA residents.
Ryerson University – Toronto, Ontario
$25,000
To initiate a series of six “mapped essays” entitled “Re(dis)covering Place: Alternative Cartographies of Toronto’s Civic Landscape,” that will offer powerful visual commentary on the cultural/natural interface of the city and provide an innovative means of engaging diverse communities and stimulating conversation about the changing notion of “place” in the contemporary metropolis.
University of Ottawa – Ottawa, Ontario
$10,000
To seed the Sustainable Prosperity Project intended to frame a new agenda for shifting Canada’s economy to a more prosperous and environmentally sustainable one within a generation through far-reaching fiscal and policy reforms that better integrate environmental costs and benefits.
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