The Canadian NorthFresh Water Resources ProtectionGlobal Citizenship
Recent Grants

At the June 2009 meeting of our Board of Directors, the following grants were ratified:

Fresh Water Resources Protection


Ecology Action Centre
$40,000.00
www.ecologyaction.ca
Advancing Nova Scotia Water Strategy

Hatchet Lake Denesuline First Nations
$5,000.00
www.sicc.sk.ca
Keepers of the Water IV; The Sacred Gift of Water

Institute for Research on Public Policy
$5,000.00
www.irpp.org
Grant Year - 2009
Survey on Canadian Water Policy

Resource Library for the Environment & the Law
$40,000.00
www.cela.ca
For the work of the Canadian Environmental Law Association on: The Water Guardian Network 2010

Global Citizenship


Canadian Council for International Co-operation
$3,000.00
www.ccic.ca
Workshop - Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Response

Simon Fraser University
$16,500.00
www.sfu.ca
Conference: Africa and its Diasporas

University of British Columbia – Liu Institute for Global Issues
$3,000.00
www.ligi.ubc.ca
African Canadian Accountability Coalition “The Gender Security Project”

The Canadian North


City of Iqaluit - Department of Recreation and Community Services
$1,000.00
www.city.iqaluit.nu.ca
Donation towards operations of the Elder's Qammak

National Environmental Treasure
$8,500.00
www.oursafetynet.org
Small Change Fund: Affecting Social Change through Grassroots Grantmaking in the North

Yellowknives Dene First Nation
$25,000.00
Dechinta: Northern University Field School (Phase II).

Northern Youth Abroad
$5,000.00
www.nya.ca
Pilot alumni internship

University of Alberta – Canadian Circumpolar Institute
$20,000.00
www.ualberta.ca/nativestudies
Northern Governance Policy Research Conference