The Collective Fund for Climate and Ecological Transition at the Foundation of Greater Montréal aims to step up the fight against climate change and stimulate the adaptation, resilience and socio-ecological transition in Greater Montréal.

Coming soon : the Collective Fund for Climate and Ecological Transition in 2025

The upcoming edition of the Collective Fund for Climate and Ecological Transition will be launched in January. FGM will accept funding requests between January 15 and February 21, 2025. The Fund will support the resilience, power to act and transformational capacity of communities in the face of climate change, and to further environmental justice. It will back initiatives for a two-year period, through flexible funding and support for capacity building. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, discover the Fund’s 2024 grantees

Check out our Strategic Granting Framework and our trust-based philanthropy approach to better understand the principles that govern our granting choices.

Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) – Prioritized communities

Initiatives specifically working towards quality-of-life improvements for historically marginalized populations, as identified by FGM will be prioritized. They are: Indigenous, Black or racialized individuals, women and girls, and those belonging to LGBTQ2S+ communities, living with functional limitations (physical or intellectual) or who are neurodivergent.

In a perspective of territorial equity and social justice, the following communities will also be prioritized:

  • Those living in neighbourhoods whose living environments’ characteristics are unfavourable or which are under-served in terms of natural or green infrastructures.
  • Those that are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis.

Special attention will also be paid in order to ensure an equitable distribution of funding in Greater Montreal’s various neighbourhoods, including the North and South Shores.

Through the Collective Fund for Climate and Ecological Transition, FGM pursues four strategic objectives:

 

  • Mobilize and reinforce the capacity of the ecosystem of organizations active in the ecological transition;
  • Increase the funding available for initiatives that contribute to the fight against climate change and move forward the ecological transition in Greater Montréal;
  • Unite Montréal’s philanthropic actors behind Greater Montréal’s climate- and environment-related objectives so as to enhance their reach and impact;
  • Support foundational or innovative projects with a significant potential impact.

The Collective Fund for Climate and Ecological Transition is a fund to which anyone can contribute. Donors and fund partners may direct their contribution towards any of the components, or make a donation of unrestricted funds.

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