Feds taking applications for small projects through Natural Infrastructure Fund

OTTAWA — The Government of Canada is accepting applications for new projects through the Small Projects Stream of the Natural Infrastructure Fund (NIF).

The $200 million NIF supports building community awareness of the value of natural infrastructure and will bring benefits to communities across Canada by improving access to nature, providing cleaner air and water, protecting and preserving biodiversity and wildlife habitats and mitigating carbon emissions, indicates a release. 

Municipalities, local governments, provinces or territories, public sector bodies, Indigenous organizations, not-for-profit and for-profit organizations in partnership with other eligible applicants outside the private sector, can apply for up to one million dollars in federal funding to restore and enhance urban forests, street trees, wetlands, living dykes, bioswales and naturalized coastal restoration.