Eligible Recipients: Organizations and Individuals
Area: the Northwest Territories
Activities: Training in self-propelled wilderness travel (hiking, paddling, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing)
Amount Available: $1000 – $7000 (Please note that amounts may vary year by year.)
Area: the Northwest Territories
Activities: Training in self-propelled wilderness travel (hiking, paddling, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing)
Amount Available: $1000 – $7000 (Please note that amounts may vary year by year.)
Application Process
To apply, you must create a profile on our grant application portal. If your organization already exists in our portal, but you do not have a user account, contact grants@ykcf.ca. We will create an account for you and link it to your organization. Once you are logged in, click Apply in the navigation bar to access each grant application.
2025 Key Dates
30 May 12:01AM
Applications open.
31 July 11:59PM
Applications close.
September
Funding distributed.
Please note that key dates are subject to change.
The Resilient Communities Fund accepts applications on a rolling basis as funds are available.
Chris was a proud resident of Yellowknife from the age of four onward. He had a passion for life and a deep love of the wilderness. He completed many trips mountaineering, canoeing , hiking, winter camping and backcountry skiing in the north and in the Rockies. He was also an avid mountain biker. Fearless but thorough in tackling new challenges, he brought leadership, intelligence, ingenuity and concern for others to everything that he did.
Chris’s family wishes to honour his memory by encouraging the growth and safe enjoyment of self-propelled wilderness travel and wilderness education by individuals or organizations who exhibit many of the values that Chris exemplified.
Organizations and Individuals in the Northwest Territories training in self-propelled wilderness travel (hiking, paddling, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, etc.).
Grantees are eligible to re-apply for grants in successive years; however previous receipt does not guarantee future awards.
Grantees are eligible to re-apply for grants in successive years; however previous receipt does not guarantee future awards.
2025: $1000 – $7000
Please note that amounts may vary year by year.
Please note that amounts may vary year by year.
To apply, you must create a profile on our grant application portal. If your organization already exists in our portal, but you do not have a user account, contact grants@ykcf.ca. We will create an account for you and link it to your organization. Once you are logged in, click Apply in the navigation bar to access each grant application.
30 May 12:01AM: Applications open.
31 July 11:59PM: Applications due.
Please note that key dates vary year by year.
30 May 12:01AM: Applications open.
31 July 11:59PM: Applications due.
Please note that key dates vary year by year.
Applications are reviewed by our Grants Committee and Fund Advisors.
31 July 11:59PM: All applications due via grant portal.
August: Yellowknife Community Foundation staff conduct due diligence checks, and Grants Committee members undertake a review process. As a normal part of the review process, you may be contacted for further clarifying information.
September: Applicants are notified. Every applicant will receive notification regardless of funding decision.
August: Yellowknife Community Foundation staff conduct due diligence checks, and Grants Committee members undertake a review process. As a normal part of the review process, you may be contacted for further clarifying information.
September: Applicants are notified. Every applicant will receive notification regardless of funding decision.
- All successful grantees will be required to submit a final report through our online portal.
- We want to hear from you during the lifecycle of your grant! Please reach out anytime with an impact story, picture or video, or just to say “Hi!”.
- 2024: Elaine Weng
- 2023: Hamlet of Fort Liard
- 2022: Aisling Dunn
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- 2014: Tides Canada Initiatives
- 2013: École William McDonald Middle School, Northern Youth Leadership Society
- 2012: Oliver Hodgins
- 2011: Taiga Girls Camp
- 2010: Yellowknife Climbing Club
- 2009: Jamie Jacobs
- 2008: William McDonald School
- 2007: École Sir John Franklin High School
- 2004: Chris Carthew