This funding opportunity is offered under the Growing Canada’s Community Canopies initiative. The program funds plans or studies focused on sustainable expansion and resilience of community forests and trees. Plans and studies must outline how the community will implement results to make real, measurable changes and must consider socio-economic benefits, community climate change resilience, biodiversity and ecosystem health.

Communities can receive funding for plans and studies that prioritize equity-deserving communities and address systematic inequalities in tree planting locations, resource distribution and access to long-term benefits of trees and urban green spaces.

Eligible Plan or Study Categories:

Urban forest strategy or plan
Long-term strategies or action plans to manage, enhance and protect the entire urban forest (e.g., urban forest strategy or management plan, urban forest operational plan, urban forest asset management plan)

Tree planting strategy or plan
Strategies or plans specifically aimed at guiding community-wide or regional tree planting efforts, with focus on achieving strategic tree planting goals such as increasing tree abundance (e.g., tree planting strategy or framework, tree planting master plan)

Urban forestry policy or guideline
Policies or guidelines that help shape effective urban forestry policies governing tree preservation, planting and maintenance (e.g., tree or urban forest bylaws, technical guidelines and standards, urban forestry best practices and operational design standards)

Urban forestry community engagement strategy or plan
Plans to involve community members in urban forest management and education (e.g., urban forest collaboration and partnership plans, community education and engagement strategy, capacity building strategy for tree planting and maintenance)

Urban forest assessment and analysis
Projects that involve gathering, analyzing and assessing data and information to better understand and manage urban forests (e.g., tree inventory, land cover analysis, planting site inventory, canopy growth modelling, planting prioritization study, forest structure and function study, urban forest climate vulnerability assessment, urban forest current conditions assessment, urban tree risk assessment)