In 2022, Echo Foundation awarded grants totalling $7,349,000 to support a variety of concrete endeavours which reflect the Foundation’s environmental priorities and concerns, including:
Action Saint-François
Sherbrooke, Quebec
($25,000, over three years) $5,000
For its waterway cleaning activities.
Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative (A2A)
Lansdowne, Ontario
$40,000
For its core operating expenses.
Les Amis de la Montagne
Montreal, Quebec
($50,000, over two years) $25,000
For its project “Consultation of Mount Royal institutions for the ecological management of their properties, GDE component”.
Appalachian Corridor
Eastman, Quebec
($225,000, over three years) $75,000
For the protection of the natural corridor spanning the Vermont/Quebec border and extending from the Green Mountains, through the Sutton Mountains, to Mount Orford and beyond.
Aqua Action
Montreal, Quebec
($50,000, over three years) $20,000
For AquaHacking Atlantic Canada 2022-2024.
Birds Canada / Wildlife Conservation Society / NatureServe Canada
Port Rowan, Ontario
($350,000, over three years) $150,000
For their project “Identifying and Stewarding Key Biodiversity Areas in Canada”.
Canadian Organic Growers
Ottawa, Ontario
($120,000, over two years) $60,000
For its project titled “Regenerative, resilient organic food and farming system across Canada”.
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Ottawa, Ontario
$50,000
For its “30×30 Campaign”.
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Quebec Chapter
Montreal, Quebec
($80,000, over two years) $40,000
For the Table Duchesnay volunteer network project.
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Quebec Chapter
Montreal, Quebec
$200,000
For the support of civil society’s participation in COP15.
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Quebec Chapter
Montreal, Quebec
($225,000, over three years) $75,000
For its project “Acting as a leader in marine conservation in Quebec”.
The Canary Research Institute for Mining, Environment and Health
Ottawa, Ontario
($200,000, over two years) $100,000
For the promotion of improved mining regulations and policies, studies on the environmental and socio-economic impacts of mining operations, as well as for administrative expenses.
Catherine Donnelly Foundation
Toronto, Ontario
$35,000
For the “For Our Kids” initiative.
Centre for Land Conservation
Kanata, Ontario
$40,000
For the testing and completion of the Performance Assurance Program for 10 organizations.
Climate Reality Project Canada
Montreal, Quebec
$50,000
For its operating expenses.
Community Forests International
Sackville, New Brunswick
($300,000, over three years) $100,000
For its Forgotten Forests project.
Conservation Council of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
($75,000, over two years) $30,000
For its work within the Climate Narratives initiative.
Conservation Council of New Brunswick / Ecology Action Centre
Fredericton, New Brunswick / Halifax, Nova Scotia
($150,000, over two years) $75,000
For the project titled “Unlocking the Power of Families: Accelerating Electric Vehicle Adoption in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Conservation Lakefield
Gore, Quebec
$65,000
For the acquisition and protection of a 289-acre property in the County of Gore.
Cycle Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
$18,000
For its cycling outreach program.
DataStream Initiative
Toronto, Ontario
$50,000
For its operating expenses.
David Suzuki Foundation
Montreal, Quebec
$100,000
For the Future Growth Network’s work in Quebec and Ontario.
Ducks Unlimited Canada
Quebec City, Quebec
$75,000
For the acquisition and protection of five properties totalling 467.63 acres at Île-du-Grand-Calumet.
Earth Rangers
Woodbridge, Ontario
($50,000, over two years) $20,000
For its Alumni Program.
Earthroots
Toronto, Ontario
($170,000, over three years) $70,000
For its capacity building.
East Coast Environmental Law Association
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($160,000, over three years) $50,000
For its capacity building.
Éco-Corridors Laurentiens
St. Jerome, Quebec
$12,000
For their work to protect properties through conservation easements.
Éco-Corridors Laurentiens
St. Jerome, Quebec
($105,000, over three years) $35,000
For its project ”Ecological corridors: A strategy for adapting to climate change”.
Ecojustice Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($150,000, over two years) $75,000
For its operating expenses.
Ecojustice Canada
Toronto, Ontario
$200,000
For its project “An Integrated Strategy for Phasing Out Fossil Fuel and Accelerating the Transition to Net-Zero Emissions in Canada 2022-2023), and for in-person convening.
Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($200,000, over two years) $100,000
For its operating expenses.
Elora Centre for Environmental Excellence
Elora, Ontario
$17,000
For “The Tree Trust”.
Environmental Defence Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($200,000, over two years) $100,000
For its work on plastics.
Environment Funders Canada
Toronto, Ontario
$1,000,000
To support the work of the Low Carbon Funders’ Group as reflected in the Pan-Canadian Framework.
Environment Funders Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($120,000, over two years) $60,000
To support the work of the Indigenous Climate Action.
Équiterre
Montreal, Quebec
($150,000, over two years) $75,000
For its project “Advancing a Transition Towards Healthy Agricultural Soils in Quebec”.
Evergreen
Toronto, Ontario
($200,000, over three years) $100,000
For its “Toronto Ravine Program & Master Planning” project.
Fatal Light Awareness Program Canada
Toronto, Ontario
$10,000
For its operating expenses.
Fondation SÉTHY
Granby, Quebec
($85,000, over three years) $45,000
For its conservation and restoration projects.
Foundation for Environmental Stewardship
Toronto, Ontario
($350,000, over four years) $50,000
For its work to support and empower the youth climate movement.
Foundation for Environmental Stewardship
Toronto, Ontario
($200,000, over four years) $40,000
For the Youth Climate Lab.
Foundation for Environmental Stewardship
Toronto, Ontario
$10,000
For a governance review of the Climate Action Network.
The Gaia Project
Fredericton, New Brunswick
$30,000
For its Youth Climate Leadership Network.
Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere
Parry Sound, Ontario
$20,000
For its State of the Bay 2023 report.
Greenbelt Foundation
Toronto, Ontario
($200,000, over two years) $125,000
For its project titled “Valuing Nature in Municipal Asset Management”.
Green Economy Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
($100,000, over two years) $40,000
For its core operating expenses.
Green Thumbs Growing Kids
Toronto, Ontario
($40,000, over two years) $20,000
For its Kids Growing Program.
Le Groupe Ambioterra
St. Chrysostome, Quebec
($60,000, over three years) $30,000
For the protection of natural habitats in southwestern Quebec.
The Group of 78
Nepean Ontario
($60,000, over two years) $30,000
For the Climate Legacy Project.
Ignatius Jesuit Centre
Guelph, Ontario
($70,000, over two years) $35,000
For the project titled “New Farmer Education in Regenerative Organic Agriculture”.
Institute for Sustainability Education & Action
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
$35,000
For the research and production of three articles on ‘The Climate Solutions Reporting Project’.
Inter Pares
Ottawa, Ontario
($160,000, over two years) $80,000
For the project titled “Food for the Common Good: Supporting a rapid transition to just and ecological food systems through network and advocacy”.
Island Nature Trust
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
$35,000
For the acquisition and protection of the 99.8-acre Peacewood property in St. Charles.
Magnetawan Watershed Land Trust
Magnetawan, Ontario
$25,500
For the acquisition and protection of the 200-acre Whitestone property.
MakeWay Charitable Society
Toronto, Ontario
($325,000, over three years) $125,000
For Our Living Waters and the Forum for Leadership on Water, and their work to ensure clean and healthy waters for all Canadians.
MakeWay Charitable Society
Toronto, Ontario
($180,000, over three years) $60,000
For the EcoAnalytics initiative.
MakeWay Charitable Society
Toronto, Ontario
($150,000, over two years) $75,000
For its “Coalition for Action on Toxics” project.
Manitoulin Streams Improvement Association
Manitowaning, Ontario
$20,000
For its operating expenses.
Mont-St-Hilaire Nature Conservation Centre
Mont-St-Hilaire, Quebec
($150,000, over three years) $50,000
For its operating expenses.
Mont-St-Hilaire Nature Conservation Centre
Mont-St-Hilaire, Quebec
($200,000, over two years) $125,000
For the ‘Coalition for the protection and connectivity of the Montérégie hills’.
The Narwhal News Society
Victoria, British Columbia
($130,000, over three years) $50,000
For its Ontario expansion plans.
National Aboriginal Trust Officers Association / Shareholder Association for Research and Education
Hagersville, Ontario
($75,000, over three years) $25,000
For their project “Reconciliation and Responsible Investment”.
National Farmers Foundation / National Farmers Union – Ontario
Guelph, Ontario
($50,000, over two years) $25,000
For their project “Land-Linking and Succession Planning”.
Nature Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
($360,000, over four years) $80,000
For its project titled “Scaling Up Nature-based Climate Solutions in Canada”.
Nature Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
($30,000, over two years) $15,000
For the Green Budget Coalition, which regroups 22 leading environmental organizations, which analyzes the environmental impacts of the Federal government’s draft budgets and makes recommendations thereon.
Nature Newfoundland and Labrador
St. John’s, Newfoundland
($70,000, over two years) $35,000
For its project ‘Building Sustainable Organization Capacity’.
Nature Nova Scotia
Kentville, Nova Scotia
$20,000
For capacity building.
Nature Québec
Quebec City, Quebec
($180,000, over three years) $50,000
For its work natural areas conservation.
The Nature Trust of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
$30,000
For the acquisition and protection of the 185.3-acres Coles Island.
The Nature Trust of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
$17,000
For the acquisition and protection of the 88.96-acres Waasis property.
Nature United
Toronto, Ontario
($100,000, over two years) $50,000
For its project “Mobilizing Nature To Tackle Climate Change”.
Ontario Clean Air Alliance Research Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
$40,000
For a campaign to promote conservation and demand management as a viable alternative to dirty energy sources.
Ontario Land Trust Alliance
Acton, Ontario
($150,000, over three years) $50,000
For the Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts.
Ontario Streams
Aurora, Ontario
$50,000
For its project titled “Restoring Lake Ontario’s Headwater Aquatic Habitats”.
Park People
Toronto, Ontario
$20,000
For its program “Sparking Change Toronto”.
Partage & Solidarité
Montreal, Quebec
$3,000
For its fight against food waste.
Quebec Environmental Law Centre
Montreal, Quebec
($100,000, over two years) $50,000
For its operating expenses.
Quebec-Labrador Foundation
Montreal, Quebec
($275,000, over three years) $125,000
For its work on connectivity in the Northern Appalachian-Acadian/Wabanaki ecoregion and for a Northeastern North America Landscape Connectivity Summit and Action Plan.
rare Charitable Research Reserve
Cambridge, Ontario
($400,000, over two years) $200,000
For land conservation projects.
Raven Indigenous Impact Foundation
Victoria, British Columbia
$15,000
To help cover the costs of the clean-up and rebuild of ceremonial spaces damaged by a storm in Ontario.
RAVEN (Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs)
Victoria, British Columbia
($300,000, over three years) $100,000
For its core operations.
Regroupement-Partage
Montreal, Quebec
($50,000, over four years) $5,000
For an organic agriculture project where half the produce is donated to disadvantaged families, and half is sold to grocery stores.
Sackville Rivers Association
Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia
($35,000, over two years) $20,000
For its River Restoration Project.
Salal Foundation / Canopy
Vancouver, British Columbia
($225,000, over three years) $75,000
For its collaboration with Canopy for conservation work under the Salal Foundation’s program priority Greening Canadian Industries.
Salal Foundation / Future Majority
Vancouver, British Columbia
($150,000, over two years) $75,000
For the ‘Supermajority’ project.
Salal Foundation / STAND
Vancouver, British Columbia
($250,000, over two years) $125,000
For its collaboration with STAND on Boreal Forest protection, and its work in Ontario and the rest of Eastern Canada.
SeedChange
Ottawa, Ontario
($360,000, over three years) $120,000
For its project titled “Farmer Capacity Building for Climate-Resilient Seed Systems in Eastern Canada”.
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, British Columbia
$50,000
To support Clean Energy Canada’s project titled “Advancing Climate Action in Ontario”.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
($150,000, over three years) $50,000
For its operating expenses.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
$50,000
For the work of “Stop Sprawl” groups in Ontario.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
($120,000, over three years) $40,000
For its work with the Wellington Water Watchers to accomplish innovative solutions to environmental and Indigenous issues.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
($200,000, over two years) $100,000
For the “Public Voice Fund’.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
$30,000
For the Environmental Justice Research Alliance.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
$200,000
For its efforts to protect the Toronto Greenbelt.
St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences
Cornwall, Ontario
($30,000, over two years) $15,000
For its science for youth programs.
Succession / Ecology Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario
($200,000, over two years) $100,000
For their work to convene municipal grassroots organizations and engage citizens in climate solutions.
Sustainability Network
Ottawa, Ontario
($300,000, over three years) $100,000
For the GreenPAC Parliamentary Internship Program.
Sustainability Network
Toronto, Ontario
$20,000
For its operating expenses.
Thames Talbot Land Trust
London, Ontario
($75,000, over two years) $25,000
For its capacity building.
Thames Talbot Land Trust
London, Ontario
($300,000, over two years) $150,000
For land conservation projects.
Toronto Association of Neighbourhood Services
Toronto, Ontario
($50,000, over two years) $25,000
To support the work of the Ontario Nonprofit Network.
Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto, Ontario
($150,000, over two years) $75,000
For the Supermajority project.
La Transformerie
Montreal, Quebec
$10,000
For its fight against food waste.
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario
($72,000, over three years) $24,000
For the implementation of the Trent Nature Areas Stewardship Plan.
Two Countries, One Forest Society (2C1F)
Fredericton, New Brunswick
($300,000, over three years) $100,000
For core administrative expenses and support of landscape scale conservation work across the northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion.
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($200,000, over two years) $100,000
For conservation work in Ontario’s northern Boreal area, mapping and GIS support of the northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion and for its operating expenses.
World Wildlife Fund
Toronto, Ontario
($125,000, over two years) $65,000
For their work in Ontario and New Brunswick.