The Ontario Trillium Foundation
Public Health Agency of Canada Population Health Fund
Heifer International Canada
Heifer International Canada (HIC) provides grants for up to $5,000 from Ontario-based organizations with charitable status for projects aimed at assisting people in need to engage in food-oriented income generating activities. For more information about HIC, visit http://www.heifercanada.org and http://www.heifer.org .
Metcalf Foundation
The goal of the George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation is to enhance the effectiveness of people and organizations working together to help Canadians imagine and build a just, healthy, and creative society. Grantmaking work is focused in three specific areas:
- sustaining the vibrancy of the professional performing arts,
- harnessing the benefits of living within the Earth’s environmental limits and
- improving low-income peoples’ economic livelihoods and access to quality jobs.
Real Food Movement Grant Program
Hellmann’s Real Food Grants Program is focussed on initiatives that encourage families to learn about and experience real food
OMAFRA List of Funding Programs and Support for Food Businesses
This list of funders includes includes federal, provincial and municipal programs as well as some programs offered by utilities providers. Contact information is included for each of the programs.
Ontario Natural Food Co-op Community Development Fund
ONFC grants funds to organizations who promote sustainable food choices. ONFC will fund up to a maximum of $5,000 or a maximum of 10 percent of the organization’s total annual budget. They will consider multi-year applications which span a maximum of three years.
The Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation
The Foundation is dedicated to promoting and sustaining the Greenbelt as a beneficial, valuable, and permanent feature, enhancing the quality of life for all residents of Ontario. Their vision is a vibrant and healthy Greenbelt with a protected and restored natural environment, a strong and successful rural countryside, a robust agricultural sector and a pattern of urban settlement that supports the Greenbelt. They support a variety of activities in the following three program areas:
- Promoting Greenbelt-grown food;
- Greening the Greenbelt through cleaner air and cleaner water; and
- Inspiring innovation in the Greenbelt.
