Please download and use the RTF (Word) version of the grant application. Feel free to contact us by telephone or email if you have questions.

The Real Estate Foundation of BC aims to be a pivotal connection in making land use knowledge and practice in BC a model for the world, "leading learning" and "aligning resources" relating to the sustainable use and conservation of land and real estate. The Foundation will give preference to projects that support our mission by demonstrating:

• Leadership and innovation
• Partnership and collaboration
• Sustainability/longevity
• Scalability/replicability  

Process

We now have one form for both stages of our grant application process. Here is what you need to do. (Remember, only non-profit organizations are eligible to apply.)

1. Stage 1 - Create a grant application in as much detail as you can (formerly the Letter of Inquiry stage). It will be considered by the Real Estate Foundation staff review committee. Download form at top of page. When it is complete, email it to submissions@refbc.com.
   
2. Stage 2 - If Foundation staff advises you that the Board of Governors will consider your project for a grant, you may revise your grant application (i.e. edit it to update the application with new information and more detail) and resubmit it by the new, later date given to you by Foundation staff.

Real Estate Foundation staff are available by telephone and email to answer your questions throughout the grant application process.

Letters of Support

If your organization is invited to submit an application for review by the Board of Governors (Stage 2), you must provide two current letters of support. They must be from organizations other than your own which can vouch for your capacity and ability to complete the project for which you are applying to the Foundation for funding.

2012 Stage 1 Deadlines

• The Stage 1 deadline for the March grants meeting was in November 2011.
• March 2 (for June grants meeting)
• May 25 (for September grants meeting)
• August 27 (for December grants meeting)
• November 16 (for March 2013 grants meeting)

Applications must be received prior to midnight on the deadline day to be eligible for consideration in that funding cycle. In fairness to all grant applicants, the deadline is firm. Send applications to submissions@refbc.com.

Funding Criteria Review - July update

What's new?

Since January 2011 we have been undertaking a review of the Real Estate Foundation's funding criteria to achieve greater impact in fulfilling the organization's mandate and mission.

At the Foundation’s June 2011 strategy meetings, the Board of Governors approved the following grants program focus areas to be formally implemented in March 2012:

• Built Environment
• Fresh Water Sustainability
• Sustainable Food Systems

These focus areas are in addition to support allocated to BC real estate industry organizations for real estate-specific public and professional education, research, and law and policy reform.

How will this affect grant applicants?

Over the next several months, the Foundation will develop underlying criteria that will apply to the three focus areas. Many of the kinds of projects that receive Real Estate Foundation grants currently will continue to be eligible under the new criteria to be announced in March 2012.

Please visit the links at left for current information on funding criteria, exclusions, and recent grants approved, and feel free to contact our grants program staff with your questions.