Emergency Management
The following links provide information to local governments and First Nations about funding programs to support preparation for disaster before it happens.
Please note that the Province of British Columbia is not responsible for the material and/or content presented on any non-provincial government site listed below.
Funding Programs
Columbia Basin Trust Community Development Program
The Community Development Program responds to project proposals or ideas from Basin communities, groups and organizations that build capacity within the Basin in ways that are consistent with the Columbia Basin Trust’s mandate.
http://www.cbt.org
Community Development Trust
Launched in 2008, this initiative includes three programs: the Transitional Assistance Program supports older workers as they move towards retirement; the Tuition Assistance Program helps forestry workers upgrade skills; the Job Opportunities Program creates short-term job opportunities for forestry, fishing, agriculture, mining or manufacturing resource workers.
http://www.cd.gov.bc.ca/cdt
Community Wildfire Protection Element Program
The Community Wildfire Protection Element Program is an expansion of the Union of BC Municipalities’ Strategic Wildfire Protection Program, which targets provincial crown lands around communities most at risk of fire. The Element aims to improve community safety and reduce the risk of property damage by removing dead timber and creating fire breaks in pine forests immediately surrounding communities within the beetle zone.
http://mpb.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/protect/community/wildfire_e.html
Community Wildfire Protection Plans
The Community Wildfire Protection Plan program was launched in 2004, and more than 60 communities have applied for funding to date. Communities who have not yet taken advantage of this funding are encouraged to apply. The purpose of this program is to assist communities in the development of plans that will assist them in improving fire prevention and protection in the interface areas.
http://www.civicnet.bc.ca/siteengine/ActivePage.asp?PageID=220
Crime Prevention Action Fund
The Crime Prevention Action Fund (CPAF) supports crime prevention initiatives in communities large and small. It aims to build partnerships between sectors (such as policing, community health, voluntary and private sectors) to enhance community capacity to prevent crime through social development. It is a federal program that is delivered regionally in partnerships with the provincial and territorial governments, and nationally for those projects involving more than one jurisdiction.
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/cp/cpaf_index-eng.aspx
Fuel Management Initiatives for Communities at Risk to Wildfire
Fuel Management is the process of modifying forest and range fuels (trees, low branches, needles, and woody debris) to achieve specific land management objectives. For the Ministry of Forests and Range Protection Program, the primary objective is to manage forest fuels in and around communities in order to reduce the potential for devastating wildfires.
http://www.civicnet.bc.ca/siteengine/ActivePage.asp?PageID=220
Hazard Tree Removal from Municipal Lands Element Program
The Hazard Tree Removal from Municipal Lands Element aims to reduce the risk to public safety in the beetle zone via the removal of hazardous trees from municipal parks and public school yards.
http://mpb.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/protect/community/municipal_e.html
Island Coastal Economic Trust
The Island Coastal Economic Trust provides funding to create new and sustainable regional economic growth through strategic investments in targeted “sectors” with the north Island, coastal and Sunshine Coast regional economy.
http://www.islandcoastaltrust.ca/index.php
Joint Emergency Preparedness Program
The Joint Emergency Preparedness Program (JEPP) enables the Federal Government to contribute to, or undertake jointly with the provinces and territories, projects to ensure a relatively uniform level of emergency preparedness and response across Canada. JEPP cost-sharing assistance is available to local government and provincial ministry projects, not to individuals.
http://www.pep.bc.ca/jepp/jepp.html
Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund
The Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund Society is a grant-making agency that assists the people of North West British Columbia, and in particular the Nechako region and Kitamaat Village, by sponsoring sustainable economic and social projects in the area most affected by the Kemano project and the creation of the Nechako Reservoir. The NKDF will invest in community economic development projects and/or programs that are supported by the community, as long as they do not subsidize private business.
http://www.nkdf.org/
Northern Development Initiative Trust - Community Foundation Funding Program
The Northern Development Initiative Trust's Community Foundation Funding Program assists all municipalities and regional district electoral areas in the Northern Development Initiative Trust region of central and northern British Columbia in building an endowment fund that supports local social, cultural and environmental needs via local decision-making.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding...
Northern Development Initiative Trust - Economic Development Capacity Building
The Northern Development Initiative Trust's Economic Development Capacity Building Program funding provides $30,000 annually from the Cross Regional Account to ensure stable economic development funding for municipalities and regional districts. An additional $5,000 is available to each eligible local government, specifically for a collaborative project with another local government, regional economic development alliance, or another group, with outcomes that deliver measureable economic benefits to the area.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding...
Northern Development Initiative Trust - Economic Diversification Infrastructure Program
The Northern Development Initiative Trust's Economic Diversification Infrastructure program provides municipalities, regional districts, First Nations and non-profit groups funding via Northern Development’s six (6) principal Trust Accounts: the Regional Development Accounts (Cariboo-Chilcotin/Lillooet, Northeast, Northwest, and Prince George), the Pine Beetle Recovery Account, and the Cross Regional Account. As Northern Development’s primary community economic development funding program, projects that serve to diversify local and regional economies are eligible for infrastructure and capital investment funding.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding...
Northern Development Initiative Trust - Feasibility Studies or Marketing Program
The Northern Development Initiative Trust's Feasibility Studies or Marketing Program provides municipalities, regional districts, First Nations and non-profit groups such as industry associations with a grant up to a $20,000 for: a feasibility study that will demonstrate a strong business case for an infrastructure project that is aligned with Northern Development’s Economic Diversification Infrastructure funding program that will diversify and provide direct measurable economic benefits to the local or regional economy, or; development and implementation of a marketing program that will increase revenues within the region.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding...
Northern Development Initiative Trust - Industry Attraction Rebate Program
The Northern Development Initiative Trust's Industry Attraction Rebate Program provides up to $20,000 in matched funding from the Cross Regional Account directly to communities in central and northern British Columbia to hire appropriate resources to create jobs through industry attraction. As an output from this work, communities will: understand the needs of the target industry; how they can meet those needs; and implement focused marketing and discussions with senior executives at target companies.
http://northerndevelopment.bc.ca/community-funding/industry-attraction
Policing, Corrections and Communities Fund
The Policing, Corrections and Communities Fund (PCCF) supports projects where community partners work together to prevent crime, primarily through social development. It is intended for law enforcement agencies, community corrections groups/organizations, Aboriginal communities, community-based organizations and the municipalities in which they work.
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/cp/ncps_fundsindex-eng.aspx
Safe Street and Safe Schools Program
The Safe Streets and Safe Schools Grant Program provides support to schools and communities for strategies that enhance public safety and local crime prevention efforts. The program encourages the development of best practices and innovative strategies that expand or increase problem solving approaches to crime and build capacity for community safety at the local level.
http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/community_programs/crime/safe.htm
Southern Interior Development Initiative Trust
A $50-million Southern Interior Development Initiative will give communities the funding and ability to create new opportunities for sustainable economic growth and more jobs. The mission of the Southern Interior Development Initiative Trust is to support regionally strategic investments in economic development projects that will have long-lasting and measurable regional benefits for the Southern Interior.
http://www.sidit-bc.ca/
Urban Development Agreements
An Urban Development Agreement is a partnership between federal, provincial and municipal governments to collaborate when addressing broad urban development issues for specific cities. Whether it is inner city revitalization, strengthened innovation, or sustainable economic development, each urban development agreement is tailored to address the needs of the city it involves.
http://www.wd.gc.ca/eng/298.asp
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