Active Transportation Fund

An applicant must be a legal entity capable of entering into legally binding agreements. To be considered an eligible recipient, applicants must fit within one of the following categories:

• A municipal, local or regional government established by or under provincial or territorial statute.
• A provincial or territorial government.
• A public sector body that is established by or under provincial or territorial statute or by regulation or is wholly-owned by a province, territory, municipal or regional government, including, but not limited to:
  • Municipally-owned corporations (e.g. autonomous organizations owned by municipalities, used to produce or deliver local public services outside the local bureaucracy);
  • A provincial or territorial organization that delivers municipal services (e.g. public utilities, community health services, economic development bodies); and
  • Any other form of local governance that exists outside of the municipality description (e.g. local service districts; public-private partnership boards that manage community facilities).
• Not-for-profit organizations.

Eligible Indigenous Recipients include:

• Indigenous Governing Body
• A federally or provincially incorporated not-for-profit organization whose mandate is to improve Indigenous outcomes, organizations serving Indigenous communities living in urban centers and First Nations living off reserve; and
• Indigenous development corporations.