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Green and Inclusive Community Buildings (GICB) Program │Infrastructure Canada

October 16, 2024

Value

Small and medium retrofits: eligible cost from $100,000 to $2,999,999; Large retrofits and new builds: eligible costs ranging from $3 million to $25 million.

Description

The Green and Inclusive Community Buildings (GICB) program aims to build more community buildings and improve existing ones – in particular in areas with populations experiencing higher needs – while also making the buildings more energy efficient, lower carbon, more resilient, and higher performing. This five-year $1.5 billion program will support green and accessible retrofits, repairs or upgrades of existing public community buildings and the construction of new publicly-accessible community buildings that serve high-needs, underserved communities across Canada.

Eligible Applicants

  • A municipal 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, such as water management, economic development or tourism agencies)
    • A provincial or territorial organization that delivers municipal services (e.g. community health services)
    • Any other form of local governance that exists outside of the municipality description (e.g. local service districts)
  • Federally or provincially incorporated not-for-profit organizations and registered charities
  • Indigenous recipients:
    • Indigenous Governing Body, including the following:
      • A band council within the meaning of section 2 of the Indian Act
      • A First Nation, Inuit or Métis government or authority established pursuant to a Self-Government Agreement or a Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement between His Majesty the King in right of Canada and an Indigenous people of Canada, that has been approved, given effect and declared valid by federal legislation
      • A First Nation, Inuit or Métis government that is established by or under legislation whether federal or provincial that incorporates a governance structure
    • A federally or provincially incorporated not-for-profit organization whose primary mandate is to serve Indigenous peoples (e.g. Friendship centres, aboriginal women’s associations)
    • Not-for-profit Indigenous development corporations

Eligible Expenses

The Green and Inclusive Community Buildings program is accepting applications as follows:

Small and medium retrofits:

  • Eligible applicants with small and medium-sized projects to retrofit existing community buildings ranging in total eligible cost from $100,000 to $2,999,999 can apply from August 1, 2024 until October 16, 2024, 15:00 ET.

 

Large retrofits and new builds:

  • Eligible applicants with large projects to retrofit existing community buildings or projects to build new community buildings with total eligible costs ranging from $3 million to $25 million can apply from September 4, 2024 until October 16, 2024, 15:00 ET.

Deadline Date

Until October 16, 2024, 15:00 ET.

Contact

Contact Name: Green and Inclusive Community Buildings

E-mail Address: gicbp-pbcvi@infc.gc.ca

Website: https://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/gicb-bcvi/index-eng.html

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