The Heritage Community Investment Program invests funds—provided by the City of Edmonton—into the stabilization, increased professionalism and innovation of heritage in Edmonton, for Edmontonians.
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Individual practitioners and heritage organizations are encouraged to apply for funding through the Career Development (up to $4,000 for individuals to gain new skills and knowledge) and Change Capital (up to $20,000 for organizations to develop internal capacity and new strategies that build resilience) for 2023 funding.
Deadline: Rolling intake
The FIRE Grant program (Funding Indigenous Resurgence in Edmonton) provides funding assistance—up to $10,000—to Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) individuals and organizations to support projects that help tell important stories about our community.
Deadline: TBA
The Career Development stream replaces previous HCIP streams Online Learning and Travel. The Career Development Grant provides funding assistance for individual heritage practitioners to gain new skills and knowledge to support the development of heritage work in Edmonton. All grant forms for this stream are now available.
Deadline: Rolling intake (apply anytime for 2023 funds)
Now known as Change Capital Project Grants, this stream provides funding to heritage organizations – up to $20,000, with no matching requirement – to undertake projects that develop internal capacity and new strategies that build resilience within the heritage sector. All grant forms for this stream are now available.
Deadline: Rolling intake (apply anytime for 2023 funds)
Community Impact Project Grants are designed to provide assistance—to a maximum of $20,000—for individuals or non-profit organizations to undertake projects that preserve, research, document, interpret, celebrate, and raise awareness of the history and heritage of Edmonton.
Deadline: TBA
Provides operating funds to museums, archives, and other heritage organizations so they can research, preserve, and interpret Edmonton’s heritage. Please carefully review the complete guidelines, as they have changed.
Deadline: TBA
Project Accelerator grants provide funding support to individuals and organizations undertaking small-scale heritage projects that tell Edmonton stories. Some aspects of this grant stream have recently been updated. All grant forms for this stream are now available.
Deadline: TBA
Research and Planning grants provide funding support to individuals and organizations to complete preliminary research or planning towards a larger heritage project. This stream replaces Individual Seed funding. All grant forms for this stream are now available.
Deadline: TBA
The Heritage Writers’ Reserve Award is an annual award that recognizes the achievements of one Edmonton-based writer, researcher, or historian. The award is intended to be used to advance the publication and dissemination of a book project that explores aspects of Edmonton’s history and heritage.
Deadline: TBA
Our grants help illuminate Edmonton’s heritage… here are some of our success stories:
Richard Wood and Joshua Nhan were awarded a Research & Planning grant from EHC’s Heritage Community Investment Program (HCIP) in 2021 to embark on the Edmonton Culinary Heritage Project.
The Edmonton Heritage Council (EHC) announces Adriana Davies as the inaugural recipient of the Heritage Writers’ Reserve award.
EHC members are invited to celebrate an extraordinary year of Edmonton heritage