Grants & Awards

The Community Recognition awards, formally, Unsung Hero Awards are meant to acknowledge those individuals who go above and beyond to help build and shape their community. This includes helping bolster the work of social groups and organizations that offer recreational, cultural, or charitable services to the community.

If you know of someone who is deserving of such an award, please nominate them by filling out the online form below. The nomination deadline is Friday, April 7, 2023 at 4:00PM.  

• Online Form

• Past Award Winners (PDF)

Recreation & Culture | 506-292-6174 | adam.grant@fredericton.ca

The City of Fredericton is accepting nominations for its new Arts Achievement Award. The award, an action item from the 2014 Cultural Plan, was created to recognize outstanding achievement in, or contribution to, the arts and cultural landscape in the city.

The Arts Achievement Award will celebrate cultural achievement and excellence by individuals, organizations and / or businesses in all areas of the arts.  There will be up to a maximum of three awards presented each year.

Application are accepted anytime

• Nomination Criteria & Form

Fredericton Recreation, Tourism & Community Engagement Department, Tourism and Events Division I 506-292-6895 I artsaward@fredericton.ca

An exciting awards program which encourages healthy eating and physical activity for youth aged 3 – 12

This popular activity awards program will keep youth active and eating well all summer. Youth receive points for each task completed and upon reaching minimum point levels earn bronze, silver or gold medals! Sample requirements include:

• Have a pop free day

• Go for a ½ hour walk

• Do a family activity outdoors for 20 minutes

This program will be held from June 3 to August 9. The program is offered free-of-charge to all interested youth. To learn more email adam.grant@fredericton.ca, contact the City of Fredericton Recreation, Culture & Community Development Division at 506-292-6174

• Registration

Two Intercultural Awards are given to an individual and to a group, organization or business that has demonstrated a sustained commitment and effort to enhance Fredericton’s cultural diversity, to promote interculturalism, to help combat prejudice, and/or to assist newcomers and immigrants in integrating to life in the community. 

Here are some examples of the activities for which you can nominate a person, group, organization or business: 

• Advocacy: Advocating for an immigration issue, such as recognition of foreign credentials, federal regulations that affect provincial immigration (migration caps), provincial immigration programs, support services, etc.

• Arts: Creating/organizing an exhibition, a film or streetscape art that promotes cultural harmony and understanding.

• Awareness: Involvement in a project, initiative, service, or media that promotes awareness of issues related to promoting cultural diversity, interculturalism and combating prejudice.

• Business: Leveraging or developing specific linguistic and cultural skills of employees to create and market products and services, thus enhancing the vibrancy of Fredericton’s entrepreneurial community.

• Employers: Providing training and resources to ensure workers of all cultural backgrounds will be safe, productive and aware of their rights and responsibilities.

• First Nation Relations & Culture: Fostering connections between members of the Wolastoqewiyik First Nation and the non-indigenous communities in Fredericton.

• Foreign direct investment: Attracting FDI, through access to a global network, with a positive economic impact on Fredericton’s economy.   

• Francophone Relations & Culture: Helping promote Francophone culture within immigrant communities in the city. 

• Gender & Sexual Minorities: Creating awareness of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit, Queer, or Questioning issues among immigrant communities.

• International Students: Building connections between international students and the Fredericton community to promote student retention and workforce development.

• Recreation & Sport: Encouraging the involvement of immigrants of various ages and origins in local recreation and sport.

• Seniors & Persons with Different Abilities: Providing appropriate care and support for immigrants with different abilities or who are older adults while helping to combat social isolation in those two groups.

• Settlement: Assisting newcomers with the immigration process, hosting prospective residents, or helping facilitate community involvement so that they may become fully participating members of society.

• Tutoring: Developing or delivering programs/activities that build skills or knowledge of immigrants to participate fully in all aspects of our community.

• Volunteerism: Recognizing volunteer contributions to promote multiculturalism and interculturalism.

• Women: Supporting the participation of immigrant women in leadership roles within our society.

• Youth: Encouraging immigrant youth engagement and leadership within our society.

• Other.:Any other category that you think is pertinent to this award.

  • News Release

  • Online Form (preferred)

  • Printable Form (DOC) (available at the Fredericton Recreation office; to be hand-delivered to 371 Queen Street, suite 1010, on weekdays between 8:30 am to 4:30 pm)

  • Nomination Deadline: Friday, October 2, 2020 at 8 am

  • The award will be presented virtually at a City Council meeting in the fall (date to be announced).

  • Past Award Winners (PDF)

Recreation, Culture & Community Development | 506-471 -3694 | community.development@fredericton.ca

The 2023 submission deadline has passed.

The Arts, Culture and Heritage Funding Program of the City of Fredericton is designed to encourage new projects or activities in the creative arts, culture and heritage sectors through the provision of small grants to eligible organizations. Grants are awarded through a jury process. 

Please read the Funding Application Guidelines below before completing the Application Form.

• Application Form and Funding Guidelines: PDF / Word (DOC)

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Friday, February 10, 2023 at 4:30 pm. 

Questions may be directed to Culture at 506-471-3378 or culture@fredericton.ca.

The City of Fredericton's application process for its 2024 Community Funding Grants, Strategic Partner Capital Grants, and the new category of Climate Change Action Grants is now closed.

Community Funding Grants 2024

The focus of the Community Funding Grants is to encourage the growth and stability of non-profit organizations in the city whose purpose and activities align to achieve the outcomes of a more livable and economically viable community.

Funding may be made available for festivals & events; educational & cultural development; recreation & tourism program support; arts, culture & heritage; as well as festival & event innovation and greening.

The grant must be applied to a specific program or service or used as capital funding for the construction of facilities or the purchase of equipment that will benefit to the community at large.

Past applicants are reminded that successful applications received under any of the grant categories for the same purpose or event are only considered once and limited to one annual grant from the City of Fredericton.

The City’s Municipal Finance and Corporate Administration has approved, in principle, an amount of $368,000 for the 2024 Community Funding Grants, up $25,000 from 2023 to account for inflation.

Online Application Form

• Last Year's Allocation (PDF)

Strategic Partner Capital Grants 2024

A total of $300,000 is available to community groups under the 2024 Strategic Partner Capital Grants, from which City Council has already committed $50,000 in funding for 2024 to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Capital Campaign.

Strategic Partner Capital Grants are intended to encourage the growth and stability of strong, sustainable non-profit organizations whose purpose and services fit within the City’s municipal mandate.

Funding will support significant physical infrastructure capital projects, which must align with the City’s Municipal Plan and help achieve the outcomes of the City’s eight program result areas:  Corporate, Economic Vitality, Environmental Stewardship, Governance & Civic Engagement, Livable Community, Mobility, Public Safety, and Sustainable Infrastructure.

Online Application Form

• Last Year's Allocation (PDF)

Climate Change Action Grants 2024

The Climate Change Action Grants are a new category being introduced for 2024. The intent of these grants is to support non-profit organizations in carrying out projects, programs, or activities that align with actions in the City’s Community Energy and Emissions Plan or Climate Change Adaptation Plan. Eligible initiatives should fall under one of the following categories:

• Energy efficiency or energy source shift in buildings initiatives
• Transportation mode shift (active transportation, public transit, e-mobility) initiatives
• Waste reduction or circular economy initiatives
• Climate change adaptation – education & outreach initiatives
• Climate change adaptation – capital project

Online Application Form

The deadline for eligible groups to apply to the Community Funding Grants, Strategic Partner Capital Grants and Climate Change Action Grants is Friday, October 13, 2023 at 4:30 pm.