Alberta Blue Cross: Built Together Grants

Alberta Blue Cross: Built Together Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Alberta Blue Cross
Amount: US $50,000
Last Updated: August 01, 2025

Summary

The Alberta Blue Cross Built Together Grants support Albertans in creating spaces for active living, such as outdoor gyms, skate parks, and playgrounds. This initiative emphasizes community accessibility and promotes health and wellness, particularly for children. Eligible applicants include non-profit organizations and community groups focused on enhancing public spaces. The program aims for equitable distribution of funding across diverse communities, ensuring all Albertans have opportunities to engage in active lifestyles.

Overview

Built Together Our Built Together program helps Albertans build spaces for active living in their community. Building spaces for active living Our Built Together program helps Albertans build spaces for active living in their community. Whether it be a skate park, playground, outdoor gym or sports court, we're giving back to Albertans and helping them live their best lives. What do we fund? Built Together funds infrastructure projects that foster active living. Eligible projects include but are not limited to outdoor gyms, cycling paths, construction or replacement of playgrounds, skate parks, and outdoor rinks. Programs must be publicly accessible and free of membership charge.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Community leagues, school councils, municipalities or other non-profit community groups or organizations with new projects in need of funding are eligible to apply. Organizations must provide services without regard to race, religion, creed, gender or sexual orientation.We’re focused on ensuring grants are equitably distributed on a regional basis over the life of the program. To ensure province-wide representation, we split grants with 1 in each of the following communities: Edmonton, Calgary, a secondary city, a rural community and an Indigenous community with a focus on ensuring grants are equitably distributed on a regional basis over the life of the program.

Ineligibility

The following types of organizations are not eligible for fundingreligious or sectarian organizations,political organizations,competitive sports teams or private clubs, andcontract fundraisers or lobbyists.