Funding Programs
Browse GNWT funding programs
You can narrow down funding opportunities based on who you are (eligibility) and what kind of funding you are looking for (category).
Agri-food Funding
A partnership with the Government of Canada to create a sustainable, inclusive and innovative agriculture and agri-food sector.
Artist to Market Program
Funding for selected cohorts of NWT artists to showcase and/or sell their work to new markets.
Arts Operating Fund
The Arts Operating Fund provides financial and developmental support to arts organizations that operate year-round in the NWT.
Arts Project Fund - Large
The Large Arts Project Fund provides arts organizations with funding for large-scale art projects and events (e.g., festivals, exhibitions, residencies, workshop series, etc.).
Arts Project Grant - Medium
The Medium Arts Project Grant provides $5,001 to $15,000 in funding for medium-scale arts projects and events.
Arts Project Grant - Small
Funding for artists, craftspeople and small groups for the creation and presentation of small arts projects.
Business Intelligence and Networking
This program can help connect you with the information and contacts you need to build your business.
Canada Housing Infrastructure Funding for Communities
Funding for essential water, wastewater and solid waste projects to support new housing development in the Northwest Territories.
Canada-NWT Housing Benefit (CNHB)
The Canada-NWT Housing Benefit is a federally funded program available to help with rental costs for households in the Northwest Territories paying more than 30 percent of their gross income on rent.
Child Care Fee Reduction
Funding to licensed family day homes to reduce the child care fees they charge to families.
Children and Youth Resiliency Program
The program offers funding for organizations that provide services that focuses on healthy childhood development, physical literacy, resiliency, and mental health to people under 25 years of age.
Commercial Fishery Support Program (Pilot Program)
A program that helps the fishers to defer costs, supplement prices, and encourage recruitment.
Community Access Program
Funding for communities toward the construction or maintenance of access roads, trails, docks and wharves.
Community Economic Development (SEED)
Funding to local communities and organizations looking to further develop their economies, advance regional economic development initiatives, and/or invest in events promoting economic opportunities.
Community Government Hosting Evacuees Grant
Provides financial assistance to community governments that host evacuees who do not go to a designated Evacuation Centre.
Community Harvesters Assistance Program
Funding for Local Wildlife Committees and Renewable Resource Councils to offset costs of harvesting activities for their members.
Community Search and Rescue Funding
Funding to support community organized searches for missing persons in the Northwest Territories.
Community Suicide Prevention Fund
Funding for community-based suicide prevention activities in the Northwest Territories.
Community Tourism Coordinator Program
This program provides funding to qualified organizations to hire and maintain community tourism coordinators.
Community Tourism Infrastructure Contribution Program
Funding to community governments and non-government organizations to support new and innovative infrastructure projects.
Community Training Partnerships
This program provides support for third-party organizations to deliver community and regional activities aimed at increasing skills development, including workplace essential skills, in the labour market.
Community Wildfire Preparedness Day Grant
Funding for communities, neighbourhoods, and organizations to run FireSmart events and activities.
Corporate Mining Incentive Program
Funding to exploration companies who propose new exploration projects or are already carrying out NWT mineral exploration work.
Dedicated Wage Funding
Dedicated Funding to support wages for early childhood educators employed in licensed centre-based programs and employer related costs.
Developmental (Needs Assessment) Fund
The Early Childhood Infrastructure Fund’s Developmental (Needs Assessment) Fund provides one-time funding up to a maximum of $15,000 to eligible entities to undertake child care needs assessment in their community.
Disaster Financial Assistance
After a disaster, the GNWT may implement the Disaster Assistance policy to provide disaster financial assistance to individuals, small businesses, and non-profit organizations. This page provides information on how to apply for disaster financial assistance.
Early Childhood Infrastructure Fund
Funding for projects that preserve or expand existing infrastructure of licensed centre-based child care spaces or to create new licensed centre-based child care spaces in NWT communities.
Early Learning and Child Care Scholarship
Early Learning and Child Care Scholarships are awarded to Northwest Territories (NWT) part-time and full-time post-secondary students enrolled in a diploma or degree program in early childhood development.
Early Years Community Program funding
Early Years Community Program Funding promotes access to early learning opportunities.
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program
This program supports the installation of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in the Northwest Territories.
Emergency Evacuation Relief Program
One-time financial support to help mitigate the costs associated with evacuations due to natural disasters such as wildfires and flooding.
Emergency Repairs
Funding is available year-round for emergency situations like freeze-ups and furnace failures.
Employee Training Program
This program offers funding to employers to offset the cost of training employees.
Employment Assistance Services
Employment Assistance Services provides career and employment assistance targeted to local and regional needs.
Entrepreneur support
Support for qualified applicants to start businesses, improve their capacity, and help communities expand their economy.
Five-Year Retention Funding
Retention funding for licensed family day homes that have continuously operated for five or more years in the Northwest Territories.
Flexible Operating Funding
Funding to licensed centre-based programs, empowering them to make program-level decisions that align with their unique needs, such as mortgage, rent, utilities, wages, or professional fees.
Gender Equity Grant
The Gender Equity Grant offers funding to support community-based projects designed to enhance gender equity across the Northwest Territories.
Gender-Based Violence Community Initiatives Fund
The Gender-Based Violence Community Initiatives Fund provides funding for community-based initiatives across the Northwest Territories that support the implementation of the National Action Plan to End Gender Based Violence.
GHG Grant Program for Government
This funding program is designed to support projects and initiatives by municipal, Indigenous and territorial governments that help to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Grant Program
This program helps fund projects that reduce or replace fossil fuel use and lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the NWT.
Ground Ambulance and Highway Rescue Services Funding
Funding to help support the delivery of community-based emergency response, ground ambulance, and rescue service.
Guaranteed Advance (GMVF)
This program provides guaranteed cash advances to trappers in the Northwest Territories (NWT) who are delivering prime fur and beaver castors for sale.
Harvester’s Wildfire Damage Assistance program
Financial assistance to renewable resource harvesters in the Northwest Territories for damage or loss resulting from wildfire.
Health and Safety Funding for Centre-based Programs
Funding to help licensed centre-based programs with the cost of repairs and maintenance required by annual health and fire safety inspections.
Health and Safety Funding for Family Day Homes
Funding to help licensed family day homes with the cost of repairs and maintenance required by annual health and fire safety inspections.
Healthy Choices Fund
Funding for health promotion and prevention activities that support NWT residents.
High Performance Athlete Grant
Funding for high performance NWT athletes to assist with the costs associated with training and competing in their chosen sport.
Home Purchase Program
If you are a first-time homebuyer, the home purchase program can help you purchase a modest home by providing a portion of your down payment.
Home-based Operating Funding
Funding to assist family day homes with day-to-day costs.
Homelessness Assistance Funding
Homelessness Assistance Fund (HAF) is one-time emergency funding that is available if you are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless, or have an opportunity to access stable housing.
Homeownership Initiative
This funding is available to Housing NWT clients living in public housing to help them purchase their rental unit to become a homeowner.
Hunters and Trappers Disaster Compensation
Compensation to traditional harvesters in the NWT for loss or damage to equipment or assets due to natural disasters.
Income Assistance for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities
Financial assistance to Northwest Territories (NWT) seniors and persons with disabilities to help meet their basic needs.
Income Assistance Program
This program provides financial assistance to Northwest Territories residents to help meet basic and enhanced needs. The program encourages and supports greater self-reliance to improve the quality of lives.
Indigenous Cultural Organizations Contributions
This program provided funding for the administration and operation of organizations that undertake the maintenance, promotion and development of traditional knowledge and culture in the NWT.
Indigenous Language Revitalization Scholarship
Indigenous language revitalization scholarships are awarded to Northwest Territories students enrolled in certificate, diploma, or degree programs that supports Indigenous language revitalization.
Interim Resource Management Assistance (IRMA) funding
Funding for Indigenous communities in unsettled land claim areas to participate in land and resource management.
Interpreter Career Pathway Program
The Interpreter Career Pathway Program is a new pilot program that will train fluent Indigenous language speakers to become interpreters at the Northwest Territories (NT) Legislative Assembly.
Job Creation Partnership
This program provides support to organizations to deliver local activities, which either include a work experience component, or guarantee employment at the end of the project.
Major Projects Fund
The Early Childhood Infrastructure Fund (ECIF) Major Projects Fund is for projects that expand existing infrastructure of licensed centre-based child care spaces or create new licensed centre-based child care spaces in NWT communities.
Market Housing Program
The Market Housing Program provides additional rental housing options in smaller communities, where housing options are limited.
Mental Wellness and Addictions Recovery Fund
Funding to help deliver culturally relevant, community-based options for people living with mental health and addictions in the NWT.
Micro business
Targeted support and funding for micro businesses to help your project get off the ground; regardless of industry.
Minor Projects Fund
Minor Projects Fund provides eligible organizations up to $250,000 in funding for accessibility upgrades, space preservation projects, renovations, and retrofits that create new child care spaces.
Mobility Modifications
Funding to improve the accessibility of homes for people with a disability.
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Funding
This funding is available to support Indigenous Governments and Indigenous organizations to plan and deliver National Day for Truth and Reconciliation events in communities and locations across the Northwest Territories.
New Child Care Spaces Fund for Centre-based Programs
The New Child Care Spaces Fund provides funding to create new licensed early learning and child care programs (licensed programs).
New Child Care Spaces Fund for Family Day Homes
Funding to help start a new licensed family day home.
NGO Stabilization Fund
Recognizing that many NWT NGOs deliver critical services and programs that support GNWT policy objectives, such as homelessness, addictions support, and shelters for women and families, the NGO Stabilization Fund was established in 2009.
Northern Food Development Program
Program to increase local food production and availability of northern food products for northern consumers.
NWT Child Benefit
The Northwest Territories (NWT) Child Benefit provides low-to-modest income families with monthly cash payments to assist with the costs of raising children.
NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program (NWT CIMP)
NWT CIMP coordinates, conducts, and funds research and reporting about the environment in the NWT.
NWT Film Rebate Program
This program is intended to encourage film producers to choose the Northwest Territories (NWT) as their film location by rebating a percentage of the money they spend in the area.
NWT Senior Citizen Supplementary Benefit
The NWT Senior Citizen Supplementary Benefit (SCSB) provides financial assistance to low income NWT seniors to help pay for living costs.
NWT Youth Corps
NWT Youth Corps supports programs that target non-mainstream, at-risk, and out of school NWT youth under 25 years of age.
Preventative Maintenance
Funding for preventative maintenance checks and minor servicing or repairs.
Prime Fur Bonus Program
This program offers an incentive to trappers to deliver high quality, well-handled pelts and beaver castors for sale.
Prospecting Support Program
A program to stimulate grassroots mineral exploration in the NWT.
Prospector Mining Incentive Program
For prospectors and exploration companies who propose new exploration projects or are already carrying out mineral exploration work.
Regional Youth Sports Events
Funding for sport and recreation organizations and schools to organize and host regional youth sport events in the NWT.
Scholarships
The Alfred Moses Memorial Scholarship and the Tom Williams Memorial Scholarship are given to NWT students entering into post-secondary education in a field related to Housing supports.
Sector support
A program to fund business in sectors identified as important for tourism, sustainability, import replacement, and E-commerce.
Self-Employment Program
This program provides support to individuals who are starting a small business or taking over an existing business in which they did not have prior ownership.
Senior Home Heating Subsidy
The Senior Home Heating Subsidy provides financial assistance to low-to-modest income seniors to help with the cost of heating their homes.
Seniors Aging in Place
Funding for residents 60 and older to lower home energy costs or to do home repairs.
Seniors and Disabled Persons Property Tax Relief
Funding to help seniors and people with disabilities pay less or no property tax.
Seniors Home Repair
Funding for residents aged 60+ to complete home repairs and upgrades that support safe, independent living.
Shelter Enhancement Fund
Building repair and program support funding for homeless shelters.
Skills Development Program
This program provides support for eligible individuals to participate in short-term training opportunities for up to 52 weeks, which upgrade or develop essential employability skills.
Small Community Homelessness Fund
Funding for community projects that look to address homelessness.
Social Housing Program
Social Housing refers to a rental program that provides income-based subsidies for the rental of housing for residents most in need.
Special Events Fund
Financial assistance to NWT Indigenous Governments and Indigenous organizations for annual general assemblies, special assemblies, and other special events such as National Indigenous Peoples Day.
Strategic Investments
This program provides funding to NWT businesses looking to making large investments in their company in order to expand and grow their business.
Strategic Workforce Initiative
This program supports organizations with labour market activities that promote labour force development, workforce adjustments, and human resources planning.
Student Financial Assistance
This program provides financial assistance to eligible Northwest Territories (NWT) residents to assist with post-secondary education-related expenses.
Supporting Child Inclusion and Participation - Inclusion Funding
Funding for licensed centre-based ELCC programs to obtain the necessary supports for children with diverse developmental needs to access early learning.
Take a Kid Trapping Funding
This funding program is designed to introduce school age youth in the Northwest Territories to the traditional harvesting practices of hunting, trapping, fishing and outdoor survival.
Tourism Business Mentorship Program
A program to provide applicants with an opportunity and financial support to learn skills from experienced mentors.
Tourism Product Diversification and Marketing Program
This program provides funding to help re-invent, improve or expand your tourism product and operation.
Tourism Training Fund
Supporting skill development for individuals working the tourism sector.
Trades and Occupation Wage Subsidy Program
This program provides financial support to employers to hire and train skilled apprentices and occupation trainees who are registered with the Apprenticeship, Trade and Occupation Certification Program.
Trappers Grubstake Program
This program is designed to support and offset some start-up seasonal costs for trappers.
Wage Subsidy Program
This program provides funding to employers to hire and train Northwest Territories residents.
Women's Initiatives Grant
To provide one-time-only funding for special projects that supports the cultural, economic, political, and social participation of women in the Northwest Territories.
Youth Centres Initiative
Funding to assist with the operating costs of youth centres or other community-based facilities in the Northwest Territories (NWT)
Youth Contributions Program
The Youth Contribution Program provides funding to community governments or registered non-profit territorial, regional and community-based organizations that are providing specific programs or services to youth.
Youth Mentorship for Tourism Program
A program providing applicants with opportunity and financial support to learn skills from an experienced mentor.