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FCM's Green Municipal Fund offers grants for feasibility studies and field tests that seek to demonstrate the potential of a project to improve the environmental effectiveness of municipal operations related to brownfields, energy, transportation, waste or water.

Initiatives	Available funding	Assessment criteria	Timeline
Feasibility studies Field tests	Grants for up to 50% of costs to a maximum of $350,000	Environmental, social and economic benefit Knowledge value Project management	Six to nine months from application to approval

*See the Application Guidelines.

Eligibility

Municipal governments and their partners are eligible for grants for feasibility studies and field tests.

Key prerequisites

The municipal council must have adopted a sustainable community plan or sector plan that includes sector-specific goals or targets. Specific prerequisites apply for some sectors and subsectors.

Application and approval process

Applicants can submit an Intent to Apply at any time of the year. Applicants from the Province of Quebec must submit their Intent to Apply to the Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire (MAMROT) rather than to GMF*. Once an Intent to Apply has been accepted, GMF will invite eligible applicants to submit a Detailed Application.

Applications are rated by a Peer Review Committee then reviewed by the GMF Council which makes a recommendation to the FCM National Board of Directors. It takes from six to nine months from the time an Intent to Apply is accepted to when the FCM board makes a final decision on the full Detailed Application.

_{*MAMROT analyzes applications and passes a recommendation on to GMF within 15 working days.}

Reporting

FCM awards grants in part based on the potential for creating new knowledge and replicating leading approaches. All grant recipients are required to report on their studies and the lessons they learned through the initiative.

These reports are a cornerstone of GMF; they will create opportunities for funding recipients to share their lessons and for all communities to learn from these leading examples and to start their own studies one step ahead.

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