Alberta Wildfires 2024 - Grants for Community Organizations
The Canadian Red Cross offered grant funding to eligible community organizations that were directly supporting the recovery of communities impacted by the 2024 Alberta Wildfires.
Closed Grant Programs
The Canadian Red Cross is no longer accepting applications for any grant programs related to the Alberta 2024 Wildfires.
Recovery grants were available for projects or initiatives that contributed to recovery from the 2024 Alberta Wildfires. Projects could be to re-establish, scale or adapt services to meet needs for support or address wildfire-related impacts not covered by other funding sources.
Winter Community Grants were available for projects, activities or events that contributed to recovery and community connectedness and wellbeing during the fall and winter seasons.
Summer Grants and Back-to-School Grants are now closed and no longer accepting applications.
Holiday Grants were available for projects, activities or events that contribute to recovery and community connectedness and wellbeing during the 2024 holiday season.
Funded initiatives
To increase staff capacity through increased hours and training to address increased emergency needs.
Increase access to perishable food for Jasper Foodbank clients.
Support physical and mental wellbeing by providing opportunities to engage with the outdoors.
- For the Jasper Jr and Sr High School to address food insecurity.
- In support of École Jasper Elementary School's “Welcome Back to the 2025-2026 School Year” project, a welcome back event to foster community connectedness and belonging at the beginning of the new school year.
- Back-to-school community and mental wellbeing activities and training for displaced Jasper residents living in Hinton and Hinton residents directly impacted by the 2024 Alberta Wildfires.
- To host a series of community gatherings and education sessions aimed at wellbeing.
Respond to the increased demand for sheltering and care of animals evacuated from Jasper.
To host a series of community gatherings and education sessions aimed at wellbeing.
To ensure reliable food recovery and distribution in Hinton and Jasper.
- Art programs for community members of Hinton and Jasper to create works of art that will be combined into a patchwork mural commemorating the impacts of the 2024 Alberta Wildfires and address wildfire anxieties.
- Back to School project that developed a lending library of common school items, such as tablets, scientific calculators, etc.
- Provide arts and cultural activities to support community engagement and recovery.
- To offer a series of arts-based activities to Jasper residents and those displaced in Hinton.
- Support for the Two Communities One Heart project, which addressed isolation and disconnection by providing a series of arts-based activities to Jasper residents and those displaced in Hinton during the winter months.
- Youth-Art-Hope, an arts engagement project designed for youth.
- Promote healing and reverence for nature through Creative Fire/BUZZfest 2025, featuring artists’ investigations of the deconstructive and reconstructive potential of wildfire.
- To support BuzzFest 2026 which encourages community to create art based on their reflections on community recovery since the wildfires
- Provide holiday-themed events and activities through the Santa’s Anonymous program.
- The Cinnamon Bear Picnic fostered community connection and encouraged involvement in post-2024 Alberta Wildfires community restoration efforts.
- To build community connections through holiday-themed events and activities, and provide aid to Jasper families.
To support an 8-week Junior Curling League project to develop skills and build connections.
A project to expand and transform the existing play area at École Jasper Elementary School, increasing its capacity to serve students and members of the surrounding community.
- Offer inclusive events to engage newcomers, seasonal staff, and long-time residents to build belonging and support healing.
- Foster community connectedness and wellness in Jasper this summer through on the land guided activities engaging newcomers, seasonal staff and long-time residents.
- Support for Jasper residents and Temporary Foreign Workers to help meet ongoing social, emotional, and practical needs following the 2024 Alberta Wildfires.
- To host a series of simple winter activities that support emotional recovery.
- A community lunch and flag raising ceremony provided a space for community connectedness and healing in the aftermath of the 2024 wildfires and its ongoing impacts.
- To support cultural activities and distribution of food hampers at Handog ng Pasko (Offerings of Christmas) event.
- Purchase temporary facilities to allow for the continuation of the services offered by the Jasper Food Bank.
- Support children by establishing school-based breakfast programs at Ecole Jasper Elementary and Ecole Desrochers.
- To address food insecurity during the holiday season through food hampers.
- Extended hours to offer more services to the Jasper community.
To support a free, inclusive single day community event to promote physical activity, mental wellbeing, and social connectedness.
In support of food rescue activities in partnership with the Hinton Food Bank, as well as the promotion of community gardening activities.
To organize public activities at the arena over the winter period.
- Support development and implementation of recovery plans and a coordination framework.
- Support to conduct a feasibility study to explore the concept of a Jasper Staff Housing Cooperative.
To provide engagement and social activities while strengthening organizational capacity as recovery from the wildfires continues.
- Provide transportation to Jasperites living temporarily outside Jasper to participate in community events.
- To enhance supports available to interim housing residents through winter.
Provide food and community space to support community recovery, and repair damage incurred during the fires.
- Foster connectedness by providing a senior dinner for Jasperites.
- To address the social isolation and disconnection of seniors in the winter months.
In support of to the Skatepark's opening, offer a community meal during the grand opening event and build a lending library of skateboard park equipment supported by weekly drop-in mentoring sessions offered by Skatepark volunteers.
- 2024 - Increase community connections through the Festive Tea and Singalong.
- 2025 - To host a Festive Tea and Singalong event to celebrate community resilience.
- Engage and support Jasperites during the holiday season through the Festival of Trees.
- To hold a community-wide coffee hour to share Jasper-focused historical presentations.
Support the psychosocial recovery of Jasper's francophone community following the 2024 wildfires, by improving access to mental health and community support services adapted to the francophone reality.
- Provide weekly community dinners for Jasperites for three months.
- Build staff capacity through training and skill development while leveraging existing spaces, local expertise and cross-sector relationships to activate and maximize the use and enjoyment of recreational and community spaces.
- Indigenous focused healing and cultural events designed to foster shared connection and recovery.
- Stewardship Day activities that allowed for the restore community spaces with vibrant new plant life and community gatherings.
- One-Year Commemorative Events series focused on connectedness and healing from indigenous and community centered perspectives.
- The Spiritual Wellness and Community Healing program hosts free monthly sessions promoting spiritual wellness and community connection to Jasper residents as they recover from the impacts of the 2024 Alberta Wildfires.
To develop and implement a support plan for front-facing staff across worksites.
Increase access to transportation support for those living temporarily outside of Jasper.
- To increase departmental capacity to address utility service needs.
- Support to strengthen the Municipality’s capacity to deliver recovery-focused services by improving the safety, resilience, and continuity of essential municipal operations and facilities impacted by the 2024 wildfires.
Supporting the delivery of a series of free, low-barrier winter workshops and small-group sessions in Jasper and Hinton to support social connection, emotional wellbeing, harm-reduction education, and stress management for community members.
Support delivery of its Jasper Wellness Recovery Plan, ensuring that community needs are met.
Support for the organization to secure its grazing fields and to be better equipped to house livestock in response to and recovery from the wildfires.
Provide psychosocial support at the Humanitarian Service Centre in Hinton during the evacuation of Jasper.
In support of the Art of Belonging & "Connecting Roots" Peer Group project, to support displaced Jasper residents currently living in Hinton and local Hinton residents for peer support sessions, art workshops, and a community showcase.
- The Things That Grew project marks the one-year anniversary of the 2024 Alberta Wildfires through local community collaboration and engagement with an artist to design and install a commemorative mural, offering space for healing, connection, and reflection.
- Recovery In Colour project engaging local, regional, and Indigenous artists alongside community members to transform interim housing areas and recovery infrastructure through public art.