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About Give Green Canada

Nora Layard

Give Green Canada is a collaborative Tides Canada Initiatives project that is working nationally to increase donations to environmental and conservation organizations. Canada's environmental organizations have identified the lack of sustained funding as the number one barrier to working at full capacity to address the urgent issues of our time. Fighting climate change, habitat loss, pollution, and ecosystem degradation all take resources. And yet, less than 2% of all charitable donations go to environment groups. (2007)

Initiated in British Columbia in 2000 as the Green Legacies Project, Give Green Canada is now a national project that promotes gift planning as a key solution to long term funding concerns. GiveGreenCanada.ca is the first step in developing a national campaign to urge Canadians to give more and more deeply.

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Project Steering Committee & Advisors

A project of Tides Canada Initiatives, the partners include Tides Canada Foundation, Stewardship Canada, Stewardship Centre of BC, and Environment Canada (Ecological Gifts Program). Advisors to the project include the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, Reseau de Milieux Naturels, and Canada's major environmental organizations. 

For information about the project, please contact:

Natasha van Bentum, CFRE
Project Director
250-477-3474 Pacific Time

Give Green Canada Sponsors

We thank our 2009 sponsors and private donors for their support and interest in the successful launch and delivery of Give Green Canada.


We also thank photographers David Denning, Doug Fryett, Jonathan Grant, Debbie Kelsall, Nora Layard, Rene Langevin, Janice Link, Susanne Rautio, and Gary Tipper for the use of their beautiful images to enliven this website!