Creative Action for Community
The Bow Valley's
Community Foundation
Support Jasper wildfire response and recovery
Purpose
Banff Canmore Foundation connects resources and opportunities to activate community potential, enhance quality of life and create belonging for all.
The farthest reaching grant program in the Bow Valley, these grants channel local residents' support to projects with the greatest potential to address our most pressing challenges and to drive positive change.
Bow Valley Vital Signs offers comprehensive reports on critical issues to inspire creative action. Read our thematic reports on how Housing and Mental Health & Wellbeing impact our community.
Local Solutions in a Time of Crisis
Civil Society in the Bow Valley has identified housing as a top priority but empowerment is critical. BCF is working with partners on collaborative solutions.
Supporting the Community Grants Program and the Foundation’s charitable objects and strategic priorities across the Bow Valley. Its impact is wide and varied.
Providing financial assistance to those impacted by wildfire in the town of Jasper.
BCF holds dozens of funds, each with a unique strategic purpose. Some support specific community groups and address key issues. Others are driven by specific needs or inspired by an individual.
How we're Different
As we build and steward funds right here in the Bow Valley, Banff Canmore Foundation is part of an intersectional movement that is driving change with, for and by this community. The goal? A just and sustainable future where everyone belongs.
Join Us for Rooted & Rising – A Spring Social
A Banff Canmore Foundation for a celebration of community. Tap into great conversations and fresh ideas from people shaping community life through their care, conviction, and creative action.
June 19, 2025
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
artsPlace, Canmore
Land Acknowledgement
In the spirit of our efforts to promote reconciliation and create belonging for all, we acknowledge the traditional territories and oral practices of the Stoney Nakoda, Blackfoot and the Tsuut’ina First Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), in this Treaty 7 region of southern Alberta.
We live and work in this beautiful place that is on the traditional territory of Indigenous People who have lived and travelled through these mountains for thousands and thousands of years.
In particular, we acknowledge the Shuswap and K’tunaxs (too nah ha), first nations to the west, as well as the Treaty 7 first nations: the Blackfoot, the Kainai (pronounced “gainai”), the Piikani (pronounced Biigani) and the Siksika first nations, the T’suuTina First Nation, the Stoney Nakoda First Nation: the Goodstoney, Bearspaw and Chiniki bands, as well as the Métis People of Region 3.
Learn more about our efforts to pursue Truth & Reconciliation here in the Bow Valley.