CIT Projects: Summer 2008-Summer 2009

CIT Staff Report

Over the past 12 months the Governors at the Real Estate Foundation of BC have granted $165,000 for 7 Communities in Transition projects in non-metropolitan communities in BC.

The CIT Program at the Real Estate Foundation was launched because Governors believed a different kind of approach was needed to build capacities in BC communities. CIT has a mission to support "values based" planning processes that balance social, environmental, economic, and governance concerns to address regional and local land use and conservation issues in non-metropolitan areas of BC.

CIT has identified three key goals to assist in carrying out its mission: (1) help communities plan for transition; (2) encourage and support partnerships and collaboration; and, (3) share achievements, expertise and implementation strategies.

Grants made in the past 12 months reflect the diversity of approaches taken by BC communities, as well as the diversity of need. As CIT moves more fully into engaging social media like (including this blog, but also Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, podcasting, and Twitter - you can search for us as "CITinfoResource" in all of these venues), we hope to be even more effective in sharing the learning that results from CIT projects and partners.


List of CIT grants, July 2008 – Aug 2009

$20,000 - City of Kimberley to conduct housing needs assessment research.

$10,000 - Municipality of North Cowichan to undertake a community character assessment study.

$24,000 - Similkameen Valley Planning Society to conduct multiple futures scenario analysis as part of a strategic planning exercise for the Valley.

$22,000 - District of Barriere in support of a community park development master plan.

$40,000 - Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, University of BC for development of three-dimensional landscape scenarios for projected climate change impacts in Kimberley, as part of the Columbia Basin Climate Change Visioning project. Take a look at our CITinfoResource review of this project.

$16,000 - Wildsight to support a fourth year of water quality testing and analysis as part of the Healthy Water, Healthy Communities - Lake Windermere Project. Reviewed in this posting of CITinfoResource.

$35,000 - Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen on behalf of the South Okanagan Similkameen Conservation Program to create tools, share resources, and provide environmental planning expertise to the municipalities of Penticton, Summerland, Oliver, Osoyoos, and Keremeos.

For more information about CIT, or to apply for a grant, please contact CIT staff at info@communitytransition.org or go to our website at www.communitytransition.org.

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