Real Estate Industry Grant Application
Category 1: Organized Real Estate

PROGRAM INFORMATION

The application deadline is 5:00pm on December 10, 2024.

Only the following Organized Real Estate organizations are eligible to apply:

  • BC Real Estate Association
  • Real Estate Institute of BC
  • Local Real Estate Boards and Associations

Please contact our Grants Coordinator (grants@refbc.ca| 604-343-2629 or toll free at 1-866-912-6800 ext. 109) if you have any questions about the grant application process or would like to discuss our funding criteria and eligibility. If our Grants Coordinator is unavailable please contact one of our Grants Program Managers. 


Real Estate Industry Grants

All Real Estate Foundation grants support projects that are in the public interest. Each year, the Foundation earmarks a percentage of its budget to fund research, education, and law reform projects led by real estate industry organizations. These projects build capacity in the industry and empower real estate professionals with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to serve the public. REFBC supports work that:

  • Builds real estate professionals' knowledge of sustainable land use and real estate practices
  • Connects real estate industry organizations with other partners to collaborate and build support for sustainable land use practices among real estate professionals, the public, and policy makers.
  • Supports real estate professionals in their role as advisors on real estate, land use and built environment trends, laws and standards that help foster a high quality of life and/or serve the public interest in other ways.
  • Supports real estate professionals’ efforts to understand and address systemic racism in land use and its historical and contemporary contexts, and to engage, strengthen relationships, and create opportunities for collaboration and partnership with Indigenous, Black and people of colour in BC.

TECHNICAL NOTES

  • Questions with an asterisk (*) are required and must have responses in order to submit the form
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  • When you click Submit, you will be redirected to a confirmation page and a PDF copy of your submission will be emailed to you.
  • All applications must be received through the online form. To avoid frustration with internet connection issues, we recommend using the Word template to draft responses before copy/pasting into the online form.

SECTION 1 - APPLICANT INFORMATION


Only organized real estate bodies – the BC Real Estate Association, the Real Estate Institute of BC, and the regional Real Estate Boards – are eligible for consideration for a Real Estate Industry Grant.

 

Our General Grants Program will be accepting applications in January – you can subscribe for an intake alert and deadline reminder at https://refbc.ca/newsletter/ .


 

Questions on program eligibility can be directed to grants@refbc.ca.

Applicant Organization

Social Media
If available, please share your organization's social media account info. 



Primary Contact
Application Primary Contact
Please provide the name and contact information of the person REFBC should contact if there are questions about your application. this is the person who will be notified about the status of your application.  












Secondary Contact
Application Secondary Contact (optional)
If there is an additional contact related to this application, please note their details here for reference (they may be at your organization or from a key partner organization). 












Racial Equity and Justice


Note: If you are applying for both PDP support and project funding, you will need to fill in an application form for each individual application.
PDP Requirements
PDP Instructor Travel & Accommodations Support covers anticipated expenses incurred between April 1 and March 31.

The BC Northern Real Estate Board and the Association of Interior Realtors are eligible to apply for funds to support instructor travel and accommodations for their regular PDP offerings in addition to being eligible to apply for project-based funding. This funding is made available to recognize that in serving members in rural and remote areas, they must provide in-person PDP opportunities in a larger number of locations, which leads to additional costs for instructor travel and accommodations.


Applicants should request an amount based on estimates of PDP instructor travel and accommodation costs for in-person program delivery. If approved, actual expenses up to this amount will be reimbursed upon submission of receipts at year end.


Please enter an unformatted number (no $ or ,) eg: 99450.50


SECTION 2 - PROJECT INFORMATION

Details




REFBC Mandate Areas

Region


Descriptions


Advancing UNDRIP

The United Nations Declaration on the Right of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) provides an international framework for the protection of Indigenous rights. Many of its articles are relevant to land use and relationships to land.

 

REFBC has a role and responsibility to support UNDRIP commitments and BC Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) implementation through our activities. Engagement with applicants and grantees is one of several actions we are taking. This new section of REFBC’s application form is an opportunity to reflect on how UNDRIP principles may be honoured in your work.

 

Some elements or goals in land use project planning and delivery that could contribute to the advancement of UNDRIP:

  • Projects that have partnerships with affected Indigenous nations, or those nations whose territory the project is taking place in
  • Preparatory work (research) to educate project staff on history, culture, governance and laws of affected/host First Nations to inform partnerships and relationship-building
  • Project activities support the exercise of Indigenous Rights
  • Incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge in project planning
  • Communications and relationship building with host/affected First Nations leadership, including receiving input and direction on project design and implementation
  • Communications and outreach with host/affected First Nations membership to receive and incorporate feedback into project design & implementation
  • Inclusion of Indigenous ceremony & protocols in project planning and delivery
  • Training and other initiatives to strengthen the capacity of Indigenous peoples to practice and uphold Indigenous rights and interests in ways that are meaningful to them

Key Project Deliverables

Please list the most important deliverables that would be included in your funding agreement if your application is approved. Deliverables include products (e.g. reports, policy briefs, etc.), processes/activities (community engagement, workshops, etc.), and major tasks or milestones (e.g. completion of research, establishment of a task force, etc.) committed to and should be specific, relevant, and within the time frame of the funding proposal. Aim for a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 10 deliverables.

 

*Note: These deliverables will be confirmed and can be adjusted at the time of signing a grant agreement. REFBC recognizes that projects may shift or change during delivery. Our grant agreements include provisions for amending proposed project deliverables if required.











Partnerships

Project Partners are not mandatory for Real Estate Industry Grants awarded to Organized Real Estate bodies. However, the Foundation encourages partnerships and collaboration if this makes sense for the project proposal, and partner organizations may come from the non-profit, public, government and/or private sectors.


Please list partner organizations and consultants that will be directly involved in the project. Partners are organizations that share in project planning and/or implementation. Partners may also share in decision-making about the project. Add additional responses, as required, to list all key partners. Note: organizations only providing financial support are not considered partners for this question.


Partner Information




















If you have more than 5 partners on this project, please list additional partner names & a description of their roles under Additional Information on page 6.

SECTION 3 - PROJECT BUDGET

For requests over $20,000, REFBC generally matches up to 50% of the cash portion of a project's budget.  For requests up to $20,000, matching funding from other sources is encouraged but not required. 

 

Eligible expenses include staffing and program delivery, project coordination, communications, consultant fees, convening & workshops, travel, Indigenous ceremony & cultural protocols, honoraria, and building cultural competency.

 

Note: The Real Estate Foundation of BC does not fund project activities retroactively. The funding you are requesting should be allocated in your budget towards activities which do not begin until after funding decisions are made in March.


Please enter an unformatted number (no $ or ,) eg: 99450.50

Please enter an unformatted number (no $ or ,) eg: 99450.50
REFBC Budget Template

Please download the REFBC Grant Application Budget Excel Template.

 

BUDGET TEMPLATE INSTRUCTIONS: Replace green instructional text in the template with your confirmed and projected project funding on the Revenues tab, and your projected project expenses on the Expenses tab. Your budget should reflect your total project revenues and expenses. Use the column provided to indicate the amount of each applicable program expense you propose to allocate to funding from REFBC. Upload your completed template as an Excel file.

File Size Limit: 2 MB


SECTION 4 - OPTIONAL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

NOTE: These are not required. Your application form responses and proposed budget are the only requirements for your grant application.

Supplementary Documents or Letters of Support

Please use file names that provide some indication of the file contents and date of publication if applicable. The following format is preferred: Org Name Acronym_Document Name_Date of Publication - eg: REFBC_Land Use Opinion Poll_Jan 2024.pdf


Documents in PDF format are preferred, but Word and Excel files may be uploaded. Video or image files of 10 MB or less may also be uploaded here. URLs for online files or larger file downloads can be included in your application form responses.


Note: Letters of support from other organizations are not mandatory. Letters of support can also be in email format (please upload a PDF copy of the email). Letters of support addressed/submitted to other funders are also acceptable. 





















Contact Information