Community grants program

Applying for a community grant

Eligibility

To be eligible for grant funding, your initiative must:

• Focus on (or enable ICBC’s promotion of) road safety or injury recovery/disability support

  • Injury-disability initiatives must be accessible to people injured in a motor vehicle crash

• Target one or more communities in B.C.

• Be planned and delivered from an office in B.C.

• Benefit a significant number of people living in B.C.

Most grant recipients are non-profit community organizations, although we in some cases partner on or support the initiatives of other types of organizations.

The following are not eligible for funding:

• For-profit companies

• Individuals

• Initiatives outside of B.C.

• Injury recovery / disability support for a small number of specific individuals

• Road safety infrastructure - Please contact your municipality and/or the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, either of which can submit an application to ICBC’s Road Improvement Program

• Dry grads - We encourage you to contact [email protected] to learn about our road safety resources, including our road safety speakers

• In-vehicle driver training for individual drivers

• Transportation services, including shuttles and volunteer driver programs

• Religious or political organizations

• Lobbyists or special interest groups

Submitting an application

Our annual call for proposals is currently open. Applications may be submitted through January 28, 2026.

1. Review the criteria above to ensure that both your initiative and organization are eligible. Please note that in general, non-profit community organizations receive these grants.

2. Save the grant application form  to your computer/network.

   • If your organization is requesting a grant for a road safety initiative targeting a single municipality or community, please use the local road safety initiatives application form . You can also learn about local road safety resources by connecting with the ICBC Road Safety & Community Coordinator  for your region.

   • When saving and submitting the application form, use the following format: ICBC grant application – Organization name.pdf

3. Complete the application form. Please carefully consider the specific information you enter into each section.

   • An organization may only submit one application in each call for proposals.

   • Incomplete applications will have a lower priority for funding or may be declined as a result of missing information.

   • Existing program materials may be attached as examples, but do not include pages intended to expand the application (e.g. a detailed budget).

4. Email your completed application to [email protected], including your organization's name in the subject line, by January 28, 2026.

Review

The review of proposals will include an assessment of:

• Clarity and completeness

• Level of focus on road safety or injury recovery / disability support

• Value of the concept to the community

• Likelihood of success based on the plan for the initiative

• Involvement of other relevant stakeholders

Questions

If you have any questions, please email ​[email protected].