Alberta Blue Cross’s Built Together grant program is now accepting 2025 applications.
Built Together encourages active living by awarding $50,000 grants annually to an Alberta healthy living infrastructure project in Edmonton, Calgary, a secondary city, a rural community and an Indigenous community.
Brian Geislinger, senior vice-president of Corporate Relations and Community Engagement with Alberta Blue Cross, said that as a champion for wellbeing for Albertans, Blue Cross knows that providing community-based amenities to promote active living means healthier populations.
“Through the Built Together program, we’re really investing in the preventative health of Albertans,” Geislinger said.
To date, Built Together provided $2.65 million in funding to 53 projects supporting active living in communities across Alberta.
Non-for-profit organizations, municipalities, schools and community groups are eligible and encouraged to apply.
In 2024 the Built Together program received over 100 applications that resulted in the Norwood School playground in Edmonton, the Jasper skate park, a dementia inclusive park in Calgary, the Salt Prairie Settlement playground and the Big Horn First Nation playground.
Funding for Built Together comes from the Alberta Blue Cross community foundation, and applications are evaluated by a panel of experts and against other applications from the same award category.
More information about the program is available on the Alberta Blue Cross community website.
The deadline to apply is Sept. 22.
