Ocean Wise (Canada)Other

Eco-Action Accelerator

Rolling

Opportunity type

Other

Funding

Fully Funded

Location

Canada (All Provinces)

Deadline

Rolling

About this opportunity

The Eco-Action Accelerator is a 6-month microgrant and mentorship program for Canadian youth alumni of Canada Service Corps to scale their environmental service projects with funding, expert guidance, workshops, and community support.

Benefits include:

Microgrant funding up to $5,000 (competitive streams)
3-day in-person retreat (food, lodging, transport covered)
6 entrepreneurial workshops on project management and sustainability
Regular mentorship with program coaches and peers
Access to professional resources and subject matter experts

Focus areas:

Climate change
Plastic & pollution reduction
Overfishing & sustainable seafood
Nature connectedness, accessibility, eco-grief support

Who can apply

Age 19–30
Must be an alum of Canada Service Corps (CSC)
Have a service project idea contributing to environmental change (direct or indirect)
Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or refugee status
Commitment to ~5–10 hrs/week for 6 months
Submit receipts and final report at program en

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Cross-checked 3 of 4 key facts

Confirmed Our best read Not stated

Good to know

+Real money for a young person's own project: three competitive streams of 1,500, 3,000 or 5,000 dollars, with the budget refined after acceptance as part of the curriculum
+Costs of the in-person element are covered: food, lodging and transportation for the three-day retreat
+It is structure, not just cash: six entrepreneurial workshops, a programme coach, regular peer mentorship and access to subject-matter experts, at roughly 5 to 10 hours a week
+The proposal can be a video of up to 5 minutes instead of a 750-word written piece, which lowers the barrier for applicants who do not write essays well

Worth checking yourself

!Hard eligibility gate that will exclude most readers: you must be an alum of a Canada Service Corps programme, aged 19 to 30, and a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or person granted refugee status
!The last named review cut-off passed the day before this check while the form still says it is accepting applications. Worth an email to the programme before preparing a submission
!The two sources disagree on length: the programme page calls it a 6-month part-time microgrant programme, the live form calls it a 16-week part-time programme
!The form does not let you save progress, and says so itself. Prepare the project proposal and funding rationale first
!The deadline schedule and the funding-stream detail exist only inside the application form, not on the programme page, so a reader who only sees the programme page has no dates at all
!The older programme URL now 404s; the record should point at the current canonical page

Sources checked

OCocean.orgOfficialOCocean.orgOfficial

LOT finds and checks opportunities from public sources. Always confirm details on the organiser’s own page before applying.

Ocean Wise (Canada)Other

Eco-Action Accelerator

Rolling

Opportunity type

Other

Funding

Fully Funded

Location

Canada (All Provinces)

Deadline

Rolling

About this opportunity

Benefits include:

Microgrant funding up to $5,000 (competitive streams)
3-day in-person retreat (food, lodging, transport covered)
6 entrepreneurial workshops on project management and sustainability
Regular mentorship with program coaches and peers
Access to professional resources and subject matter experts

Focus areas:

Climate change
Plastic & pollution reduction
Overfishing & sustainable seafood
Nature connectedness, accessibility, eco-grief support

Who can apply

Age 19–30
Must be an alum of Canada Service Corps (CSC)
Have a service project idea contributing to environmental change (direct or indirect)
Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or refugee status
Commitment to ~5–10 hrs/week for 6 months
Submit receipts and final report at program en

AI Verification

✓ AI Verified

Our AI read the official sources and cross-checked the key facts. Here is what held up, and what it could not confirm.

LOT Verification ScoreSolid

Cross-checked 3 of 4 key facts

Confirmed Our best read Not stated

Good to know

+Real money for a young person's own project: three competitive streams of 1,500, 3,000 or 5,000 dollars, with the budget refined after acceptance as part of the curriculum
+Costs of the in-person element are covered: food, lodging and transportation for the three-day retreat
+It is structure, not just cash: six entrepreneurial workshops, a programme coach, regular peer mentorship and access to subject-matter experts, at roughly 5 to 10 hours a week
+The proposal can be a video of up to 5 minutes instead of a 750-word written piece, which lowers the barrier for applicants who do not write essays well

Worth checking yourself

!Hard eligibility gate that will exclude most readers: you must be an alum of a Canada Service Corps programme, aged 19 to 30, and a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or person granted refugee status
!The last named review cut-off passed the day before this check while the form still says it is accepting applications. Worth an email to the programme before preparing a submission
!The two sources disagree on length: the programme page calls it a 6-month part-time microgrant programme, the live form calls it a 16-week part-time programme
!The form does not let you save progress, and says so itself. Prepare the project proposal and funding rationale first
!The deadline schedule and the funding-stream detail exist only inside the application form, not on the programme page, so a reader who only sees the programme page has no dates at all
!The older programme URL now 404s; the record should point at the current canonical page

Sources checked

OCocean.orgOfficialOCocean.orgOfficial

LOT finds and checks opportunities from public sources. Always confirm details on the organiser’s own page before applying.