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Make a positive impact in your community

Investments from TC Energy’s Social Impact program, Build Strong, are guided by a set of criteria. Whether we are providing grants, awarding scholarships to future energy problem solvers or supporting local events that bring community members together, our goal is to help build strong, vibrant communities.

We consider investment opportunities from communities within an approximate 30-kilometre (20-mile) radius of our operations or projects, that:

  • Align with one or more of our focus areas
  • Address a gap or need in the community that will allow the community to thrive
  • Create shared value and prosperity between our communities and our business
  • Promote equity and equality
  • Offer engagement opportunities for our employees
  • Demonstrate measurable impact

Our partnerships reflect the diversity of the communities where we live and work across North America. Through our social impact portfolio, we support organizations that promote equity and equality and contribute to a more inclusive future for us all.

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Interested in applying for funding from Build Strong?

LEARN ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND TIPS ON HOW TO APPLY FOR FUNDING FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

Ineligible organizations

  • For-profit organizations
  • Private schools
  • Organizations that discriminate based on race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation
  • Individuals
  • Religious, political or special interest groups
  • Advocacy and lobby initiatives – including organizations that lobby against the energy industry
  • Recreation or sports organizations and events
  • Infrastructure Projects 
  • Playgrounds
  • Trips or tours
  • Third-party fundraisers
  • Advertising, memberships, ticket sales, or lotteries
  • Mass-mailed or non-addressed solicitation
  • Health-related organizations and fundraising events
  • Arts organizations (theatres, museums, orchestras, etc.)
  • Organizations seeking to purchase firearms and/or weapons (guns, bullet proof vests, ammunition, etc.)
  • Organizations seeking to provide scholarships to students

Applying

Build Strong application is closed.

Our application is currently closed.

Our application is currently closed; please check back at the end of January 2025. We accept applications on a rolling basis from late January to early November. Once all Build Strong dollars have been allocated, applications will not be considered for the remainder of the year. We encourage you to apply early.

If you are a successful applicant, you will be required to provide impact data metrics via a reporting survey that TC Energy will send you six months to a year after being awarded your funds.

Our application is currently closed.

Please apply here if you are an Indigenous group, or your application will benefit more than 75 per cent Indigenous peoples. To see if your initiative is a fit, visit the Indigenous Community Legacy page.

Questions?  

Email build_strong@mpeaffiliate.com to connect with the Social Impact team.

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Trout Unlimited Canada is an incredible organization with a proven track record of success in waterway restoration dating back to 1972. TC Energy has been partnering with Trout Unlimited Canada for the last 20 years: simply because we believe in their unmatched capability to implement real change on the ground, protect natural spaces and improve our water resources. Over the past few years, we have supported their Reconnecting Canada Project, which aims to restore water ways to improve fish passage and water quality.

Learn more about Trout Unlimited Canada
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TC Energy Summer Scholars Academy

TC Energy and the TC Energy Foundation donated US$50,000 to the University of Houston’s College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) to support a summer program that enables high school students interested in majoring in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) to prepare for the transition to college. The intensive, nine-week program, TC Energy Summer Scholars Academy, provides support to 50 students, many of whom are the first generation in their family to attend college.

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