HCi3 Fund is a Halifax/Kjipuktuk climate funding organization that offers grants and impact investments for low-carbon projects. It supports emissions reduction, renewable energy, housing, transportation, and community-led climate action in Nova Scotia. View HCi3 Fund's website for more information.
HCi3 positions itself as a climate finance organization serving Halifax/Kjipuktuk and the surrounding Nova Scotia context. Its website shows two distinct outward-facing funding channels: a grant program for community-driven climate projects and an impact investing stream that uses flexible financing tools to accelerate low-carbon solutions.
The grant program supports innovative projects that help the region move toward net-zero by 2050 through a just and equitable transition. The priorities highlighted on the site include low-carbon housing, community-based renewable energy, and shared or electric transportation. The page also indicates that HCi3 may consider projects outside those categories when they have significant greenhouse gas reduction potential.
The program materials describe practical application steps, annual deadlines, project eligibility requirements, matching-fund expectations, and a funding model that can cover up to 80% of project costs. The site also lists ineligible uses of grant funds, showing that the organization actively administers a structured grant portfolio.
Beyond grants, HCi3 says it invests in low-carbon solutions that reduce emissions, support a just transition, and benefit local communities. The impact investing page identifies building solutions, EVs and low-carbon mobility, and renewable energy as target areas. It also names several financial structures, including loans, lines of credit, community bonds, equipment leases, loan guarantees, and equity investment.
The organization maintains grant recipient profiles and public project highlights, naming past recipients such as the Delmore Buddy Daye Learning Institute, the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, JD Composites, Ecology Action Centre, Volta Research, and others. This confirms that HCi3 funds external organizations and projects, rather than only supporting its own operations.
The site notes that HCi3 is a subsidiary of EfficiencyOne and is connected to the Low Carbon Cities Canada network. It also acknowledges support from the Government of Canada, the Province of Nova Scotia, and philanthropic funders that help make the program possible.