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Invest where it matters most: catalysing Canada’s shift from reaction to prevention
Transformation happens when bold partners invest in systems, not symptoms. For wildfire, that moment is now.
Catastrophic wildfire is reshaping communities, ecosystems, and economies, yet we continue to overwhelmingly spend on response, not prevention. Technical solutions exist—but without alignment, collaboration remains fragmented and progress uneven.
The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative is building the foundations to change that. Over the past three years, we’ve proven what’s possible when we bridge divides. By convening the leaders who can act, we’ve co-designed strategies that address the root drivers of risk and laid the groundwork for prevention at scale. We build resilience not by reacting to fire, but by investing in trust, alignment, and collective action.
Momentum is building. With catalytic partners, we’re ready to grow this impact over the next five years—embedding prevention in policy, tackling thorny issues, expanding leadership cohorts, and strengthening the relationships that drive resilient futures.
Here’s what your investment makes possible:
Impact that multiplies: Every dollar invested upstream in prevention saves many more in avoided losses: reducing suppression costs, safeguarding livelihoods, and protecting communities, ecosystems, and public resources from catastrophic fires.
National leadership for prevention: Expanding cohorts of cross-sector leaders, practitioners, and fire stewards driving change across Canada.
Policy that lasts: Embedding prevention in the institutions and funding mechanisms that shape land, climate, and community decisions and create durable, systems-level change.
Courageous collaboration: Convening the tough, high-heat conversations others avoid – de-risking partnerships, building trust, and turning friction into forward motion.
Whole-of-society solutions: Bringing together unlikely allies to co-create the solutions that no single sector can achieve alone.
Innovation that scales: Amplifying and sharing leading-edge ideas (scientific, cultural, and policy-based) into practical models ready to be replicated across Canada.
Strengthening democratic capacity: Fostering dialogue across difference to rebuild trust in public institutions, counter polarization, and create principled, independent spaces where diverse actors can deliberate, align, and act together.
A climate solution at scale: Advancing one of Canada’s most powerful levers for climate action by reducing wildfire emissions and protecting critical carbon sinks.
Healthier landscapes & communities: Restoring balance to fire-affected landscapes, protecting watersheds, biodiversity, and carbon stores, and honouring the relationships between people, land, and fire.