Funded 2003-2004
RAE is dedicated to forming relationships between the newcomer community and post-secondary students. University students will be paired with newcomer youth from the community to offer free tutoring services. The objectives of RAE are to focus on disadvantaged youth, promote equal opportunity for education, help establish consistent study habits, provide a positive role model, build communication skills, and establish a long-term program in the community.
Funded 2021-2022
RootUp is a group of students in Edmonton committed to bringing cultures together and creating a community that helps newcomers, such as immigrants and refugees, feel at home in a new environment while sharing their unique cultural identities with Edmonton’s mosaic.
Funded 2003-2004
There are two basic aspects to the SafeZone mandate.The first goal is education, raising awareness about various Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) issues faced by LGBTQ people at a University campus. The second aspect is to identify and train LGBTQ allies that exist at the U of A and beyond.
Funded 2015-2017
Sapling Poet Tree is a spoken word organization for marginalized youth in Edmonton. It seeks to enrich, problematize, and revist perspectives on youth poverty and on the nature of the limitations
that people labeled as “poor” experience, while challenging the
estimation that the youth’s problem are not systemic. Sapling Poet
Tree mentors young poets in a manner that is driven by grass roots
approaches to vocal empowerment, literary proficiency, and self
recognition. Sapling Poet Tree creates artifacts evidential of the real existence, progress, struggles and realization of youth, all working toward the radical disruption of value systems, economic systems and justice systems that would cast these young people, and all of us at various junctures of our intersectionality, as inhuman.
Funded 2018-2019
The Self-Advocacy Federation is an organization comprised of people with disabilities and their allies who get together to discuss the issues facing people with disabilities.
Funded 2019-2020
The Sexual Violence Advocacy and Accountability Network (SVAAN) commits to ending sexual violence in the hospitality and arts industries and the shared communities of their membership through survivor-centered restorative justice
Funded 2018-2020
Shades of Colour is a grassroots collective located within treaty 6. They are QTBIPOCs (Queer + Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) making space for other QTBIPOCs who need this space to breathe. They hope that this will help to fill the gaps within community in ways that affirm our experiences and identity and move towards strengthening healthy multi-generational relationships that are needed.
Funded 2003-2004
The Sierra Youth Coalition Working Group encourages
awareness and action on environmental issues through
lobbying and consciousness-raising on the University
campus and the greater Edmonton community. Our
mandate is to seek coalitions amongst other groups with
similar mandates to assert our collective voice to move us on
a path of greater ecological and social sustainability.
In Spring (2003) a group of students formed an APIRG
working group under the banner of the Sierra Youth
Coalition, UofA Chapter. The plan was to form an
environmental activist group on campus and create greater
awareness about environmental issues, especially those
pertaining to the campus ecosystem. The Environmental
Coordination Office of Students (ECOS) was a contributing
member of this working group.
Funded 2009-2010
SIDME is a non-profit, grassroots collective of students and community members aimed at raising awareness about Iran’s civil rights and democratic movement. Founded in July 2009 in Edmonton, AB, in solidarity with the Green Movement, SIDME supports the Iranian people’s struggle for democracy and human rights. Since its founding, SIDME has hosted various lectures and panel discussions (in both English and Farsi), as well as photo exhibitions, film screenings, and poetry nights, educating the University of Alberta community and the broader Edmonton community about the state of human rights in Iran and about the Iranian civil society’s movement towards civil and political rights.
Funded 2016-2019
SSA is a Somali students group on the university of Alberta Campus designed to create a safe space for young Somalis to build and foster their collective identity. Their mission is to develop leadership attributes amongst the youth in the community while maintaining freedom of cultural expression.
Funded 2003-2004
SALSA aims to promote an understanding and appreciation of South Asian political, legal, and social issues with the overarching goal of highlighting the importance of legal discourse across borders. SALSA seeks to create a supportive community for law students, encourage South Asian involvement in the legal arena, and promote awareness of South Asian cultures and issues including, but not limited to, those of a social, political, and legal nature.
Funded 2020
The South Sudanese Youth of Edmonton (SSYEG) is a group that is aspiring to connect and empower South Sudanese youth (SSY) across the Edmonton region. By engaging youth in a series of workshops, events and volunteer opportunities. In addition SSYEG focuses on the integration of newcomers into Canadian society and assists in maintaining their unique ethnic heritage and culture. Furthermore, SSYEG strives to connect Edmonton based SSY to other active SSY groups across the country
Funded 2008-2009
SparkEd is an alternative Junior High School leadership program focusing on experiential education (learning by doing) in two main pillars. The first is issue education (educating oneself and others about issues of social and environmental justice, through the preparation of presentations on these issues for classmates and/or the school at large). The second is active education (gaining the tools and skills to organize around these issues at the grassroots level, through the organization and execution of projects that actively involve students in their communities).
Funded 2009-2011
Stand with Fort Chipewyan (SWFC) is a non-partisan, campus advocacy organization based out of the University of Alberta dedicated to raising awareness to the concerns expressed by the people of Fort Chipewyan, as well as lobbying the government to engage in actions to firmly establish the effect of oil sands development on the health of residents.
Funded 2002-2010
SWAG organizes around issues that affect working class students, either students who work jobs while going to school, or students as workers in training. This includes teaching students how to organize unions, working with unions on campus, and struggling to improve the conditions of student labour.
