Funded 2006-2009
The goal of ACTV is to produce and distribute a television program that provides citizens with the skills and capacity to live sustainable, low-impact lifestyles within environmentally healthy and ecologically conscious communities. The program will focus upon do-it-yourself skills and techniques to reduce one’s ecological footprint, consumer awareness, citizen empowerment and community networking, and dispelling the negative connotations of environmentalism in Alberta.
Funded 2003-2004
This group hopes to increase public awareness of the local and global relevance of HIV/AIDS and the urgent need to arrest the free-falling cycle of infection. They are working to provide a supportive and integrative grass-roots approach to health care education, outreach, and advocacy for at-risk populations in Edmonton, especially those who “fall through the cracks” and have little or no voice in the community. Addressing AIDS hopes to rally the political will to devote more resources to addressing the HIV/AIDS problem and to empower people to break down the barriers impeding a solution to the AIDS stigma at home and the
urgent AIDS pandemic abroad.
2002-2003
This group was established to look into ways in which
students could increase the availability of affordable
student housing on campus. Our group is looking into
two strategies: the possibility of students starting a studentowned, student-run residence on the University of Alberta
campus, and the use of unconventional residence styles
(such as co-ops).
Funded 2017-2018
A student group of African students at the University of Alberta who organize for community engagement and community building among their membership as well education of the undergraduate student body.
Funded 2002-2003
The Alberta Taiga Oilsands Project is organized to provide
a ready structure for research into the social and ecological
ramifications of oil sands industry of Alberta. Researchers
and participants are welcome to contribute their own work
to the database, and to use the resources for their own
research. It is hoped that ATOP will constitute a platform
and foundation for research.
Funded 2021-2022
Ubuntu-Mobilizing Central Alberta is a registered non profit with an engaging youth council that is made up of high school and university students. We focus on equity, justice, solidarity and providing access for Black people and other communities that have been historically marginalized in central Alberta. Our mission statement is to act as a bridge and connect communities through advocacy and community building. We have completed numerous projects which focused on gender equity, queer representation, diversity, community advocacy and community engagement.
In response to food insecurity in central Alberta amongst historically marginalized communities Ubuntu started the All Spoons Project to share skills and resources for participants to learn how to start and maintain a garden.
Visit their website to learn more: https://ubuntualberta.com/
Funded 2021-2022
All Y’All Calendar, an astrology calendar for prairie queers and gender-bending BIPOC cowboys.
Salem (they/them) is a multimedia story-teller, astrologer and an amiskwacîwâskahikan-based prairie boy, Born and barely raised in small-town Alberta, they have loudly declared amiskwacîwâskahikan their soul’s muse. Salem’s vision of the prairies paints it as the backdrop to the stories of flourishing black and indigenous creatives. Their work as an emerging filmmaker and digital media artist works to elevate narratives that centre the stories, aesthetics and values of QTBIPOC and BIPOC artists. Salem’s artistic practice and mission is fueled by astrology, Afrofuturism, and Emergent Strategy practices.
In 2021 Salem launched project the All Y’All Calendar, an astrology calendar for prairie queers and gender-bending BIPOC cowboys.
“The ultimate spirit of this project is to foster a creative space where Black, Indigenous, and creatives of colour of all bodies can access experience on a photoshoot that celebrates decolonizing what it means to be a cowboy. Queer and racialized people aren’t commonly associated with Western wear, cowboy lifestyles, and gritty plains that are so emblematic of Alberta and the Prairies. This project inserts these people and histories into the contemporary narrative of what it means to be an Albertan.”
Funded 2005-2007
ACBES strives to research ways in which to change the current Canadian economic system into one that is more sustainable (economically and environmentally), seeking alternatives that focus on local and community supported systems.
Funded 2013-2016
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. They are dedicated to carrying out Amnesty’s work of defending human rights. Their mission is to give the students of the University of Alberta the opportunity to take part in Amnesty International’s actions and be a fellow human rights ambassador. The group operates for the purpose of increasing campus and community awareness of international human rights violations and environmental degradation. It also operates in campaigning peacefully to free all prisoners of conscience, ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners, abolish the death penalty, torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of all prisoners, and stop abuses by opposition groups including hostage taking, torture, and deliberate and arbitrary killings.
