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  • Edmonton Climate Justice Coalition

    Funded 2020 Around Edmonton there are numerous groups involved in climate action related activities. They seek to provide a space for coalition building, skill sharing, and community building between those groups. Members of the working group include Extinction Rebellion Edmonton, Climate Justice Edmonton, and the Alberta Environmental Network.

  • Edmonton Film Collective (EFC)

    Funded 2013-2014

  • Edmonton Free School

    Funded 2012 Edmonton Free School creates a time and a space in which to share knowledge, interests, and skills, for everyone and anyone both inside and outside of the university. They seek to establish horizontal learning practices. At Edmonton Free School classes are proposed by anyone: “I want to learn about feminism and popular culture, or I want to teach about direct action in the workplace”; then, everyone can join the classes through their website, “I want to discuss Godard films too!”; finally, the school provides a meeting space and supplies. Edmonton Free School supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everyone is equal and has an equal capacity to learn.

  • Edmonton Haiti Solidarity (EHS)

    Funded 2006-2007 EHS is an organization promoting awareness about the struggle of the Haitian people and participating in projects that advocate for Haitian sovereignty, popular democracy, and social justice for the people of Haiti. EHS is also committed to promoting awareness about Canada’s presence in Haiti.

  • Edmonton Mood Disorder Society

    Funded 2009-2010 The Edmonton Mood Disorder Society are a mental health peer support group for people with affective disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression. The meetings offer a confidential and free space to meet other people, exchange ideas and find comfort in crisis.

  • Edmonton Muslim Basketball Association (EMBA)

    Funded 2016-2017 EMBA is a basketball association for young Muslim women. Their goal is to promote health and wellness through their weekly training sessions and tournament involvement, as well as providing opportunities for mentorship and friendship and promoting self confidence and empowerment for their members.

  • Edmonton Natural Hair Show

    Funded 2020-2021 The Edmonton Natural Hair Show (ENHS) inspires people of all ages to embrace their natural hair as part of what makes them uniquely beautiful -- a hair type that society often frowns upon. The show builds and strengthens the natural hair community in Edmonton and surrounding areas through events and activities. They provide tools and resources for women, girls, and men to care for their coily kinky curly loose or loc’d hair from businesses and individuals in the industry, such as natural hair specialists, salons, independent hair stylists, and natural hair bloggers/enthusiasts/DIY-ers/social media influencers.

  • Edmonton Organic Growers Guild (EOGG)

    Funded 2010-2019, 2021-2022 Formerly known as the University Farm and Organic Growers. Edmonton Organic Growers Guild (EOGG) is a local volunteer-run urban farming initiative. They grow organic produce, encourage learning and eating, and provide food from their harvest to member volunteers and local food banks. They charge no fees and welcome folks from all walks of life.

  • Edmonton Small Press Association (ESPA)

    Funded 2002-2004 The ESPA is an incorporated, not-for profit arts association that is committed to fostering the awareness and development of independent small-press ventures. The ESPA has an extensive resource library and small press archive, and tech equipment such as industry-standard computers and peripherals, a community photocopier, and more. The ESPA is a resource network for independent producers from all walks of life and skill levels, fostering the D.I.Y. or Die philosophy that anyone can be creative and anyone can have a voice.

  • El-Tawhid

    Funded 2020 El-Tawhid in partnership with The Muslim Feminist Collective are striving to uphold the values of speaking truth to power, acting against injustice, and living in relationship to the land at the core of Islam. MFC amplifies the voices of those who are doing justice work and offers a condemnation of injustice from an Islamic doctrinal and historical perspective. El-Tawhid strives to offer an inclusive space to pray and practice justice centered Islam with a community invested in dismantling systems of oppression. This space centers and exists for those whose identities exist at the margins of mainstream Islam including BIPoC and LGBTQ+ Muslims. Both virtual and physical spaces serve to hold Muslims, including ourselves, accountable to dismantling racism and patriarchy within ourselves, our communities, and social systems.

  • Eritrean Ethiopian Students’ Association (EESA)

    Funded 2018-2019, 2021-2022 The Eritrean and Ethiopian Students’ Association is established for the expressed goal of carrying out activities that create and strengthen the unity of Eritrean and Ethiopian students on campus and equally increase awareness about Eritrea and Ethiopia in the larger Edmonton community

  • Eureka Undergraduate Science Journal

    Funded 2021-2022 Eureka is a student-founded and student-run initiative. This journal offers undergraduate scientists the unique opportunity to share their discoveries with the scientific world through the peer review process. Eureka is an educational institution, with a diverse team of reviewers from many scientific backgrounds, exposing undergraduate students to the publication process often excluded from their traditional scientific education. Through clear and effective scientific writing, students will be able to work together with faculty members to contribute original research and promote science.

  • Fait Accomplit

    Funded 2002-2003 Fait Accomplit is a biannual creative/critical literary journal that was originally founded in 1985 by the graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta.

  • FentaNIL Project

    Funded 2021-2022 The FentaNIL Project aims to ameliorate the detrimental effects of the overdose crisis in Edmonton and the greater Alberta, including rural communities, by facilitating free naloxone training, distributing take-home naloxone kits, and educating community members on overdose prevention strategies and synthetic opioids.

  • Food Not Bombs (FNB)

    Funded 2020 FNB is an organisation dedicated to feeding our communities and pushing for a better society where homelessness and poverty are things of the past. They provide hot meals for community members experiencing homelessness and groceries for low-income people as well as participating in the local political sphere.

  • Friends of the Lubicon Alberta (FOLA)

    Funded 2007-2012 FOLA is an advocacy group based out of the University of Alberta. FOLA exists to promote awareness of the situation facing the Lubicon people and demand compensation for the destruction of Lubicon land and the recognition of the Lubicon’s right to self-government. FOLA worked closely with national Friends of the Lubicon, based out of Toronto, who are the chief negotiators for the Lubicon Nation.

  • FUSS Feminist Collective

    Funded 2002-2003 FUSS endeavors to bring in speakers and resources and create a safe space in which any interested parties could discuss and organize around feminist ideals on campus. FUSS has focused on issues of sexuality, self-representation, and workers’ rights (particularly in relation to sex work).

  • Future Creators

    Funded 2019-2020 Future Creators is a technology mentorship initiative that works with students from grades 7-12 to create their own technology projects with arduinos, 3D printing technologies and coding applications. They consist of undergraduate students from engineering and computer science. They strive to share our technical knowledge and skills to inspire youth in technology and design through mentorship programming. Through their school partnerships, they host free tutorial workshops in schools and find students interested in joining technology mentorship.

  • Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom (FLIF)

    Funded 2011-2022 FLIF is a group of Library and Information Studies students who are interested in promoting intellectual freedom and social responsibility. They believe that issues concerning censorship, freedom of expression, and social justice go hand-in- hand, and hope that through information updates and direct action, they will be able to emphasize the importance of intellectual freedom and social responsibility in the personal and professional lives of their readers and their communities.

  • Greenpeace Edmonton

    Funded 2015-2016 Greenpeace Edmonton is a local campaigning group that is connected to the larger organization of Greenpeace Canada and Greenpeace International. They advocate for conservation and protection of the environment, the promotion of peace, and changing societal attitudes and behaviour. They communicate with our municipal and provincial government in Alberta on issues such as renewable energy, the tar sands, and environmental justice.

  • Greenpeace on Campus

    Funded 2009-2011 Greenpeace on Campus is made up of a coalition of environmentalists and humanitarians. The purpose of the group is to share information, facilitate discussion, and build support about Greenpeace initiatives on campus, and in local and global settings. Their goal is to support the development of an engaged and knowledgeable student community by offering information and opportunities to help students become active and informed about environmental issues in the community, region, nation, and globe.

  • House of Mother Earth (HOME) Project

  • Humanities 101

    Funded 2005-2007 Humanities 101 offers a non-credit post-secondary Arts courses to the underprivileged population in Edmonton. Individuals with experience such as professors and/ or graduate students from a variety of disciplines donate their time to teach weekly sessions.

  • I See Sprouts

    Funded 2013-2014 I See Sprouts is a non-profit program that is aimed at teaching inner city, and new Canadian children their role in community based food security and sustainability. The program centers on a child driven approach at teaching the students how to make wholesome, local, seasonal, and affordable food. The program raises awareness within the University of Alberta community of the importance of our food security. It also provides volunteer opportunities for University of Alberta students.

  • iHuman Youth Society

    Funded 2003-2004 iHuman Youth Society engages Edmonton's marginalized youth to foster positive personal development, wellbeing and social change.