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 2002-2008
Biofreedom is committed to consumer advocacy and
education concerning Genetically Engineered (GE) foods.
They plan to conduct a public awareness campaign about
the issues concerning genetic engineering and mandatory
labeling of GE food products, and to promote awareness of
GE Wheat.
Funded 2003-2008
Goals: To produce food on campus without the use of pesticides, chemicals, genetically modified plants, or treated city water. To provide organic, fresh, and healthy food for students through the Campus Food Bank, a market garden, or another similar program. To create nature-connected recreational opportunities for students. To promote the cultivation of local, hardy, and easily managed vegetables.
Funded 2006-2010
The mission of the Campus Sustainability Coalition is to transform the University of Alberta into a participating, sustainable member of society. Through a partnership among students, faculty, staff, and community members, we strive to achieve economic, social, and environmental sustainability through campus operations and curriculum.
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.
Funded 2005-2009
Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) is a charitable organization committed to using the power of the media to effect positive social change. Members design and produce media-driven awareness campaigns to engage and educate students in issues of human rights and justice. By increasing the quality and quantity of human rights reporting, JHR pressures abusers to stop and empowers victims to fight back. JHR works collaboratively to coordinate domestic and international projects that build capacity for human rights
reporting.
Funded 2006-2009
This organization is a resource for student and community based research, education and social activism. They provide administrative, informational and technological resources to assist groups to transform social concern into effective action. The goal of LAC is to engage people in the discussion of our Western Justice system and offer thoughtful counter voices.
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 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.
Funded 2003-2011
The Olive is a non-profit editorial collective established by students and former students at the University of Alberta in 2000 to provide a regular and consistent forum for poetry in Edmonton. The mandate of the organization is to feature local writers and poets from across Canada. The Olive fosters an environment where local writers and poetry enthusiasts can interact with artists from the larger literary community.
Funded 2007-2009
TRUE's goal is for Edmonton citizens, especially those dependent on public transportation, to get involved by sharing their ideas and concerns so that we can all develop a serviceable transit system for everyone. TRUE is currently formed of ETS riders who are researching and developing strategies to improve the quality of public transit in Edmonton, Alberta. TRUE wishes to champion an effective movement and wants to provide a unified voice towards efficient affordable public transit.
Funded 2008-2012
The Council of Canadians University of Alberta Chapter is about taking a stand on important political, social, economic, environmental and yes even cultural issues. The mandate of the group is to promote Canadian Sovereignty in reaction to pressures to integrate with the United States and a move towards globalization; to reclaim a local and global commons and to create a civil society movement including participatory democracy.
Funded 2003-2012
The U of A Women’s Centre exists to provide a supportive environment for education, networking and organizing around women-specific issues within the campus community and beyond. It is a space dedicated to community building and activism, supporting women and women-positive groups to connect, dialogue, organize and create around issues and ideas. The Centre offer funding and administrative resources to support groups in carrying out their projects.
