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• Somali Students' Association (SSA)

  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.

• 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.

• Black Lives Matter - Edmonton & Area

  Funded 2016-2019 BLM’s movement actively promotes a practice of inclusive, pro-Black, pro-accessibility, anti-oppressive personal and community empowerment. This empowerment is characterized by outreach projects orchestrated by committees dedicated to the local maintenance of high educational standards; political advocacy on behalf of the YEG Black community; an ongoing dialogue with the Edmonton City Police; community engagement across communities in Edmonton, and encouraging responsible alliance within non-Black communities to combat anti-Blackness.

• Native Studies Course Requirement (NSCR)

  Funded 2016-2017 Native Studies Course Requirement exists because there is a perpetual deficit within the current Canadian educational institutions. This deficit is contingent with every aspect of the creation and maintenance of the Canadian state, one which has continually neglected but also perpetuates cultural genocide. NSCR, does not solely exist to advocate and push for required indigenous course content.

• Sapling Poet Tree

  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.

• Kulture Hubs

  Funded 2015-2016 Kulture Hubs is an educational extension of the Hip Hop in the Park Foundation whose mandate is to reclaim the founding values of Hip Hop as a culture of peace and reconciliation. Hip Hop is commonly perceived as embodying greed, violence, and misogyny; however, it was developed in the South Bronx in the late 1970s to enact a peace treaty between over 100 gangs and singlehandedly saved an entire community. Rather than mimicking this historical Hip Hop culture, Kulture Hubs seeks to create a new Hip Hop culture which integrates contemporary issues and experiences in marginalized communities in Edmonton. They seek to unify leadership from different activist communities so that we can work together towards the common goal of liberation.

• 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.

• 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.

• Migrante Alberta Youth

  Funded 2015-2020 A youth group run by Migrante that provides opportunities for education, engagement, and community building in the Philippine community of migrant workers in Edmonton and beyond. Migrante dedicates its work to grassroots migrants advocacy. Understanding and addressing the immediate needs of migrants is important to them.

• Students' International Health Association (SIHA)

  Funded 2014-2016 The Students’ International Health Association (SIHA) Local is a student-led organization dedicated to sustainable health promotion and community development.

• Islamic Relief at the University of Alberta

  Funded 2013-2018 A community group focused on the offering of education and support to students and community members in accordance with the faith teachings of Islam.

• Amnesty International University of Alberta Chapter

  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.

• ConsentEd

  Funded 2012-2016 ConsentEd believes that everyone deserves to live in a world without sexual violence. Their mission is to actively work towards changing the way our society perceives the issue of consent and sexual violence. Specifically, they provide resources to educate, engage and inspire young adults who are otherwise bombarded with a constant stream of unhelpful or incorrect information about sexual violence.

• 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.

• Palestine Solidarity Network (PSN)

  Funded 2009-2022 The Palestine Solidarity Network is a non-profit, grassroots collective aimed at advocating for and upholding the human rights of Palestinians in the face of ongoing oppression, occupation, racism, and discrimination, both in occupied Palestine and in the diaspora.