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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.