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• Students for Consent Culture Speaker Series
  Funded 2021-2022 Students for Consent Culture Canada (SFCC) is an organization dedicated to supporting intersectional and grassroots anti-sexual violence advocacy and activism on campuses across Canada by serving as a hub of resources, tools, and institutional memory for students to engage with. SFCC is planning a Speaker Series of free, accessible, educational virtual talks centering issues of gender-based violence prevention and survivor support. Speakers and panelists will include experts, activists, and those with lived experience on topics such as: sexualized violence and the law, creating communities of accountability, community care, supporting survivors through reporting processes, accessible protest organizing, disability justice, and more. This project is entirely student-led, for students. Visit the SFCC website to learn more and keep in touch with SFCC on facebook & instagram! https://www.sfcccanada.org/ https://www.facebook.com/SFCCCanada https://www.instagram.com/sfcccanada/
• (in)Tolerance & Pain: Brown Skin, White Coats & Microaggressions
  Funded 2021-2022 The Black Pharmacy Students’ Association (BPSA) aims to increase Black representation and engagement in the pharmacy profession, and provide a safe space for Black pharmacy students, empower them, and create a strong and extensive network. Effect of Racism and Micro-aggressions on Mental and Physical Health: A focus on Black Healthcare Students and Professionals is a virtual talk by Dr. Nnorom who will be dissecting how anti-Black oppression presents itself within many health sciences programs, including pharmacy. From Funding Recipient(s): "On behalf of the Black Pharmacy Students' Association (BPSA), University of Alberta, I would like to thank you for sponsoring our webinar, "(in)Tolerance & Pain: Brown Skin, White Coats, and Micro-aggressions. Through your generous contribution, we raised awareness about the harmful effects of anti-Black racism on Black healthcare students and professionals. The event was very impactful, and we had an excellent discourse on the topic in question, how it relates to other racialized students, and how Faculty and leaders can take concrete steps to support Black, Indigenous, and other students of color. In addition, BPSA was able to fulfill our goal to advocate for safe spaces for Black pharmacy students, staff, and the community, and this would not have been possible without your support. Your partnership has moved us a step closer to tackling systemic issues and dismantling oppressive systems in academia, specifically pharmacy and medical education, and workplaces in healthcare systems. We appreciate your support for this event, and we look forward to more opportunities for partnership in the future"
• Youreka Edmonton Symposium
  Funded 2020-2021 https://yourekacanada.org/ From Funding Recipient(s)/Event Organizer(s): "Youreka Edmonton aims to educate motivated high school students in the composition and presentation of a research project. This year, our initiative was funded in large part by APIRG, who graciously provided revenue that was essential in enhancing our student experience. Through their generosity, we were able to award $500 in cash prizes to our top research teams, and provide every student of ours with a full size scientific poster to remember their experience. We cannot thank APIRG enough for their generosity, inclusivity and support."
• Science FUNweek
  Funded 2020-2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VxWTS_hHPA From Event Organizer(s): "On behalf of the Science FUNdamentals Foundation of Alberta, we would like to sincerely thank the Alberta Public Interest Research Group for being a Platinum Sponsor of Science FUNweek 2021. With the help of APIRG, we were able to reach over 11,500 participants! While many of our viewers included families and classrooms from the Edmonton area, our event also hosted attendees across Canada and from countries such as the United States, Ireland, Ukraine, and Lebanon. Through the support of APIRG, we have been able to fulfill our commitment to “provide accessible science education for all” during these truly unprecedented times. Adapting our annual science exhibition in accordance with COVID-19 public health directives proved challenging, and so receiving APIRG’s support during these uncertain times has aided our organization immensely. It has been incredibly inspiring to have teachers, parents and students express the impact of their Science FUNweek experiences. We are so grateful for your support of our event and accessible science education. This sponsorship will ensure financial sustainability for future FUNday events and has undoubtedly positively impacted the curious minds of many young scientists."
• Getting Involved in Research & Writing 101 Webinars
  Funded 2020-2021 By STEM Fellowship UAlberta. "Thank you APIRG for helping STEM Fellowship reach our goals of making STEM research accessible to everyone. We appreciate all of your help in organizing our event and look forward to working together in the future again!"
• Black Graduate Students’ Association Conference 2021
  Funded 2020-2021 E-conference titled "The Black Student Experience in Academia" https://bgsa2021conference.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ "The University of Alberta’s Black Graduate Students’ Association would like to thank APIRG for its generous support and contribution toward making the BGSA 2021 Conference a huge success. The allotted funding ensured that we compensated our participants appropriately for the time and effort they expended in speaking about anti-Black racism, a topic that often requires vast outlays of emotional labor. Our dealings with you throughout the application and reimbursement process was seamless. Notably, Shima Robinson ensured that we had all the information needed to submit a strong application. Once our application was approved, Meara meticulously educated us on the reimbursement process. Furthermore, APIRG helped amplify our promotional material on Instagram, ensuring that news about the conference was spread to a wide audience. We are especially thankful for this assistance, as it helped increase the BGSA’s visibility across the student community at the University of Alberta, and the province, more generally. "
• University of Alberta Permaculture Group Aquaponics Research Facility
  Funded 2019-2020 From Funding Recipient(s): "The University of Alberta Permaculture group would like to extend a sincere thank you to APIRG for their support and funding. Our group focuses on sustainability by working towards growing food in an aquaponics system on campus and providing outreach activities in the community to students. This past year we started contacting schools and organizations to provide educational sessions that tie into the curriculum of elementary and secondary schools and to promote sustainability. We used APIRG funding to purchase materials for these learning events and were able to reach out to a school recently to do a virtual outreach activity. The demos we put together allow students to better understand the concepts being taught and were made possible by APIRG funding. Furthermore, APIRG funding has allowed us to purchase T-shirts with the University of Alberta Permaculture group logo so we are better recognized at schools, events, and sustainability fairs. Also, we were able to purchase equipment to help record our system, which will be used for outreach activities. Giving students the opportunity to see an aquaponics system, even if they cannot see it in person, will be a memorable experience and help promote sustainability. This grant allows us to continue to serve our mission of outreach for years to come. The ability to educate and excite people about the amazing sustainable technologies that can change the way we eat and live can not be understated and the support we received from APIRG has been an instrumental part in the initiation of that mission."
• 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.
• 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.
• Level7
  Funded 2020-2022 Level 7 believes in crafting a legacy of sustainability advocates who seek discomfort by challenging the status quo – they believe in action-driven change. Their project integrates an alternative recycling solution at the University of Alberta through the combination of people, platforms, and passion. By repurposing collected waste, they are able to provide various on-campus groups with education and eco-friendly materials. Uniting the community through sustainability and engineering, Level 7 provides a tangible solution to help mitigate the global waste crisis, while also striving to stimulate innovation in student groups.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Centre for Community Organizing and Popular Education (CCOPE)
  Funded 2010-2014 The Centre for Community Organizing and Popular Education is a coalition of academics, educators, activists and organizers interested in promoting positive social, political and economic change and building community in the face of global neo liberalism. Their goal is to establish an authentic space for solidarity, where people with diverse interests, experiences and abilities might exchange ideas, experience, information and resources, and above all rediscover the sustaining ability of true community.
• Spark Ed
  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).
• 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.
• Resources for Academic Excellence (RAE)
  Funded 2003-2004 RAE is dedicated to forming relationships between the newcomer community and post-secondary students. University students will be paired with newcomer youth from the community to offer free tutoring services. The objectives of RAE are to focus on disadvantaged youth, promote equal opportunity for education, help establish consistent study habits, provide a positive role model, build communication skills, and establish a long-term program in the community.
• Climate Change Talk
  Event photo of climate change talk.