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• Prairie Sage Protectors (PSP)

  Funded 2021-2022 Prairie Sage Protectors was established in amiskwaciwaskahikan (Edmonton AB) in 2021 by a group of Black, Indigenous and colonized people of colour, new and experienced organizers, who saw a need for a more unified and radical response across the Prairies to the ongoing/escalating oppression of the state and its agents (police & military, fascists) against Indigenous, Black, immigrant, queer, unhoused/displaced, impoverished, and otherwise marginalized people.

• 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.

• RootUp

  Funded 2021-2022 RootUp is a group of students in Edmonton committed to bringing cultures together and creating a community that helps newcomers, such as immigrants and refugees, feel at home in a new environment while sharing their unique cultural identities with Edmonton’s mosaic.

• 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.

• Yard Share YEG

  Funded 2021 Yard Share YEG’s program aims to reduce barriers, empower communities, and increase food security through sharing yard space as a unique alternative to community gardens. Yard hosts and gardeners are matched through an online platform and are provided supplies for continuous support. Gardeners grow food in the host’s yard while sharing a small portion of their harvest with the host as an exchange. This collaboration provides the opportunity for those who are food insecure to share space in which to grow food.

• The CrW

  Funded 2020-2021 University of Alberta's Creative Writing Club. A social space for writers on campus.

• The Hue YEG

  Funded 2020-2021 The Hue is a QTBIPOC+ Community Hub. Building community and advocating for QTBIPOC+ inclusion, accessibility, and safety in Edmonton.

• Indigenous Medical and Dental Students’ Association (IMDSA)

  Funded 2019-2021 The Indigenous Medical and Dental Students’ Association (IMDSA) is a group of Indigenous students at the University of Alberta in the medical and dental programs from a variety of backgrounds who are passionate about their culture and Indigenous health. The IMDSA was founded in 2018 and is the first of its kind in Canada. All Indigenous medical and dental students accepted to the University of Alberta are automatically members of the IMDSA and hold the responsibilities associated with membership. Their mission is to represent, encourage, and advocate for future Indigenous health care providers while staying grounded in traditions and teachings. Through a positive narrative, they promote an Indigenous presence in health professions through mentorship and support with career transitions.

• 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.

• Chinese Diaspora Sharing Circles

  Funded 2019-2021 Chinese Diaspora Sharing Circle is an open and inclusive dialogue for overseas Chinese people to safely share their opinions regarding cultural identity, social issues and their life in Canada. The group aims to engage and give Chinese youth ready to speak up and talk about the oppression and traumas faced by and to the Chinese community in Canada.

• YEGTheComeUp (TCU)

  Funded 2019-2020 YEGTheComeUp (TCU) is a youth program under the Africa Centre. The collective works towards empowering and sharing various voices and experiences of young peoples of African and Caribbean descent. By coming together to discuss youth-relevant topics through the inclusion of diverse cultures and experiences, YEGTheComeUp provides a means for building and supporting identity, collective and self-awareness and community

• South Sudanese Youth of Edmonton (SSYEG)

  Funded 2020 The South Sudanese Youth of Edmonton (SSYEG) is a group that is aspiring to connect and empower South Sudanese youth (SSY) across the Edmonton region. By engaging youth in a series of workshops, events and volunteer opportunities. In addition SSYEG focuses on the integration of newcomers into Canadian society and assists in maintaining their unique ethnic heritage and culture. Furthermore, SSYEG strives to connect Edmonton based SSY to other active SSY groups across the country

• Sexual Violence Advocacy and Accountability Network (SVAAN)

  Funded 2019-2020 The Sexual Violence Advocacy and Accountability Network (SVAAN) commits to ending sexual violence in the hospitality and arts industries and the shared communities of their membership through survivor-centered restorative justice

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Indigenous Poets’ Society

  Funded 2020-2022 Their goal is to help promote healing, growth, leadership, connection, and resiliency through poetry. They come together not only to discuss social struggles, but to heal by celebrating connections with land, culture, history and identity. They provide a space where Indigenous poets can feel heard and understood by their own people and sometimes allies. They also support new poets who wish to branch out and share their words with the rest of the world. Poets of all levels, styles, and ages are welcome.

• 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.

• Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP)

  Funded 2018-2021 Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy is a grassroots network of youth and students who are concerned about the negative impact drug policies have on individuals and communities. They consider problematic drug use in society primarily a health issue rather than a criminal justice issue, and they advocate for appropriate responses to reduce and prevent harm from drug use. They mobilize their members to participate in the political process at all levels, pushing for sensible policies to achieve a safer and more just future, while combating counterproductive drug policies, particularly those that directly harm young people. CSSDP works alongside other organizations and campaigns to support harm reduction, evidence-based legislation, and drug policy reform on local, national and international levels.

• Shades of Colour (SOC)

  Funded 2018-2020 Shades of Colour is a grassroots collective located within treaty 6. They are QTBIPOCs (Queer + Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) making space for other QTBIPOCs who need this space to breathe. They hope that this will help to fill the gaps within community in ways that affirm our experiences and identity and move towards strengthening healthy multi-generational relationships that are needed.

• Voices of Albertans with Disabilities Society (VAD)

  Funded 2018-2019 Voice of Albertans with Disabilities (VAD) is dedicated to supporting individuals, organizations, government representatives, schools, business personnel and employers to reduce the barriers and find solutions that prevent full participation.

• Self-Advocacy Federation

  Funded 2018-2019 The Self-Advocacy Federation is an organization comprised of people with disabilities and their allies who get together to discuss the issues facing people with disabilities.

• The Prairie Youth Radical Organizing School (PYROS)

  Funded 2018-2019 The Prairie Youth Radical Organizing School (PYROS) is a coalition of social justice, labour, and faith-based organizations that provides young people on the prairies with the tools to challenge injustice in their schools and communities through collective action. The Queer Scout program hosts an annual summer camp for LGBTQ2S+ youth between the ages of 14-24 in late July, and launched it’s cohort leadership program in the Fall of 2018.

• Land Based Research Group

  Funded 2019 The Land Based Research Group is focused on amplifying Indigenous ways of knowing and being by creating art that represents experiences of Indigenous people in Edmonton on the topic of connecting with the land. They are currently working on an art exhibition for Edmonton communities.