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• Writing Revolution in Place (WRIP)
  Funded 2017-2018 A grassroots reading and writing group that collaborates with Humanities 101 at the University of Alberta.
• 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.
• LGBTQ Newcomers and Refugees
  Funded 2017-2018 Creates supportive safer community for LGBTQ newcomer and refugee youth in Edmonton.
• 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.
• African Students' Association
  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.
• Speak Out! On Campus
  Funded 2003-2004
• Sounds of Dissent
  Funded 2003-2004
• 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.
• In Arms Queer Theatre
  Funded 2015 In Arms is the first queer mandated theatre company in Edmonton. With the intention of expanding beyond the confines of the University, In Arms hopes to serve the broader Edmonton community by nurturing the Edmonton Theatre community with yearly original devised plays as well as professional productions. Further, Drama Based Queer Education programs that work with a variety of groups will enrich our city’s culture of queer theory. The fight against homophobia, transphobia, sexism, and patriarchal power imbalances is rooted in a strong and confident educated stance. Through the use of the arts, In Arms will be another voice telling all its current and prospective citizens that they are welcome in our city.
• 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.
• I See Sprouts
  Funded 2013-2014 I See Sprouts is a non-profit program that is aimed at teaching inner city, and new Canadian children their role in community based food security and sustainability. The program centers on a child driven approach at teaching the students how to make wholesome, local, seasonal, and affordable food. The program raises awareness within the University of Alberta community of the importance of our food security. It also provides volunteer opportunities for University of Alberta students.
• Edmonton Film Collective (EFC)
  Funded 2013-2014
• Blue University
  Funded 2014 Blue University is a group that brings together students and community members to provide a resource for individuals and student groups seeking to use water more responsibly, and to advocate for environmental justice. They strive to encourage sustainable attitudes towards water practices and usage amongst faculty, staff, and students at the U of A by hosting and promoting “Blue” events and gatherings. Blue University hopes to build working relationships with both student and community groups by offering services and information that enables groups to host “bottled water-free” events and encouraging the use and protection of tap water on campus and beyond.
• Democracy at Work Network (DAWN)
  Funded 2012-2013
• 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.
• Peace Ambassadors
  Funded 2011-2012 The goal of Peace Ambassadors was to be a peer to peer training group for youth that educates youth about issues of racism and oppression and provide youth with the skills and tools to peacefully resolve conflict surrounding racism and other forms of oppression should they see it or witness it. Interactive workshops using popular education as the method of delivery were the most effective tool for delivering this message and educating youth.
• 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.