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• Alternatives to the Canadian Banking & Economic System (ACBES)
  Funded 2005-2007 ACBES strives to research ways in which to change the current Canadian economic system into one that is more sustainable (economically and environmentally), seeking alternatives that focus on local and community supported systems.
• Youth Anti-Racism Project (YAP)
  Funded 2003-2004 YAP’s objectives are to recruit and train new volunteers and conduct anti-racism education workshops. YAP volunteers are committed to mobilizing other youth.
• University of Alberta Women's Centre Collective (UAWCC)
  Funded 2003-2012 The U of A Women’s Centre exists to provide a supportive environment for education, networking and organizing around women-specific issues within the campus community and beyond. It is a space dedicated to community building and activism, supporting women and women-positive groups to connect, dialogue, organize and create around issues and ideas. The Centre offer funding and administrative resources to support groups in carrying out their projects.
• Students for a Free Tibet
  Funded 2003-2004 Students for a Free Tibet recognizes the historical and legal status of Tibet as an independent country and supports the rights of Tibetans to determine their own future. Students for a Free Tibet uses various strategies in order to educate campuses and communities about the situation in Tibet, and to turn the awareness into positive action. They work with a variety of other Tibet support groups and human rights organizations. Underlying all activities is a commitment to non-violence, recognition for the need for universal responsibility and an interdependent world, and a firm belief that young people can and must take leadership in changing our world.
• South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA)
  Funded 2003-2004 SALSA aims to promote an understanding and appreciation of South Asian political, legal, and social issues with the overarching goal of highlighting the importance of legal discourse across borders. SALSA seeks to create a supportive community for law students, encourage South Asian involvement in the legal arena, and promote awareness of South Asian cultures and issues including, but not limited to, those of a social, political, and legal nature.
• Safe Zone
  Funded 2003-2004 There are two basic aspects to the SafeZone mandate.The first goal is education, raising awareness about various Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) issues faced by LGBTQ people at a University campus. The second aspect is to identify and train LGBTQ allies that exist at the U of A and beyond.
• 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.
• Peregrine Falcon Webcam
  Funded 2003-2004 The Environmental Coordination Office of Students (ECOS) initiated a project to plant a webcam in the nest of a peregrine falcon couple nesting at the top of the Clinical Sciences building on the U of A campus.
• iHuman Youth Society
  Funded 2003-2004 iHuman Youth Society engages Edmonton's marginalized youth to foster positive personal development, wellbeing and social change.
• Campus Community Garden
  Funded 2003-2008 Goals: To produce food on campus without the use of pesticides, chemicals, genetically modified plants, or treated city water. To provide organic, fresh, and healthy food for students through the Campus Food Bank, a market garden, or another similar program. To create nature-connected recreational opportunities for students. To promote the cultivation of local, hardy, and easily managed vegetables.
• Brazil: Social Democratic Governance
  Funded 2003-2004 Goals: To develop a report on recent social change in Brazil, to provide observations on continuing political developments in Brazil, and to investigate how a social democratic government like the one represented by Lula can improve social development. Accomplished through the development of a small library collection devoted to resources on Brazil, the completion of a comprehensive and interactive website, the production of a short 20 minute documentary about Brazil’s current political environment, the continuation of presentations about Brazil, the compilation of a working group newsletter to print and distribute, and the sponsorship of a speaker from Brazil to do presentations about the situation in Brazil.
• Addressing AIDS
  Funded 2003-2004 This group hopes to increase public awareness of the local and global relevance of HIV/AIDS and the urgent need to arrest the free-falling cycle of infection. They are working to provide a supportive and integrative grass-roots approach to health care education, outreach, and advocacy for at-risk populations in Edmonton, especially those who “fall through the cracks” and have little or no voice in the community. Addressing AIDS hopes to rally the political will to devote more resources to addressing the HIV/AIDS problem and to empower people to break down the barriers impeding a solution to the AIDS stigma at home and the urgent AIDS pandemic abroad.
• Track-tion
  Funded 2002-2003 Track-tion is a sports event for persons with mental disabilities. Competitors are matched with individuals called “counselors” (somewhat similar to the camp counselor concept) who will spend the day with them providing support and friendship. Some of the sporting activities are open to the counselors as well, and everyone participates in the leisure and social activities together.
• The Olive
  Funded 2003-2011 The Olive is a non-profit editorial collective established by students and former students at the University of Alberta in 2000 to provide a regular and consistent forum for poetry in Edmonton. The mandate of the organization is to feature local writers and poets from across Canada. The Olive fosters an environment where local writers and poetry enthusiasts can interact with artists from the larger literary community.
• Student Worker Action Group (SWAG)
  Funded 2002-2010 SWAG organizes around issues that affect working class students, either students who work jobs while going to school, or students as workers in training. This includes teaching students how to organize unions, working with unions on campus, and struggling to improve the conditions of student labour.
• Students for Indian Development (SFID)
  Funded 2002-2003 During the summer of 2003, thirteen Canadians journeyed to Pune, India to spend a month volunteering with two local non-governmental organizations.
• Simplefood Organic Food Cooperative
• Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC)
  Funded 2003-2004 The Sierra Youth Coalition Working Group encourages awareness and action on environmental issues through lobbying and consciousness-raising on the University campus and the greater Edmonton community. Our mandate is to seek coalitions amongst other groups with similar mandates to assert our collective voice to move us on a path of greater ecological and social sustainability. In Spring (2003) a group of students formed an APIRG working group under the banner of the Sierra Youth Coalition, UofA Chapter. The plan was to form an environmental activist group on campus and create greater awareness about environmental issues, especially those pertaining to the campus ecosystem. The Environmental Coordination Office of Students (ECOS) was a contributing member of this working group.
• Media Working Group
  Funded 2002-2003 Media working group members are committed to providing a structured, objective, and credible media analysis. In collaboration with the U of A Coalition Against War and Racism, we completed an analysis of the local newspaper coverage of the situation in Iraq.
• Lal
  Funded 2002-2003 Lal is a media collective that provides technical services to make it easier for non-profits to use the internet for promotion, communication, and collaboration. Lal plans to research the needs of non-profit groups, develop opensource software to meet those needs, and make our results publicly available to other groups.
• Kyoto Working Group
  Funded 2002-2003 The Alberta In Kyoto Investigation Group was set up to analyze the potential effects of the Kyoto Protocol on the province of Alberta’s environment, people, economy and industry.
• Just Java
  Funded 2002-2003 Just Java in its first year was a group of eight U of A students and the United Church Chaplain, all of whom were affiliated in some way with the United Church of Canada. These people were united in their desire to live their faith convictions in actions promoting social change. In its first year Just Java set forward the following goals: to educate ourselves about the issues related to fair trade, to educate people on campus about the issue of fair trade coffee, to encourage coffee retailers to sell fair trade, to increase the demand for fair trade coffee on campus.
• House of Mother Earth (HOME) Project
• FUSS Feminist Collective
  Funded 2002-2003 FUSS endeavors to bring in speakers and resources and create a safe space in which any interested parties could discuss and organize around feminist ideals on campus. FUSS has focused on issues of sexuality, self-representation, and workers’ rights (particularly in relation to sex work).
• Fait Accomplit
  Funded 2002-2003 Fait Accomplit is a biannual creative/critical literary journal that was originally founded in 1985 by the graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta.