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• All Spoons Project
  Funded 2021-2022 Ubuntu-Mobilizing Central Alberta is a registered non profit with an engaging youth council that is made up of high school and university students. We focus on equity, justice, solidarity and providing access for Black people and other communities that have been historically marginalized in central Alberta. Our mission statement is to act as a bridge and connect communities through advocacy and community building. We have completed numerous projects which focused on gender equity, queer representation, diversity, community advocacy and community engagement. In response to food insecurity in central Alberta amongst historically marginalized communities Ubuntu started the All Spoons Project to share skills and resources for participants to learn how to start and maintain a garden. Visit their website to learn more: https://ubuntualberta.com/
• 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."
• Helping Hands For Homeless Youth package
  Funded 2020-2021
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• LGBTQ Newcomers and Refugees
  Funded 2017-2018 Creates supportive safer community for LGBTQ newcomer and refugee youth in Edmonton.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Canadian Council for Refugees - Youth Network Edmonton (CCRYNE)
  Funded 2011-2014 As part of the Canadian Council for Refugees, the Youth Network gives youth and youth allies a voice to address challenges faced by newcomer youth and a space to share ideas on how to meet these challenges. The Youth Network works within a gender justice and anti-oppression framework.
• 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).
• 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.
• iHuman Youth Society
  Funded 2003-2004 iHuman Youth Society engages Edmonton's marginalized youth to foster positive personal development, wellbeing and social change.