Many skateboard youth struggle with feelings of isolation, depression, anxiety, and marginalization. Our project purpose is a response to the felt need for more community support resources, consistent programs, and accessible events within the skateboarding community of Calgary, and southern Alberta. Our response involves a comprehensive summer program structure including both bi-weekly gatherings and a large community skate contest.
Bi-weekly programs will engage 75 youth through 5 small pop-up contest events around Calgary’s skateparks in summer 2023. Shredz Fest, our community contest, will reach over 200 participants across diverse and inclusive categories, plus 250 spectators.
To inspire female hockey players in their local communities to excel in hockey and academically by having players from the University of Windsor women’s team coach the communities where they came from originally.
The purpose of our project is to provide a skating program and coaching to youth in the highly underserved & low income community of Ogden. By providing a Learn to Skate program through our youth centre we are offering a free program where no programs currently exist. We will provide skates & safety equipment & training to kids after school in George Moss Park where the community creates a rink each year. George Moss Park is directly across the road from our youth centre. We will hire coaches to teach skills, leadership & mentorship & have practicum students support. Ogden kids include many first generation immigrants who do not have access to or skill in skating. We create equality in the community where everyone gets to play & learn.
The Foundation has been the main partner for the annual Jane’s Walks for many years. For the last few years Calgary Foundation has therefore been working with various community partners to identify a group who could ‘adopt’ the program from us. FFCCS is eager to hire staff to run the program and to begin advertising and branding it as their own. We offered financial support from the Foundation to help ease the transition.
Women gather to learn about parenting and to break isolation
Neighbour gather donations to help their peers feel supported and connected during the holidays despite trying personal circumstances.
Volunteers within the Oromo community gather people to identify community priorities and make plans
Cows and Fish, with Miistakis, will educate and engage communities to increase coexistence and reduce conflict with beavers resulting in watershed restoration and cultural reconnections. By piloting beaver dam analogs and other coexistence techniques; incorporating citizen science to help identify priority locations for coexistence; and working with landowners and land managers at the local level we showcase the value of these techniques reduce intolerance and offer viable solutions.
Encountering communication barriers creates feelings of alienation or mistrust; it segregates people with differences and prevents them from connecting and engaging with society. Deaf and Hear Alberta offers service, technology and program solutions to reduce or eliminate current communication barriers requiring funds to develop, deliver and promote them to Calgarians. Funding will build organizational capacity to fulfill the evolving needs of the present-day Deaf and hard of hearing community.
After closing its doors in 2020 Distress Centre Calgary (DCC) lost 50% of volunteers supporting its crisis programs. As the only 24/7 crisis line in Calgary DCC diverted staff to fill the gap. To date DCC is experiencing an increase in the complexity of cases requiring staff and/or volunteers to spend more time on the lines. We need to expand our crisis programs and increase volunteer recruitment to meet these demands. 50 – 75 new volunteers are needed now.