To get 50 – 60 newcomer teen girls and other girls who face barriers into our safe inclusive FREE ice hockey and life skills program. Our goal is to ensure that these teen girls have access to equipment, ice-time, coaching and experiential learning opportunities including field trips to hockey games, financial literacy training, coding classes and hockey art projects (skate skins).
The Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area wishes to restore its beehives so that it is able to provide honey to its volunteers as a way of thanking them for helping fulfil its mandate. It also hopes to produce enough additional honey to sell to help off-set the cost of honey production. Based on past experience, it is likely that total production will amount to approximately 200 kilograms of honey. The pollination the bees provides also helps to maintain the spectacular wildflowers found on the Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area. The new fencing has been designed to protect the beehives for many years to come.
The purpose of this project is for the BSMF Board members, staff, and key stakeholders to work with an Action Edge Executive Coach to complete three 45-minute coaching sessions. The overall rationale for engaging with an Executive Coach is to align and prepare the BSMF Board, staff, and other key stakeholders for Strategic Planning sessions to develop and finalize BSMF’s first formal Strategic Plan.
As an agency located in the beltline and working in mental health, CanLearn (CL) recognizes that it is imperative to build their capacity to identify and mitigate risks and develop robust and easily accessed safety and emergency procedures for the well-being of their staff, volunteers and clients. A consultant will work with CL’s Safety Committee to examine and identify common and CanLearn specific risks, pull together their existing health and safety policies, manuals and emergency procedures into one enhanced, easy to use manual and create robust mitigations including developing emergency procedures and scenario training for staff. Our goal is to have the safest place possible for our employees, volunteers, clients and learners.
RESET amended its by-laws & constitution in 2021 to promote the tenets & values tied to operating in a manner that is professional, innovative, compassionate, relationship-based, & in the context of mutuality, & governance through policy, where the framework focuses on the welfare & development of its Participants, Alumnae, staff, & volunteers.
The initiative will update the governance processes & resources to enhance decision-making, accountability frameworks & reporting structures & will align with our governance values. This will create stronger leadership at the board & committee level that will guide & support the work of the Executive Director. This will greatly enhance the operational team’s ability when working front-line.
Umoja Community Mosaic has developed an approach to turning grassroots community initiatives into robust, sustainable organizations, without relinquishing community ownership and impact. This project will help Umoja leverage this approach for the benefit of other newcomer communities, specifically those representing the African Diaspora, to ultimately broaden the scope of community-owned work in Calgary.
Student volunteers provide peers and community members with strategies for mental health wellness
Volunteers commemorate the role of women and the value of equity and inclusion
Volunteers organize free public events to lift spirits through learning dances of Peru and popular culture
Volunteers run four weeks of an affordable multicultural summer day camp to help newcomer children from Hong Kong and other places connect with their new communities