I Challenge Diabetes is looking to conduct two five-day Diabetes Sports Camps in Calgary at the Calgary Soccer Centre from August 12-23, 2024. These camps will welcome an estimated 60 children and youth aged 5-15 living with type 1 diabetes with safe access to sports programming to build their diabetes management and self-care skills and promote healthy, active lifestyles. This grant will go towards supporting the staffing and venue rental costs associated with operating the camp.
UFO: Ukrainian Family Outreach and Wellness will enhance the mental health and well-being of Ukrainian families in Calgary who have fled the war. Using a holistic, activity-based approach, TIES proposes a preventative mental health initiative that builds individual and family resilience and strengthens positive connections within and between families. This grant will support facilitation of UFO activities.
The Ta Otha Indigenous Reconciliation Society is developing an Indigenous Entrepreneur Economic Reconciliation Program that will be delivered from a culturally relevant four step medicine wheel approach and in the Stoney Nakoda language. The grant will go towards organizational development and capacity building in the areas of Governance, Feasibility Study and Curriculum Content Development.
This initiative is a partnership between Oldman Watershed Council (OWC), Blood Tribe Land Management, and Piikani Nation Land Management. Our objectives focus on habitat restoration, education, and knowledge-sharing to support cultural revival, boost resilience, improve water quality and quantity, and collectively build capacity for partners to braid Niitsitapi knowledge and western science together. This grant will fund education programming and ecological restoration implementation costs.
PCHS Calgary wishes to continue to enhance its counseling model by incorporating a community outreach program. This model includes a caseworker and a therapist who can conduct visits / therapy in the community (religious institutions, community centers, hospitals, physician offices) and offer after-hours support, reducing access barriers and embedding PCHS / mental health support in the community. This grant will go towards the therapist and caseworker cost, travel and promotion.
ARBI is seeking external expertise for support in assessing growth opportunities through either expansion, merger or acquisition that will increase support programs available to individuals and families affected by acquired brain injury in the Calgary region.
The Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley recently identified no fewer than three highly important consultations in the Bow Valley that will run concurrently, launching in September 2023 and running until March 2024. These initiatives are all multi-stakeholder consultations seeking solutions to key conservation, climate, and sustainability issues, with long-term implications for the residents and visitors to the Bow Valley.
Robust community involvement is essential but will be very challenging to achieve. We will use enhanced information and outreach strategies to build community capacity and ensure engagement – and employ novel approaches to ensure that the voices of equity-deserving communities are heard in these consultations.
EFry transformed our work from a focus on incarcerated populations to an empowerment model through Indigenous restorative justice principles to prevent incarceration and work from a healing centred approach. From this perspective, we work from a “for Indigenous by Indigenous” perspective to leverage healing through cultural traditions, ceremony, and connection to community. For the past 3.5 years we have led the restorative processes of the Calgary Indigenous Court exhibiting life changing results for those who struggled from the effects of intergenerational traumas and have been systemically criminalized. This project will enhance our current work by increasing healing for individuals, their families, and their communities.
The Board of Directors of Inside Education is in the initial stage of recruiting for its Executive Director, with the pending (2024) retirement of its second-ever chief executive. As this is the first time such a formal succession plan/recruitment undertaking has been done in the organization’s 38 year history, a subcommittee of the Inside Education Board is proposing to hire a third-party executive recruitment firm to assist in a comprehensive recruiting process, and to provide professional development to the Board as to leading practices in not-for-profit/charitable recruitment.
MitoCanada is supporting the MitoCommunity through MitoConnect, a free online Peer Support Program for individuals living with, or caring for someone with, mitochondrial dysfunction. The program offers a compassionate and educational solution for those seeking advice, emotional and mental health support, and information about living day-to-day with mitochondrial dysfunction.