To provide financial support for the production and promotion of the annual Jane’s Walk Program in 2024 and 2025.
This is the second iteration of the joint initiative between Calgary Arts Development, the Rozsa Foundation, and the Calgary Foundation. The Future Focus program is aimed at supporting arts organizations to investigate, plan, and implement strategic adaptations in their operations to build capacity, strengthen business models, explore new directions, examine structural change, and address life cycle questions. Organizations will be asked to speak to how equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility are embedded into this work.
Parents and community members produce a downloadable colouring book to teach children about African heritage
Children learn about multiculturalism through art then share their work with the community
Tenants of a supportive housing complex and their supporters transform an under-used part of their neighbourhood into an all-ages gathering spot.
Community volunteers build a new accessible playground for the neighbourhood.
The Calgary LGBTQ2S+ Community Centre Viability Project proposal is to conduct community research with the LGBTQ2S+ community regarding the viability of changing the End of the Rainbow Foundation’s scope of work to pursue opening a publicly open space for an LGBTQ2S+ community centre. The project will investigate the subcommunities that are underserved by existing Calgary services, who and how would benefit within the LGBTQ2S+ community, the core services it should possibility offer, and the capacity requirements for the End of the Rainbow Foundation to host and sustain such a project.
Leftovers is seeking external human resources support to analyze and redefine the position of Rescue Food City Coordinator. Recent internal challenges, including high turnover in the position, have demonstrated the need to revise the role of City Coordinator as it currently exists. The goal of the project is to recruit and retain talented City Coordinators in order to increase the Rescue Food program’s capacity to redirect good food.
This project involves a strategic alliance between the Southern Alberta Brain Injury Society (SABIS) and a carefully-selected unnamed organization (for confidentiality purposes at this stage, herein referred to as ‘UO’). This strategy ensures SABIS’ sustainability amidst growing demand and an increasingly competitive funding landscape. The alliance, or partnership, aims to enhance service delivery, achieve financial stability, and strengthen community representation. Careful planning, due diligence, and stakeholder engagement are key to managing potential challenges during the transition process, aimed for completion by September 2023. SABIS is well underway in conversations with UO and this support will enable the project to move forward.
NSTEP is transforming as an organization with a new direction for structure and growth. At this critical time for scaling NSTEP, our organization requires a different structure to be more efficient and grow accordingly. NSTEP, along with a strategic consultant, is developing a work plan for strategic redevelopment. Complete organizational transformation will include encompassing changes in board structure, roles and responsibilities, integration of digital programs and learning systems, and optimizing program delivery. By implementing this plan, NSTEP aims to expand its reach, improve impact and effectively support the mental and physical health of children and individuals.