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- Projects
- 2023
- The Boat People Art Installation
- Downtown Eastside Art Engagement Project
- Ears That Listen, Hands That Help
- Food For Marginalized Youth
- GenConnect: Connecting Punjabi Seniors & Youth
- Inside Out
- Mitti Vancouver
- NaloxHome Community Panel: It Takes a Community: Exploring the Forces Behind BC’s Overdose Crisis
- One Tap Away: A chatbot to bridge the service gap in gender-based violence services
- Orange BC Run
- Read For Our Lives
- Rooted In
- Solastalgia Zine
- 2022
- Knowledge Translation Re-imagining: Healthcare in the DTES
- Memorializing the First Filipino in Canada: A documentary
- Mixed-Race Community Group: Exploring Self, Ancestries, and Lands
- Documenstory - Ashcroft Youth Media Club
- The Process of Political Activism
- Happy, Connected, Resilient Neighbours
- Crafting Circles
- Trans Connect-ing Youth in Sport
- Ocean Care through Data Embodying and Behaviour Changes
- Let’s Do Breakfast
- Empowering Muslim Youth
- Peer Connect: Accessibility Meet up/ Games Night
- The Reclamation of Women's Bundles
- 2021
- ACSSPA Sewing Mask Project
- Art for Comfort: Art for Connection
- BC Newcomer Camp
- Burnaby Mountain Festival
- Generation BXY
- Glow Within Foundation
- Haida Nerds
- Hastings Folk Garden Sound Map
- Indigenous Tutoring and Mentoring Program (ITMP)
- Math Walks
- NaloxHome SFU
- OMG I have ADHD
- OneTime
- Public Health Speaks
- ReRooting Relationships
- Singing Our Truths: Telling Our Stories
- Voices 4 Reconciliation
- Young Minds Exploring Science
- 2020
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- 2018
- 2017
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- 2023
- News & stories
- Downtown Eastside Art Engagement Project
- Thirteen student-led teams launch impactful community partnerships.
- Your personal connection is your greatest strength
- Making your project a passion
- Cooking up a breakfast program with love
- Fourteen student-led teams win funding to realize community impact!
- Leaders & Learners
- These 18 teams are springing into action with community
- Develop your capacity as a changemaker – and have fun!
- Embracing the complexity: pivoting as a practice.
- You know what’s not scary? $3,000 to fund your awesome project.
- SFU student creates youth-led overdose education and naloxone training during B.C.’s overdose crisis
- SFU student-community partnership creates local impact in Surrey
- SFU Students Exemplify the Spirit of Innovation and Community Engagement at the Annual President’s Gala
- Co-creation is difficult. And it's worth it.
- Hands-on for impact
- Congratulations to this year’s winners!
- On power and engagement – an interview with Aslam Bulbulia (excerpted)
- Herbert’s story: how one shopping cart made a difference.
- Don't wait for perfection – jump in
- Congratulations to our 2017-18 finalists and winners
- Discover what’s possible when university students and communities work together
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Projects 2020
2020 FINALISTS
GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNER
AutDialogues
AutDialogues is a two-day series of online community dialogues on improving mental health among autistic youth and adults in BC and Ontario. Read more →
Team members: Vivian Ly (SFU), Iris Parker (North Island College)
GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNER
BYO
BYO — is a mobile app-based program that motivates individuals to bring their own cup through a variety of mechanisms such as rewards and impact tracking. Read more →
Team members: Priscilla Lam (SFU), Angelica Tso (UBC)
GRAND PRIZE AWARD (SURREY) WINNER
SPARK Foundation
SPARK foundation staff, volunteers and board members will come together virtually to research, collect, purchase and package care packages for 500 families in Surrey BC. Read more →
Team members: Amandeep Boparai (SFU), Rochelle Prasad (SFU)
GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNER
NaloxHome
The overdose crisis hits close to home, NaloxHome will provide much-needed overdose education and naloxone training to youth in the Tri-Cities area. Read more →
Team members: Chloe Goodison (SFU)
GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNER
Special Olympics Home Workouts
Special Olympics Home Workouts is a 7 week virtual fitness and health education program for Special Olympics British Columbia (SOBC) athletes based in Vancouver and Burnaby. Read more→
Team members: Julie Seal (SFU), Sophie Kitchen (SOBC Coach), Rui Ando (SOBC Coach), Janna Werry (SOBC Staff)
GRAND PRIZE AWARD & BURNABY FESTIVAL OF LEARNING AWARD WINNER
Talking Trekkers
The goal of Talking Trekkers is to provide a safer and welcoming space for newly arrived refugee womxn to engage with each other, and other womxn in the greater Vancouver area. Read more →
Team members: Naima Osman (SFU), Tsion Gebremedhen (SFU)
GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNER
Visible Movement Project
We want to bring the Anatomage Table — an engaging, interactive digital experience to high school students in Burnaby, Surrey, Vancouver and across BC. Read more →
Team members: Linden Lechner (SFU), Camille Velasco (SFU), Benjamin Chang (SFU), Natasha Smith (SFU Alumni)
GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNER
Unitiate
Unitiate provides a free online platform accessible by high school students to receive the support they need to get into their desired career and post-secondary institution. Read more →
Team members: Guo Hong (SFU), Darshpreet Badyal (SFU)
DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA FOR CHANGE?
Up to $30,000* is available to fund SFU students who want to work with community partners to drive meaningful, lasting impact.
Maybe you’re working on an existing idea for a class you’re taking, through a student club or another organization, or maybe you just have an amazing idea that keeps you up at night.... Whatever it is, we want to hear from you!
Start the process now by registering today and then submitting your idea before November 22 – all you need is your passion and an idea.
* Award amounts subject to change.