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- 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
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- OneTime
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- ReRooting Relationships
- Singing Our Truths: Telling Our Stories
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- Young Minds Exploring Science
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- Your personal connection is your greatest strength
- Making your project a passion
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- Fourteen student-led teams win funding to realize community impact!
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- 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.
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- 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
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Haida Nerds
Team members: Lucy Bell (SFU Interdisciplinary Studies; Haida Repatriation Committee), Bryan Miles (Bill Reid Centre) & Vince Collison (Xaad Kil Nee (Haida Language Society))
There are many Haida scholars at SFU doing amazing work in Haida language and cultural revitalization. There is a need for these students to mobilize and gather to share their ideas, research findings, and to support one another. The “Haida Nerds” project goal is to first bring Haida grad students together for support in monthly gatherings (a hybrid of virtual and in-person) to give one another support, share Haida language and traditions, discuss our schooling and research. Uniting the Haida students at SFU will also contribute to student retention and graduation as creating a family of scholars will improve mental and spiritual well-being.
But there is also a need for Haida researchers to engage with the Haida community on Haida Gwaii to ground their research, do meaningful participatory action work and contribute to Haida community scholarship. We will have the opportunity to network with organizations on Haida Gwaii and to engage and learn from elders, artists, youth, and other researchers we invite. The project will also engage Haida SFU students with the Haida Repatriation Committee, the Haida Gwaii Museum, the Haida language, the Bill Reid Centre, and the Bill Reid Gallery to strengthen the research for all. Students will share their research concepts and delve into the resources at the Bill Reid Centre where thousands of photographs and other archival resources are held and learn about the resources in the Haida community. These engagements will connect Haida students with other Haida experts in our fields and provide a supportive, interdisciplinary environment rooted in Haida epistemology, pedagogy, and axiology.
Community partners:
Haida Repatriation committee, Xaad Kil Nee, Bill Reid Gallery, Bill Reid Centre, Haida Gwaii museum
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.