Field Law is pleased to announce the Award winners of the 2016 Field Law Community Fund Program. See below to find out which Ideas were selected to receive funding in 2016. Congratulations to all.
SOUND OFF: A Deaf Theatre Festival
SOUND OFF will be the first Deaf Theatre Festival in Canadian history. Both the UK and the USA have several theatre companies dedicated to Deaf artists and audiences. Canada has none. The primary aim of SOUND OFF is to increase...
Adapted Bike Program – Special Bikes for Special Kids
Kids with cerebral palsy and other physical disabilities often face numerous obstacles while determining a safe, appropriate activity to keep them physically active. Having a modified bike allows them to ride in the community with their family and friends and...
Literacy and Homework Programs – Boys & Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton (BGCBigs)
We are proposing funding be used specifically to enhance literacy and homework programs, which happens across all nine of our clubs for all children and youth who attend. Via this existing programming, we’re targeting newcomer, immigrant and Aboriginal children and...
HackSpace NT
In 2016/17, WAMP will offer a workshop series to give Northern youth a chance to gain practical experience in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields. The NWT has great need for youth who are excited, passionate, and educated in STEM...
Personal Care Items
The Women’s Centre would like to increase funding to our Basic Needs Assistance program in order to support more women in times of crisis. When resources allow, we provide women with access to food and personal care items such as...
Spruce Grove Public Library Presents: Bibliotherapy Wellness Backpacks
As a result of increasing accessibility and removing barriers to our programs and services, SGPL has partnered with many organizations in our community to better serve our residents. Based on the success of our Literacy Backpacks, one partnership project we...
SOUPER KIDS
“Warming hearts…one bowl at a time” this is the Soup Sisters mission. Our Organization is an innovative community-building program that is 100% volunteer driven at the event-level. Using the concept of a community coming together in the making, sharing and...
Put a Kid to Bed
The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Edmonton Central Council is a social justice organization that has been serving the disadvantaged in the Capital Region of Alberta since 2000. We are part of a worldwide movement that currently operates in...
Living the Journey: Cancer Peer Support for the NWT
The NWT Breast Health/Breast Cancer Action Group wants to build cancer peer support in NWT communities, by providing peer support training to cancer survivors from each region of the NWT. In the great majority of NWT communities there are no...
Bissell Centre Community Food Initiative
Food security has been identified as a global challenge in countless studies and reports, and Edmonton is no different. There are thousands of people in the Edmonton area who are unable to afford or access healthy, nutritious, and culturally appropriate...
School PALS – pet therapy for youth at risk
The Pet Access League Society (PALS) believes all Calgarians should have access to no cost pet therapy. For over 30 year PALS has been responding to the needs of an ever changing Calgary and the creation of our newest program...
Be a BUDDY not a BULLY martial arts youth empowerment campaign Yellowknife
Yellowknife seminars open to all children and youth to attend. Seminars are specifically designed to help the youth understand what bullying really is and how it negatively effects the community. We layout out safe and practical ways of dealing with...
Food Forest Project
We are taking an unused space on our school grounds and creating a beautiful Food Forest with fruit bearing trees and bushes, with herb spirals and pollinator area for our endangered bees. Benches and a shaded Pergola classroom area for...