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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
- OMG I have ADHD
- OneTime
- Public Health Speaks
- ReRooting Relationships
- Singing Our Truths: Telling Our Stories
- Voices 4 Reconciliation
- Young Minds Exploring Science
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- News & stories
- 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.
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Projects and competitions 2019
2019 FINALISTS – BURNABY
BURNABY ENGAGEMENT GRAND AWARD WINNER
Empowering the Village to Connect with the Child
A project to connect parents and kids aged 1–5 who belong to a family of newcomers (e.g. SFU students with families and/or refugees). Read more
Team members: Daniel Minoru Higa Reyes (SFU), Giuliana Lira Guzman (SFU), Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP).
BURNABY ENGAGEMENT AWARD WINNER
Bridge2Health
This is a workshop that focuses on the gaps that immigrant youth aged 15–24 experience when accessing sexual health education and services in the Greater Vancouver region. Read more
Team members: Amanda Monteiro (SFU), Bethel Lulie (SFU), Cassandra Parsons (SFU), James Young (SFU), Viseth Long (SFU)
BURNABY ENGAGEMENT AWARD WINNER
Connecting Little Ones at Home to Indigenous Culture
A project to connect the little ones at home (from 0 to 5 years) to First Nations culture. Read more
Team members: Daniel Minoru Higa Reyes (SFU), Giuliana Lira Guzman (SFU), Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP).
2019 FINALISTS – SURREY
SURREY CITY CENTRE GRAND AWARD & BURNABY FESTIVAL OF LEARNING AWARD WINNER
Making HER Future!
“Making HER Future!” is a project to support young girls (middle school-aged) in tech. Read more
Team members: Maryam Zarei (SFU), Naghmi Shireen (SFU), Niloofar Kazemi (SFU), Ahmed Abu Zuraiq (SFU), Talia Ahmad (UBC)
SURREY CITY CENTRE AWARD WINNER
Camp We Empower
A program to help kids in Grades 3–12 learn essential skills to become community leaders and to develop strong sets of skills for coming into adulthood, building a sustainable future and caring about the community. Read more
Team members: Rochelle Prasad (SFU), Niloufer Gill (SFU), Roha Malik (SFU)
SURREY ENGAGEMENT AWARD WINNER
Bridge2Health
This is a workshop that focuses on the gaps that immigrant youth aged 15–24 experience when accessing sexual health education and services in the Greater Vancouver region. Read more
Team members: Amanda Monteiro (SFU), Bethel Lulie (SFU), Cassandra Parsons (SFU), James Young (SFU), Viseth Long (SFU)
SURREY ENGAGEMENT AWARD WINNER
CommuniCreate
CommuniCreate is a program to help newcomer youth improve their English communication ability in order to promote success in their everyday lives as well as in their academic performance. The team wants to teach youth practical life skills through hands-on activities and roleplaying and create a safe and enjoyable experience for newcomer youth to promote engagement, creativity, confidence and connection. Read more
Team members: Saba Fatemi (SFU), Trisha Dulku (SFU Alumni), Rufaida Pervez (SFU), Eunbee Baik (SFU), Ricky Lalli (SFU Alumni)
2019 FINALISTS – GENERAL
STUDENT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRAND AWARD WINNER
The Oral History Crew
A project to create an exhibit highlighting the contributions of lesbians in the women’s movements in the 1970s and 80s as a means to mark both the fiftieth anniversary of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1970) and the fiftieth anniversary of the partial dis-crimination of same-sex acts (1969). Read more
Team members: Kirstie Goodfellow (SFU), Holly French (SFU)
STUDENT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRAND AWARD WINNER
Stick With Me (Ecuador)
This project invites women who were born in rural parts of Ecuador and migrated to Quito, the country’s capital city, to participate in workshops to create collective collages depicting different aspects of their lived experiences, with emphasis on their migration histories, health and wellbeing. Read more →
Team member: Belen Febres-Cordero, PhD Candidate in the School of Communication at SFU
STUDENT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD WINNER
True Colours
True Colours, a sticker project, aims to provide a new creative platform for young children in health institutions to freely express themselves and share their journey by designing their own stickers. Read more
Team members: Shemaiah Chiu (SFU), Angelica Valdez (SFU) and Vivian Wong (SFU)
STUDENT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AWARD WINNER
Bridges in Strathcona
A project to implement the KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE), an experiential teaching tool based on participatory education methodologies and employing Indigenous practices to build awareness and understanding of the shared histories of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Read more