Capacity-Building and Emerging Issues funding allocations

Developing a Cultural Safety Response Framework for Indigenous Survivors of Human Trafficking: Contracting an Indigenous consulting agency to audit ACT's services and develop a strategy for improved cultural safety and community engagement.

Women Engagement and Empowerment Project (WEE): Mobilizing a collaborative comprising ethnocultural community groups, service providers and public institutions to work towards addressing economic inclusion among racialized communities.

Equity Audit: Policy Review, Organizational Gap Analysis and Recommendations: Identifying and developing strategies to remove systemic barriers within the organization that are preventing equitable services and opportunities for everyone involved in the organization.

Collaborative Funders Table for Youth: Bringing together multiple community funders with the aim to improve employment outcomes for opportunity youth in Calgary.

Nurturing Diversity and Empowering Abilities website redevelopment: Designing and developing a comprehensive, inclusive, and accessible website which will provide a space where the community can learn about disabilities, and the supports, resources, and opportunities available.

2024 Connections Conference: Bringing together professionals, leaders, and changemakers from Alberta’s nonprofit, business, and government sectors for learning and dialogue to turn ideas into actions.

Downtown Property Opportunity Assessment: Assessing the best use of the DI’s adjacent property to their main downtown shelter with the goal of more effectively serving the needs of Calgarians at risk of homelessness.

Indigenous Cultural Education & Reconciliation: Enhancing organizational knowledge and awareness to responsibly and respectfully support Indigenous people and actively work on decolonization and reconciliation as an organization.

Creating a Strategic Foundation to Serve Calgarians Long-Term by Building Internal DEI Capacity: Undertaking an action plan to address inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in order to build internal capacity for embedding these values within the organization.

Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders - A Digital Literacy Initiative: Bridging the digital divide for Calgary's newcomer youth by imparting essential technology skills.

Calgary Community Development Learning Initiative: Building the capacity of Calgary's community development sector by providing training and learning opportunities for both residents and sector workers.

Capturing Excellence through Evaluation: Updating the organization's theory of change, providing a simple, clear roadmap for the organization, its evaluation framework, and data management system.

Leveraging workforce management solutions for better people management: Implementing a Human Resources Integrated System (HRIS) to streamline and automate processes and better serve the needs of employees.

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace for Older Adults: Collaborating with multiple seniors centres to educate staff on diversity and inclusion to offer more services in a professional and equitable way.

Enhancing Organizational Effectiveness through Developmental Evaluation: Developing an evaluation framework and organizational theory of change using a developmental evaluation approach.

Digital Access to Domestic Violence Safety Planning: Developing, and making available, digital resources for domestic violence safety planning. 

Enhancing Community Engagement with Supportive Technology: Developing accessible technology support to enhance community engagement initiatives and strengthen program delivery.

Technical Infrastructure: Upgrading technological infrastructure through a data analyzation platform and to enhanced membership management.

Measuring Collective Impact: Designing a Program Evaluation Framework & Tool: Optimizing capacity to capture collective impact and to integrate ongoing and detailed feedback from a diverse contingent of food-insecure families across Calgary to better meet the needs of populations served.

The IT Cyber Aware Project: Building a cyber aware organization and will ensure effective service delivery and safe handling of vulnerable client data.

TechMentor - Advancing Community Growth through Technology-Enhanced Mentorship: Integrating technology into programs to streamline service delivery and communications. 

Upgrading of the existing educational program: Transforming the in-person teaching curriculum for children/youth, into a state-of-the-art online learning portal with the integration of a virtual component.

Leftovers Calgary Food Safety Process Update: Development of appropriate food redirection safety procedures for volunteers.

Data & Evaluation Framework: Creating a robust framework that tracks the effectiveness of art therapy programs. 

Project Management Capacity - for Momentum and the Sector: Creating a cross-organization project management framework and implementation of workflow management tools and processes. 

Workplace Wellness Project: Enhancing staff well-being and resilience to improve staff mental, physical, and emotional health.

NSTEP Learning Management System: Development of a web-based, interactive model, allowing educators, after-school programmers, to bring health promotion content and education into their community settings. 

Streamlining Success: A Technology Solution for Effortless Program Intake: Developing an automated intake process for individuals interested in accessing employment services.

Operationalizing Transformative Change: Addressing addiction challenges in Calgary and fostering policy-level responses.

Boosting Incomes: Advancing Taxation and Benefits services in Calgary: Strengthening the capacity and growing the impact of the Taxes and Benefits Community of Practice.  

Data & Evaluation of Domestic Violence In the African Community: Conducting an evaluation of programs and services to help understand the current state of service delivery to African women and their families.

Creating an Organizational Culture of Belonging: Advancing a culture of belonging and organizational effectiveness with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion within organizational structures, processes and systems. 

Bread: Food System Navigator: Creating easy-to-use tools for real-time food information and establishing a sustainable adoption system.

YYC Food Collaborative: Building sector coordination and problem solving, increasing the  YYC Food Collaborative's profile, and increasing community awareness of food insecurity in Calgary. 

Leadership Development Program for Non-Profit Organizations: Equiping non-profit leaders with practical knowledge and insights to successfully lead their organizations to fulfill their vision and mission.

USAY Document Overhaul: Leveraging cutting-edge technologies for effective communication and operational efficiency.

Integrated member tracking and event management system: Development of an automated system for tracking & recording information to enable senior-aged members to easily register and pay for programs, classes, and events.

Empowering Community Connectors: Empower community brokers and develop foundational knowledge on aspects of social justice, antiracism, human rights, and gender equity.

Diversifying Teams and Strengthening Systems: Develop diversity, equity and inclusion policies for specific needs of people experiencing homelessness, substance use, and poverty.

Collaborative Health Records Transition Project: Implement a new, custom-designed records platform to improve responses and provide high quality care.

Non-discrimination, Anti-violence and Anti-harassment Policies: Facilitate the creation of a safe and non-discriminatory work environment, services, and practices.

Program Innovation Planning: Build a coherent and workable plan for program innovation to respond to increased demand.

Capacity-Building for Senior Centres: Provide governance training for board members and senior staff at City-funded senior centres.

Pulses, Patterns and the Path Forward: Enhance processes that will support the social participation and wellbeing of immigrant and refugee women.

Strengthening Community Support: Develop board and volunteer capacity to respond to the critical need for growth and support the empowerment of women in the community.

Flexibility and Choice: Increase access to programs and quality of experience for clients and volunteers.

Co-design of Eating Disorder Services: Create collaborative relationships with other organizations that provide care and services to diverse youth populations.

People Strategy: Develop human resource strategies through an equity seeking lens.

Data Collection and Utilization Enhancement: Increase the collection of accurate and complete data to reduce barriers for client participation and inform program evaluation.

Enhancing Client Programming: Establish more efficient record keeping so that every family who receives services can do so with minimal barriers.

Moving into Real Time: Develop electronic record keeping and database that encompasses Indigenous traditional beliefs.

Mental Health Information Sharing Framework: Enhance the collaboration among organizations that provide mental health and well-being supports to vulnerable populations.

Data and Evaluation Framework: Develop new frameworks to improve data quality, availability, and decision making.

Organizational Optimization Strategies: Create a holistic management system that will integrate programs to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and overall performance.

Sustainable Volunteer Management Strategy: Develop a volunteer management strategy that supports sustainable growth and strengthens services to vulnerable seniors.

Building Capacity for Remote Testimony: Increase access to remote testimony options for vulnerable adult victims of domestic violence.

Apricot 360: Modernize systems and infrastructure to build capacity to better serve children, families, and the broader community.

TIES FutureForward: Strengthen and modernize IT infrastructure to support efficient daily operations and a secure, sustainable online service delivery model.

Harnessing Newcomer Data: Design, develop, and implement the architecture for a database framework for newcomer sector trend identification and research purposes.

Indigenous Mentoring Model Enhancement: Improve outcomes for Indigenous post-secondary students by enhancing existing mentoring program to adopt community-informed practices.

Evaluation Framework to Better Serve Families: Strengthen the ability to measure the social impact of services to better serve families experiencing housing instability.

Enhancing Outcome Monitoring and Data Management: Develop a unified, shared data management system enabling all partners to collaborate and track outcomes.

DEI Capacity-Building and Implementation: Undertake a transformational process to deeply understand and incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusions practices.

Outreach and Engagement Project: Engage with the community to enhance services and programs, identify system-wide service gaps, and strengthen collaborative planning efforts.

Training for Refugee Volunteers: Develop a training program for volunteers from the refugee community to empower them to take a leadership role and support their peers.

Strengthening Governance: Strengthen board effectiveness and organizational oversight through a governance review, board policy development and risk management practices.

Developing a Post-COVID Community Building Model: Evaluate and improve the existing community building strategy through an empowering participatory evaluation process.  

DEI Review: Review and revise processes, policies, and operations through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens.  

Insurance Equity Roundtable: To improve the social and financial resilience of Calgarians by addressing barriers to personal insurance coverage and building community resilience to mitigate the impacts of emergencies and disruptive events.

Calgary's Autism Community: To support Calgary’s Autism community in adapting to the new post-pandemic social reality.

The Good Food Box: To review and adapt the Good Food Box program to ensure Calgarians have equitable access to nutritious food.

Trans Affirming Network Development: To advance inclusive policies and practices by working with community leaders for transgender and gender diverse individuals.

Brokers for Equity and Empowerment (BEE) Project: To strengthen the governance and resource development capacity centered on the implementation of its Broker Strategy

Alumni Engagement Strategy: To build an Alumni Engagement Strategy that will identify and implement ways to effectively maintain and grow relationships with program alumni in Calgary.

Post Pandemic Recovery Coordination: To support and assist vulnerable seniors to reengage with society and begin the healing benefits of regular activity.

Simulation Modeling to Increase Capacity: To predict future needs and demand for resources to meet the increasing needs of youth experiencing vulnerabilities

Meaning Behind the Numbers: To increase technological capacity to efficiently compile, retrieve and interpret data to improve services for immigrant women and their families

Human Resources Strategy Development: To develop and implement of a sustainable HR framework.

Sahwoo mohkaak tsi ma taas - An Indigenous led Review: To create a collaborative, culturally respectful evaluation project to build understanding of the impact of Sahwoo mohkaak tsi ma taas.

Evaluation of SeniorConnect: To engage in a research-based evaluation of SeniorConnect to help understand the current state of service delivery to seniors.

YMCA Community Branch Enhacement: To re-envision programming to stabilize current operations and more effectively respond to the emerging needs of Calgarians

HR Growth Strategy and Resources: To develop an HR Growth Strategy to maintain an exceptional, effective and efficient team of employees as the organization grows.

Strategic Marketing and Communications Plan: To develop a Marketing and Communications strategy to reflect new  priorities and to communicate new virtual ways of work and to reach a greater audience.

Strategic Planning: To develop a new strategic plan that will consider a post-pandemic future that incorporates emerging practices in social services, leverages technology, and nurtures a diverse and resilient workforce.

Strengthening IT Security and Implementation to Better Serve Calgarians: To undertake a comprehensive IT assessment and develop and implement a strategy to address identified gaps and risks with the goals of improving security, reliability and efficiency.

Linking Performance Management to Program Effectiveness: To develop and implement a comprehensive performance management system. 

Yes! We CANS: To implement the use of the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment tool to assess presenting issues, prioritize service planning, gauge progress and measure outcomes.

Development of CUPS' Next Strategic Plan: To develop a strategic plan that will reflect the values and voices of CUPS' clients, community, and staff.

Planning for the Future - Strategic Plan Development: To strengthen strategic planning to ensure long-term organizational efficiency and sustainability with a focus on evidence-based and innovative programs and services.

Improving our Human Resources Response to COVID Recovery: To develop better policies, processes and strategies to address the areas of HR in response tp pandemic recovery and improved workplace wellness.

Planning for the Future: To strengthen organizational effectiveness through Strategic and Succession planning to increase program impacts and to effectively address the needs of Calgarians experiencing vulnerabilities.

Launch SafeLink Alberta: To align the name and visual brand of the organization to the broader work and its programs and services.

Indigenous Strategy Development: To share knowledge, identify issues, present ideas for change and to establish a formal strategy to support the systematic, structural decolonization and indigenization of Hull Services.

Immigrant Services Calgary Website Improvements: To create a new content management system and website to make it easier for newcomers to find the information they are looking for and connect with the services they need.

Strategic Plan: To develop a strategic plan that builds on the past success of the organization and ensures relevancy and impact as an Indigenous organization within Calgary.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Organizational Audit: To undertake a transformational process to deeply understand and incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into programs, practices, and organizational culture.

Update of Bylaws, Policies and Procedures: To update bylaws, policies, and procedures to ensure greater alignment to best practices and service delivery to seniors.

Leadership Effectiveness Through Better Governance: To update the governance processes and resources to enhance decision making, accountability frameworks and reporting structures.

Sagesse Agency Stats and Dashboard: Develop a strategic plan by prioritizing efforts, effectively allocating resources, aligning stakeholders and employees on the organization’s goals.

Evaluation Framework Implementation project: To implement an evaluation framework to effectively define organizational outcomes and report to the community.

Human Resources & Policies and Procedures: To establish occupational health and safety and psychological safety committees to create policies and procedures manuals that will enhance the health and safety protocols.

Improving USAY's Reach: To increase the capacity of the organization in the area of storytelling and video production to enhance program outcomes.

Strategic Planning: To revise the organization's strategic and business plans to reflect changes in service delivery to seniors.

Building Women's Centre Anti Racist Organizational Capacity: To build internal organizational capacity to be an inclusive place for Racialized women to work and volunteer.

Improving Mental Health Services for Racialized Youth: To improve access to anti-racist and appropriate mental health approaches for Racialized youth and their families impacted by anxiety and anxiety-related issues and disorders.

Rise and Shine (RS): Preparing Immigrant Elders to address Social Isolation and Vulnerability: To develop the culture of volunteerism among elders from issue identification to devising strategies that increase social inlcusion.

Strategic Plan Development: To develop a strategic plan will align team members with partners at all levels in a common framework to improve street outreach services.

Increasing Organizational Effectiveness through Sustainable Volunteer Management: To implement an effective volunteer management program that increases digital and virtual capacity to better mobilize its volunteers.

CPSG Strategy and Technology Development: To develop a strategic plan and build the organization's technological capacity to improve client access to services and programs. 

Circle Society Board Development: To strengthen the skill development of the Circle of Wisdom Elders Senior Society and its board members in creating a solid foundation to meet the special needs of the Urban Indigenous Elders & Seniors living in Calgary.

Organizational Sustainability Plan: To provide the board and staff with a strategy and actions that will guide  operations future operations.

Enhanced Volunteer Management Strategies: To develop enhanced volunteer management strategies to streamline volunteer management process and increase  organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

Ethiocare Capacity-Building Project 2022: To improve the organizations ability to effectively and efficiently collect, utilize and report data on program participants, volunteers, services and outcomes.

Organizational Assessment and sustainability plan - F.O.C.U.S on Seniors (F.O.C.U.S): To improve operational, programmatic, and organizational maturity through stratgeic planning.

Building the capacity of the organization and community partners: To build leadership capacity to of the organization, grass roots partner organizations and community  natural supports to respond to emerging issues. etc.)  to help the vulnerable community residents facing issues and challenges.

CC4AR continuation: To build staff capacity for facilitation and update resources for Cultural Capital for Anti-Racism that are accessable and shared with the community.

Volunteer Management System: To design a volunteer management system that builds resident capacity and leadership.

African Cancer Support Capacity Improvements Project: To develop a Strategic plan and guiding documents to improve organizationsl effectivenss.