2010 Funding

TOTAL 2010 PROGRAM & INITATIVE FUNDING

 

Category: Community Issues

Total Granted in this Category: $180,186
Program Name
Agency
Amount Funded

Association of Inside Theatre Projects

Inside Out Integrated Theatre

$ 25,000

Calgary SCOPE Society

Integrated Community Kitchen Program

$ 5,563

Immigrant Services Calgary

Citizenship Learning Project

$ 23,062

Canadian Mental Health Association

Peer Options Workshops

$22,190

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Society

Family-focused Sign Language Instruction

$15,771

Families Matter

Community-Based Family Education

$ 88,600

 

Category: Employment Enhancement

Total Granted in this Category: $225,549

Program Name
Agency
Amount Funded

Calgary Catholic Immigration Society

Computer Training for Employment

$45,917

Calgary Immigrant Education Society

Computer Combo Program

$46,477

Calgary John Howard Society

Learning Education Enhancement Program

$ 57,755

Calgary Workers Resource Centre

Employment Rights, Obligations & Benefits Education Program

$ 18,000

Momentum

ABC's of Small Business

$ 57,400

 

Category: English Language Learning

Total Granted in this Category: $286,076
Program Name
Agency
Amount Funded

Bow Valley College

Computer Enhanced ESL Literacy

$ 35,990

Bow Valley College ESL Volunteer Tutor Program $ 26,800

Bow Valley College

ESL Volunteer Tutor Training Program

$ 22,153

Calgary Chinese Community Association

Stepping Stones: Forward into the Community

$ 50,000

Calgary Immigrant Women's Association Pebbles in the Sand $ 56,133

YWCA

English for New Canadians

$ 95,000

 

Category: Adult Basic Literacy

Total Granted in this Category: $245,344

Program Name
Agency
Amount Funded
Bow Valley College Evening Adult Basic Literacy Classes, Academic Foundations $ 9,471

Bow Valley College

Building Reading and Writing Skills

$ 29,755

Bow Valley College

Lifeline to Literacy

$ 21,275

Bow Valley College

Speech-Assisted Reading and Writing

$ 24,760

Calgary John Howard Society

Learning Opportunities Program

$ 57,144

Calgary Public Library Digital Literacy in the Community $6,327

Further Education Society

Family Literacy Program

$ 58,695

Mount Royal University

Transitional Vocational Program - ABE

$ 37,917

Initative Grants    
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Total Granted in this category $93,128
Program Name
Agency
Amount Funded

Calgary John Howard Society

FASD Action Hall $ 9,996
Immigrant Services Calgary Citizenship Class Enhancement Project $ 10, 000

Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute

My History, Our Future: Building Self-Advocacy Capacity $ 10, 000
Calgary Learning Centre Helping with Homework $ 10, 000
Further Education Society of Alberta First Steps Towards Financial Literacy $ 10,000

The following special project was commissioned by Calgary Learns:

Literacy Alberta

Integrating Foundational Learning: Training & Mentoring

$ 43,132