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ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS
Affordable Housing Solutions Lab
The Affordable Housing Solutions Lab (AHSL) empowers citizens to innovate, co-create and develop effective local affordable housing solutions. AHSL is part of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta.
Alberta Real Estate Foundation
The Alberta Real Estate Foundation was established in 1991 under the Real Estate Act to support and strengthen the real estate industry while benefiting Albertans. Through strategic investments, we fund initiatives that support real estate leadership, our built environment, and land and water. In 35 years, we’ve invested over $35 million in more than 900 projects across Alberta.
Alberta Rural Development Network
The Alberta Rural Development Network (ARDN) supports the sustainability of rural communities. ARDN works with communities to amplify the "rural voice". They collaborate to identify and bring focus to rural issues, build local capacity, and find innovative, rural-based solutions to unique issues.
Alberta Seniors & Community Housing Association
ASCHA is a non-profit member-driven association that acts as a centre of excellence for education, best practices, and member resources, to assist housing providers with providing the very best supports to the Albertans they serve..
Canadian Mental Health Association
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is a nationwide organization that promotes mental health and supports people recovering from mental illness. CMHA Edmonton is the leading community mental health organization in the region, delivering key services in the areas of mental health support, education and training, wayfinding, and collective action.
The City of Leduc
The City of Leduc is a fast-growing, dynamic city just minutes south of Edmonton. The City’s Family & Community Support Services (FCSS) helps people of all ages build wellbeing, stay connected, and find the right resources at the right time, including prevention-focused assistance that help residents understand financial options, access the right resources, and remain safely housed.
The Communitas Group
Communitas is a consulting and management firm offering expertise in project planning, development, management and research. Their specialties include cooperative housing, cooperative enterprises, cohousing, energy and resource efficient design and financing, and community and policy development.
Edmonton's Food Bank
The Edmonton Food Bank is an affiliate member of Food Banks Canada. They are committed to the mantra: Relieving hunger today. Preventing hunger tomorrow.
Edmonton People In Need Shelter Society
The Edmonton People in Need Shelter Society (EPINSS) is a community based, non-profit charitable organization whose mission is to improve the well-being and enhance the quality of life of those individuals in the community suffering from severe and persistent chronic mental illness.
Edmonton River Valley Conservation Coalition
ERVCC works collaboratively to engage in knowledge sharing, advocacy, and stewardship using systems thinking that acknowledges the inextricable links between the ecology, culture, history, and spirit of the North Saskatchewan River watershed.
Edmonton Social Planning Council
The Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan social research organization. Their focus is social research, particularly in the areas of low income and poverty. ESPC is a source of knowledge and expertise on social issues within our community. This includes undertaking research into the nature and magnitude of social issues in our community; public awareness and understanding of current social issues; being an independent voice in the community; encouraging public participation in the development of social policies, and the implementation of programs.
George Spady Society The George Spady Centre Society is recognized as a leader in the development and delivery of effective services for the care, treatment and support of individuals with substance-related disorders and dual diagnoses. People who come to us find dignity, hope and healing as they set a new path towards health and well-being
Homeward Trust
Homeward Trust is the system planner that coordinates responses to homelessness amongst all sector partners. They are the aggregator of public funds from all orders of government and leverage those resources to make accessing funding easier for frontline-serving agencies, and more coordinated in reporting on outcomes to funding partners.
Inner City Pastoral Ministry
The Inner City Pastoral Ministry (ICPM) is an inter-denominational Christian ‘ministry of presence’ for inner city people. Partners in ICPM are members of Lutheran, Anglican, Roman Catholic and United Church denominations.
John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights
Our Vision: A world that manifests a culture of peace and human rights.
Our Mission: We work to advance dignity, freedom, justice, and security through collaborative relationships and transformative education on peace and human rights.
Operation Friendship Seniors SocietyOperation Friendship Seniors Society (OFSS) is a non-profit society that provides community-based preventative social services to the seniors of Edmonton’s inner city. OFSS provides safe, affordable non-institutional housing options.
Strathcona County Housing
Rights Action Group
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Strathcona County Housing Rights Action Group
We are a collective of Strathcona County residents coming together in solidarity with those experiencing housing insecurity or in need of temporary shelter. We listen, learn, and work alongside individuals with lived experience, community partners, and service providers to raise awareness, share knowledge, and push for meaningful, community-driven ways forward that recognize housing as a fundamental human right.