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Recent Grants
- ASSIST
Community Services Centre, Edmonton,
Alberta
Up to $5,000 for an open house and seminars on investment fraud,
focussing on the Asian community in the greater Edmonton area.
- Calgary
Chinese Cultural Society, Calgary,
Alberta
$14,766 towards the development of an investor education online video
program, in Mandarin, Cantonese and English, for Chinese immigrants
to Canada (funded together with the British Columbia Securities
Commission ($59,064) and the Investor Education Fund ($73,830)).
- Calgary
Council for Advanced Technology, Calgary,
Alberta
Up to $5,470 ($4,720 in 2002 and $750 in 2005) for seminars for
technology companies and entrepreneurs.
- Calgary
Seniors' Resource Society, Calgary,
Alberta
Up to $21,000 ($6,000 in 2003 and $15,000 in 2005) for ABC’s
of Fraud presentations.
- Canadian Listed Company Association,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Up to $25,000 for various projects
to educate members of the Canadian Listed Company Association.
- Canadian
Society of Technical Analysis - Calgary Chapter,
Calgary, Alberta
Up to $8,000 ($5,000 in 2001 and $3,000 in 2002) to advertise conferences
on technical analysis in Calgary and Edmonton.
- CARP
Canada's Association for the Fifty Plus, Calgary Chapter,
Calgary, Alberta
Up to $2,100 ($900 in 2002 and $600 in each of 2003 and 2006) to
present an investment and investment fraud seminar for seniors.
- Edmonton
Capital Region Innovation Centre, Edmonton,
Alberta
Up to $15,000 ($5,000 in each of 2001-2003) for a seminar on financing
high tech companies at their Technology for Success Conference.
- Edmonton
Financial Literacy Society,
Edmonton, Alberta
Up to $124,000 for financial literacy courses for youth and Aboriginal learners ($15,000 in 2006, $91,500 in 2007 and $17,500 in 2008).
- Edmonton Public Library,
Edmonton, Alberta
Up to $11,800 to continue operations of the Investor Education
Centre in the main branch of the Edmonton Public Library.
- Financial Plus Collaborative,
Edmonton, Alberta
Up to $5,000 in 2009 towards a financial literacy conference.
- Haskayne School of Business,
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Up to $42,500 for a directors’ education for small business
program.
- Heads Up Fraud Prevention Association,
Edmonton, Alberta
Up to $76,000 ($15,000 in 1999 to develop brochures and conduct
seminars for seniors on investment fraud; $45,000 in 2000-03
(and $10,000 in 2005) for strategic development of a program
of education for seniors about investment fraud; and $6,000
in 2005 for web site redevelopment).
- InfoTech
Alberta (formerly ICET Alliance), Calgary, Alberta
Up to $151,250 ($8,000 in each of 2002 and 2003, $10,000 in 2004, $19,000 in 2005, $35,750 in 2006, $43,000 in 2007 and $27,500 in 2008) to present bootcamps and panel sessions in connection with the Banff Venture Forum.
Up to $25,000 in 2009 towards a training manual for entrepreneurs.
- Investor
Learning Centre of Canada,
Calgary, Alberta
Up to $222,000 ($20,000 in 1999 for the development of seminars
in connection with Investor Education Week, $97,000 in 1999
for the distribution of investment books to Alberta libraries
and the provision of toll-free access to the ILC's Calgary Resource
Centre, $90,000 in 2000 as startup funding for the establishment
of an Investor Education Centre in Edmonton and $15,000 in 2001
towards expenses related to the Investor Resource Centre in
Calgary).
- Junior Achievement of Southern
Alberta, Calgary, Alberta
Up to $122,000 ($20,000 in 2001, $12,000 in each of 2002-2006, $18,000 in 2007/08 and $12,000 in each of 2008 and 2009) to develop and deliver an online trading challenge for junior high school students.
Up to $72,000 towards the expansion of Junior Achievement programs in rural Alberta.
- Kerby Centre, Calgary,
Alberta
Up to $5,000 for material for an investor education resource
collection.
- Moe Money Ventures, Lethbridge,
Alberta
Up to $8,655 ($3,500 in 2000 and $5,155 in 2001) to develop and
present investment camps for young people.
- Momentum Community Economic Development Society, Calgary,
Alberta
Up to $10,500 for the development of financial literacy materials for learners whose first language is not English and for students with learning disabilities.
Up to $15,000 for the development of learning materials for low-income entrepreneurs.
- Mount Royal College, Calgary,
Alberta
Up to $55,000 to develop a corporate governance certificate program.
- Peace
Country Development Corporation, Peace
River, Alberta
Up to $16,000 to help extend the Junior Achievement program to
sixteen schools in the Peace River region.
- Rocky Mountain Business Seminar,
Edmonton, Alberta
$25,000 ($5,000 in each of 2002 and 2004-2006, and $10,000 in 2003)
towards a Jasper, Alberta conference organized by business students
from the University of Alberta.
- Shad Valley International - Alberta Regional Office,
Calgary, Alberta
Up to $42,000 ($14,000 per year for three years) towards a summer science and entrepreneurship program for exceptional youth.
- Social Enterprise Fund,
Edmonton, Alberta
Up to $15,000 towards a presentation circuit and bootcamp for non-profits and social entrepreneurs to learn more about social enterprise.
- VenturePrize, Edmonton,
Alberta
Up to $45,000 ($20,000 in 2005, $5,000 in each of 2003 and 2004, $10,000 in 2007, and $5,000 in 2009) towards the VenturePrize business plan competition.
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