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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 $106,500 for financial literacy courses for youth and
Aboriginal learners ($15,000 in 2006 and $91,500 in 2007).
- 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.
- 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
$123,750 ($8,000 in each of 2002 and 2003, $10,000 in 2004, $19,000 in
2005, $35,750 in 2006, and $43,000 in 2007) to present bootcamps
and panel sessions in connection with the Banff Venture Forum.
- 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 $98,000 ($20,000 in 2001, $12,000 in each of 2002-2006,
and $18,000 in 2007/08) to develop and deliver an online trading
challenge for junior high school students.
- 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.
- Mount Royal College, Calgary,
Alberta
$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.
- VenturePrize, Edmonton,
Alberta
Up to $40,000 ($20,000 in 2005, $5,000 in each of 2003 and 2004,
and $10,000 in 2007) towards the VenturePrize business plan
competition.
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