Past Summer Stipend Projects

Past Summer Stipends

Some other examples of past summer stipends include:

Publishing School Schmool, an activist’s guide to McGill
Setting up an internship program and writing a training manual for the students to get involved in community economic development
Organizing and running WAVES (Women Active Vocal Effective Strong), a summer day program for teenage girls
Writing a manual for high school teachers on incorporating queer issues into the curriculum
Producing a documentary film on the fight against the Live-In Caregiver Program (LCP) that now acts as an educational tool for community and labor organizers
Organizing a bilingual walking tour of Montreal’s southwest neighborhood that aimed to draw out the history of struggle in this neighborhood and highlight present day battles against gentrification

1999:

1) Colour Bar: Ethnic and Racial Minority Students in the Law School Application Process,” a study of the factors that dissuade ethnic and racial minority students from applying to McGill School of Law (or from accepting admission), and a list of recommendations to the School of Law to address these barriers.

2) “WAVE (young Women Active, Vocal, Effective),” a feminist summer day camp organized and run by members of working group girlSpace. Again in 1999, WAVE was funded in part by a summer grant from Human Resources and Development Canada to run its fifth annual edition. Fourteen girls from many different backgrounds participated in the camp. The workshops were varied, and covered topics such as women and work, body image, relationships and racism.

3) “Red Alert,” the translation and publication of informational booklets on women’s menstrual health and the environment. This was funded in part by a Young Canada Works grant.

4) “ArTerre,” funding for an assistant to the coordinator with needs assessment for the alternative community centre and locating funding sources. This was also funded in part by a Young Canada Works grant,

2000:

1) WAVES leadership camp for girls.

2) Pucks for Peace coordinator.

2001:

1) Kapwani will work with underprivileged kids on issues such as globalization and food systems

2) Waves (Women Action Vocal, Effective Strong) is a summer camp for girls aged 12-17.

3) Pauline and Sara will be working with community organizations to discover how globalization is affecting these communities

2002:

1) Carolyn and Alryea – work on a McGill anti-discrimination policy

2) Angela – lobbying the women’s studies department for a new course on race and gender in the Canadian context.

2004:

1) An intensive 6-week media-training program called “Speak for Ourselves” was organized in order to bring people of colour, indigenous, immigrant and refugees (prioritizing women and youth) into the field of media campaigning and radio production. This program was intended to address discrimination and make a contribution towards the achievement of justice and equality for those who have been underrepresented in media.

2) The second stipend funded a project that shared resources, experiences and skills to support local migrant and refugee groups in effectively confronting Fortress North America. This project created a resource booklet and organized both a series of skill-sharing workshops and a series of monthly presentations and seminars, all of which sought to enable effective participation in current migrant and refugee defense campaign

2005:

1) Self Advocacy Groups for Adults labeled with intellectual Disabilities

2) School Schmool

2006:

1) School Schmool

2) Alternative Health and Palliative Care

2007:

1) Bike Shop – a collectiveorganizing a bike shop along the lines of Right to Move/Voie Libre. They have a space on Van Horne in the back of a mechanic shop. They also have a rockin’ gender policy where they are trying to ensure gender parity in the space.

2) Middle East 101 Workshop Series – a workshop series that will tour as many of the 19 CEGEPS and the 4 universities as possible.

3) School Schmool

2008:

1) Indigenous Solidarity and Popular Education Coordinator: Martin Lukacs

2) SFUPIRG ARX Database: advertises community groups’ projects and research needs and students can respond to complete them.

3) “A Need for Solidarity: The State of Student Activist Organizations on University Campuses in Canada” Megan Howatt.

2009:

1) Missing Justice: Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The goal was to sustain a long term Montreal campaign (with a Quebec-wide focus) that raises awareness about the conditions, which lead to Indigenous women being targets of violence, and applies political pressure to eliminate those conditions. The campaign will also dispel harmful stereotypes about Indigenous women who are targeted, and validate the experiences of victims’ families.

2) “The politics of knowledge“. Reconsidering the laissez‐innover paradigm in regulations governing the conduct of research at McGill University.” Research project by Nikki Bozinoff