47 community partners receive funding from UBC’s 2022 Partnership Recognition and Exploration fund 

The Office of Community Engagement awards over $70,000 to support community-university collaboration and relationship building. 

The Partnership Recognition & Exploration (PRE) fund empowers community partners to build reciprocal relationships with UBC students, faculty, and staff. Since 2017, the fund has invested more than $450,000 in 289 community-university partnerships, with approximately 50% of funding going to IBPOC-led community organizations.  

Receiving up to $1,500 each, this year’s projects are exceptional examples of how communities and UBC are working together to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion; Indigenous engagement and reconciliation; health innovation and community wellbeing; sustainability and climate action; and teaching, learning, and research excellence.  

Join us in celebrating the recipients of the 2022 PRE fund! Learn more about these inspiring partnerships between communities and the university below.

Quick Facts

  • $70,237 awarded to 47 projects
  • 17% (8) Indigenous community partners funded
  • 16 faculties represented across Vancouver and Okanagan campuses
  • 25% (12) projects with student co-applicants

The 2022 Projects

African Ancestry Project: Knowledge Translation through Video Production 

Arts and Cultural Research Infrastructure Partnership 

Building Community in Times of Changes and Crisis through Open Dialogues and Public Scholarship 

Building Resilience, Courage, and Strength Amongst Youth in the Post-covid World 

CANOVI Public Engagement 

Celebrating Sher Vancouver: A Community Recognition Event 

Chinese Canadian Engagement: Celebrating and Honouring the Past and Thriving Forward Together 

Community Kitchen Partnership for Wellness and Food Security 

Community-Based Mentoring and Tutoring Initiative for Newcomer Learners with Interrupted Schooling 

Creating a Medication Education Tool to Support Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Pharmacy Student Learners 

Digital & Political Contours of Chinese-Canadian Communities 

  • Community Partner: Kellie Carroll, Network of Inner-City Community Services 
  • UBC Partner | Student: Caitlin Chong, Sociology, Arts, UBV Vancouver 

Early Childhood Nutrition Resources for Parents with Precarious Immigration Status 

Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing: Ways of Being and Seeing 

Extending the Collaboration of Brain Injury Community Associations and Researchers 

Finding Forgiveness: A Panel Event at the Museum of Vancouver 

Food Security and Climate Action in LMRP 

Freedom Farm 

Harm Reduction Workers Guild: Community-led Support And Training For Harm Reduction Workers 

Healing Together: Building Relationships to Decolonize Nursing Education 

Historical Wildfire Regime and Contemporary Wildfire Risk in Stswecem’c Xget’tem Territory 

History of Maple Ridge Interactive Trail 

Intersectionality and Community Organizing 

Joint UBCO/KSS Engineering Outreach Educational Partnership 

Language In Practice: Translator Kids 

  • Community Partner: Christina Lee, Hua Foundation
  • UBC Partner | Staff: Szu Shen, Arts, UBC Vancouver 

Liberated Planet Studio at the Dance Centre 

  • Community Partner: Linda Blankstein, The Dance Centre
  • UBC Partner | Faculty: Ayasha Guerin, Arts, UBC Vancouver 

Light Up the Holidays 

Mentorship Program to Access the Provincial Tuition Waiver for Former Youth in Care 

Métis Business Management Program 

Minding the Gap: Co-creating a Province-wide Virtual Support Group for British Columbians Facing Hereditary Cancer Risk 

Mobilizing Wet’suwet’en Wellness 

Multicultural Women’s Support Group 

Operating Equitable and Impactful Harm Reduction Services 

Pharmacy Assessment Tool for Hepatitis C (PATH): Linking Patients to Care at Community Pharmacies 

Planning Roundtable to Co-write a Proposal for Regional Nlaka’pamux Collaboration on Post-disaster Spiritual and Mental Health Resource Development 

Pride in Place: Historical Representation of 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities in the Okanagan 

Pride Night 

PROmoting Early Childhood Outside (PRO-ECO) Partner Collaboration 

Punjabi Market Storytelling Project 

Relationship Building to Address Oral Health 

Research Priorities and Needs in Canadian Arboriculture and Urban Forestry 

Research Seminar on Life-extension Technologies

Saige Community Food Bank Volunteer Appreciation Event 

Science World/Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology (WWEST) STEM Support Program Exploration 

Self-care as Community Care: Mentorship Program 

Strength Training in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Educational Videos from the Lived Experience Perspective 

What’s the Deal with the Water? Assessing Water Quality within Lost Lagoon 

YWCA Single Mothers’ Support Group UBC 

Want to learn more about any of the 2022 PRE fund projects?

Contact our Fund Manager Shayla Walker (shayla.walker@ubc.ca).