Taking SickKids Mobile

Taking SickKids Mobile is an initiative of the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) that explores the use of mobile technologies for enhancing patient care. It includes six sub-projects, three of which relate to improving current patient care processes and three focus on making existing services more effective and easier to use. The reach of these […]

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Développement d’un cadre de référence pour les données en culture

Culturepédia est une fiducie d’utilité sociale dont la mission est de mettre en lumière les effets et les impacts sociaux des arts et de la culture en favorisant le partage et la mutualisation de données culturelles. Cette démarche collective permettra à l’ensemble des partenaires du milieu culturel de contribuer au développement de savoirs. Le centre […]

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Fireweed Food Co-op Marketing

Fireweed Food Co-op (FFC) is a non-profit multi-stakeholder co-operative based in Winnipeg, Manitoba that facilitates the connection between food producers and customers as a distributor. A continual challenge for growth in the co-op is to acquire more funding from government and organizational grants. Communicaiton and messaging are key components in acquiring that funding, however, demonstrating […]

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Community Capitals and Asset Mapping for the City of Lethbridge

Municipalities of all sizes are increasingly being asked to take on a greater role in terms of citizen-based lives, and extending their policy and planning purview into domains such as community sustainability and resilience, community economic development, functional regional development, and addressing the diversity of needs and expectations coming from both new-comers to Canada, and […]

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The Collaborative Production of “The Hospital of Unhappy Surprises”

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a rare genetic condition that leads to brittle bones and mild to severe bone deformities. People with OI often experience pain, discrimination, fear of breaking bones, and frequent hospitalizations. Because the condition is rare, the experiences of children with OI are not well understood by healthcare providers, who often lack guidelines […]

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Approaches to supporting people experiencing complex and overlapping vulnerabilities in Downtown East Toronto

The meaningful issues that are deeply-rooted in the Downtown East Toronto include poverty, homelessness, housing, community safety, mental health, substance use and the drug poisoning crisis. Challenges accessing formal systems for support and resources results from experiences with overlapping systems of exclusion and intersecting points of oppressions like stigma, racism or gender. The main question […]

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Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology for Digital Storage and Preservation Systems: A Prototype Runway for 221A

Vancouver non-profit 221A is interested in using decentralized ledger technology (DLT) to offer secure, reliable, context preserving, cost-efficient, and carbon-neutral permanent storage services for digital cultural work. This research project will identify a storage solution for 221A that will preserve digital assets in the long term. Final outputs include a whitepaper and presentation deck featuring […]

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Books BC Book Subscription Box Strategic Plan

Book subscription box strategic plan for BC publishers. Developing a comprehensive strategy for Books BC (The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia) to launch a book subscription box for their members. This plan will include: Surveying key stakeholders; Conducting a competitive landscape analysis of other book subscription boxes or like-minded programs; Developing a curation […]

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Supply Chain Efficiency Enhancement through Digital Contract Management

??Judge and Associates currently face challenges in managing contracts efficiently within their real estate operations. The manual process of contract management using paper documents and spreadsheets is labor-intensive and prone to errors. There is a need for automation to streamline the contract lifecycle from creation to renewal while ensuring compliance and accuracy. This project aims […]

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The Functional Impairment Rating Scale (FIRS): A novel performance-based measure of ADLs

This research project centers on developing the Functional Impairment Rating Scale (FIRS), a new tool to better assess how people with neurological and mental health disorders can complete everyday tasks. Traditional assessment methods often rely on patients’ descriptions of their abilities or clinicians observations, which can miss important details. The FIRS aims to address this […]

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