Sustainable Life App Eco Ambassadors - Level Up

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET: Sustainable Life App is seeking a team of eco-ambassadors to help us build relationships with sustainability and recycling organizations across Canada and the USA in order to help our app generate sales from sustainable businesses. The organizations will offer referral codes with their members who will get to join our app for a special price/limited-time offer. LEVEL UP Roles available: 4 80 hours/student required KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET: This role will involve a lot of emailing, instagram DMing (from your personal account) and also picking up the phone and making calls to sustainability and recycling organizations and booking meetings between them and our app's founder M. You will also be required to help populate the app in your city town (add refill stores and vegan restaurants to it that do not yet appear on the app, etc.) IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES/RÔLES/RESPONSABILITÉS:* Please note appropriate projects can accommodate most students, regardless of field of study or experience. We may not be able to fill these roles exactly. Veuillez noter que les projets appropriés peuvent accueillir la plupart des étudiants, quel que soit leur domaine d'études ou leur expérience. Nous ne pourrons peut-être pas remplir ces rôles exactement. Students will need to be extroverts or ambiaverts who are not afraid of rejection and treat sales as learning opportunities where we are trying to fulfill a clients marketing and sales needs instead of as "selling a product". We can accommodate 4 students FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES/LIVRABLES DU PROJET: Do customer discoveries calls and book meetings with associations, businesses and brands in your assigned territory.

Web development, UX, UI, Content Creation, & Graphic design for Sustainability

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET: Re_Generation aims to re_imagine our schools, re_purpose our careers, and re_model our companies to be aligned with regenerative principles. We created Canada’s largest platform to empower youth in sustainability and social impact. It is crucial to ensure that our resources are made accessible to most of Canada's young people. This is why we want to have enough strategic outreach to share these resources to impact as many people as possible and empower the next generation of leaders to shape the future they want to be part of.

Business & Economics Education - curriculum change & student empowerment

Re_Generation aims to re_imagine our schools, re_purpose our careers, and re_model our companies to be aligned with regenerative principles. We created Canada’s largest platform to empower youth in sustainability and social impact. Our website has Canada's largest centralized resource for young people who want to start a career in sustainability & social impact. It includes a self-assessment guide, 60+ career path interviews with industry leaders, 10+ sectoral guides to understand the key trends and opportunities of various sectors & industries, and a job board page that includes the most extensive mapping of places to get an internship in social impact & sustainability. We also have very comprehensive toolkits to empower students by sharing best practices on how to organize student events on sustainability & how to drive curriculum change. So far, close to 10,000 unique website visitors have used our resources. We want to continue building and improving this resource center!

Policy research on sustainable finance, tax justice, and climate policy

Re_Generation aims to re_imagine our schools, re_purpose our careers, and re_model our companies to be aligned with regenerative principles. We created Canada’s largest platform to empower youth in sustainability and social impact. Our website has Canada's largest centralized resource for young people who want to start a career in sustainability & social impact. It includes a self-assessment guide, 60+ career path interviews with industry leaders, 10+ sectoral guides to understand the key trends and opportunities of various sectors & industries, and a job board page that includes the most extensive mapping of places to get an internship in social impact & sustainability. Policy research for youth organizations, who are under-represented in this space, will be a key lever towards advancing the ambition of Canada’s regulatory and investing landscape.

Capitalizing Indigenous Entrepreneurs

The main goal of this project is to research and develop new social finance instruments for Indigenous Entrepreneurs. This will involve talking with Indigenous entrepreneurs, capital providers, and ecosystem actors to understand their needs, challenges, and opportunities. The project also involves researching existing social finance instruments and traditional ones. These new instruments will complement, leverage, and/or improve, not compete with or replace, existing capital providers. These new instruments will also be culturally appropriate, not harm entrepreneurs, nor bind them into colonial ways of oppression that dominates the existing capital system – like traditional loans or equity. 

Interdisciplinary Authors - November 2023

This project will begin November 1st following a kick-off meeting and orientation for all student-hires. The end-date for the project and deliverable submission deadline is November 30th at 11:59 PM MST. The Antarctic Institute of Canada (AIC) is a non-profit organization that conducts research activities, academic mentorship programs, and equity building through a variety of government-funded work initiatives for undergraduate and graduate students. The AIC is seeking post-secondary students currently enrolled in a post-secondary program to author a variety of texts for publication. Topics and guidelines will be determined following the kick-off meeting. Participants will produce a finalised deliverable of a minimum 4500-word article. Applicants must be comfortable writing according to a variety of conventions and formats and within diverse topic-areas. Contact antarcticinstituteofficial@gmail.com for questions.

Phase 2: Capitalizing Indigenous Entrepreneurs

The main goal of this project is to research and develop new social finance instruments for Indigenous Entrepreneurs. This will involve talking with Indigenous entrepreneurs, capital providers, and ecosystem actors to understand their needs, challenges, and opportunities. The project also involves researching existing social finance instruments and traditional ones. These new instruments will complement, leverage, and/or improve, not compete with or replace, existing capital providers. These new instruments will also be culturally appropriate, not harm entrepreneurs, nor bind them into colonial ways of oppression that dominates the existing capital system – like traditional loans or equity. 

Phase 3: Capitalizing Indigenous Entrepreneurs

The main goal of this project is to research and develop new social finance instruments for Indigenous Entrepreneurs. This will involve talking with Indigenous entrepreneurs, capital providers, and ecosystem actors to understand their needs, challenges, and opportunities. The project also involves researching existing social finance instruments and traditional ones. These new instruments will complement, leverage, and/or improve, not compete with or replace, existing capital providers. These new instruments will also be culturally appropriate, not harm entrepreneurs, nor bind them into colonial ways of oppression that dominates the existing capital system – like traditional loans or equity.