Bridging Healing and Reconciliation in Edmonton | John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights
$20,000
Bridging Healing and Reconciliation in Edmonton aimed to deepen connections between youth through educational programming on diversity, with a focus on integrating Aboriginal perspectives and ensuring that our history of residential schools is a centrepiece for discussion and learning.

Collaborating for Community Engagement: Young Faith Leaders and Apathy is Boring
Location: Montreal, Quebec
$20,000
The Collaborating for Community Engagement: Young Faith Leaders and Apathy is Boring project supported young leaders of diverse beliefs facing the common challenge of reaching out to unengaged peers and fostering participation in the community.

Dialogue on Duluth | Maison de ‘l’Amitié de Montreal
Location: Montreal, Quebec
$15,000
Through the Indigenous Ways of Being on Turtle Island project, Aboriginal youth introduced newcomer youth to Indigenous history, spirituality and strategies that support social integration and respect for diversity.

Human Library on Religion and Spirituality Curated, Promoted and Documented by Montreal Youth | Bibliothèque et centre d’informatique Atwater
Location: Montreal, Quebec
$20,000
Young Canadians of different beliefs created a Human Library with the theme Youth, Religion and Spirituality: Fostering Dialogue and Understanding for a Better Future.

Indigi-asia Cross Cultural Exchange Program | Native Canadian Centre of Toronto
$5,000
The Indigi-asia Cross Cultural Exchange Program created new friendships in a downtown neighbourhood between the local Chinese and Indigenous communities. It supported young adults of both backgrounds to exchange spiritual perspectives and ways of life, and share common interests and challenges.

Indigenous Ways of Being on Turtle Island | Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc.
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba
$20,000
Through the Indigenous Ways of Being on Turtle Island project, Aboriginal youth introduced newcomer youth to Indigenous history, spirituality and strategies that support social integration.

Intercultural young women’s leadership project & youth-led community actions | Girls Action Foundation
Montreal, Quebec
$15,000
The Intercultural Young Women’s Leadership Project & Youth-Led Community Actions brought together young women from diverse ethnicities and belief systems, representing 25 communities across Canada, under the common cause of greater justice and equity in society.

Nipawin Oasis Building Bridges with Culture and Young Adults | Native Canadian Centre of Toronto
$10,000
Through the Nipawin Oasis Building Bridges with Culture and Young Adults project the First Nation, Métis & Inuit and the non-Aboriginal people in Nipawin shared elements of Aboriginal culture, spirituality and traditions that bridged what has been lost throughout the generations.

OneVoice | Muslim Association of Canada
Location: Ontario
$12,000
The OneVoice project provided a forum for youth to use faith as a means of communication and understanding as opposed to a means for conflict. It addressed misunderstanding through education and dialogue, bringing about change in thoughts and actions at the community level.

The Sacred Water Circle Youth Voices Project | Peterborough Green-Up
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
$20,000
In the Sacred Water Circle Youth Voices Project an interfaith youth advisory panel, including First Nations youth, participants developed a unified vision and action plan for an environmental conference, the Sacred Water Circle Gathering 2013.

The Seva Project | Sikhs Serving Canada
Location: Ontario
$15,000
Through the Seva Project young Canadians participated in a leadership development program where they created volunteer partnerships with secular and faith-based organizations and mobilized other young people to participate in volunteer engagement initiatives.

The Spiritus Project | UforChange Movement
Location: Toronto, Ontario
$20,000
The Spiritus Project is a transmedia theatrical project that addressed community challenges such as religion, race and discrimination.

Young Adult Interfaith Project | Abbotsford Community Services Society
Location: Abbottsford, British Columbia
$20,000
The Young Adult Interfaith Project included drop-in gatherings and tours of local places of worship. The goal was to encourage young Canadians to create more inclusive communities by learning about different faith groups.

Young Adults Connect Diverse Communities in Lunenburg Queens through Stories and Art | The United Way of Lunenburg County
Location: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
$20,000
This project addressed the need to raise awareness and understanding of the growing diversity of spiritual and secular orientations in a rural community.

Visions of Unity in Diversity | CultureLink Settlement Services
Location: Toronto, Ontario
$18,000
Through the Visions of Unity in Diversity project young people learned photography skills while exploring the religious diversity of Toronto and interacting with people of different religious, secular and spiritual backgrounds, including urban First Nations youth.

Divine Interventions: Documentary, Spirituality and Social Justice | Documentary Organization of Canada
Location: National
$25,000
Through a series of documentary screenings followed by panel discussions and open forum dialogues on Canadian campuses, students explored the role that spirituality, religion and secularism can play in fostering – or inhibiting – participation in social causes.

Inspirit Foundation Pluralism Prize
Location: Toronto, Ontario
$10,000
Launched in 2012 in partnership with Hot Docs, the Inspirit Foundation Pluralism Prize was awarded to a Canadian documentary that addressed issues of pluralism and diversity of beliefs. The 2012 winner was Boxing Girls of Kabul, directed by Ariel Nasr. In 2013, the $10,000 prize went to Bà Nội, directed by Khoa Lê.

The Spirit of Social Change Series
$25,000
The Spirit of Social Change was a series of conversations held in universities across Canada. The goal of the series was to ignite discussions on how the spiritual, moral, and ethical commitments of young people can contribute to positive social action.