Equalearn Foundation

Our Organizations objectives remain: • To advance education by operating a tutoring service for elementary middle and high school students; • To advance education by providing financial literacy workshops to individuals experiencing poverty; • To relieve poverty by providing books equipment and educational aids to students in need; and • To undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the above charitable purposes We have continued to do this with our EquaTutor Program: - 1on1 personalized tutoring for low income newcomer families across Calgary - done in-person and online across the city of Calgary - Uses the better impact volunteer and client management software to organize our tutors and clients We have continued to do the EquaSupplies Program - distributed 30 backpacks of supplies to low income and newcomer students across calgary in the elementary and junior high age range We ran a new case competition program for university students to solve educational problems faced by the low income and newcomer families that we serve. They spent 3 weeks developing novel and implementable solutions to these deep rooted issues. 20 university students participated in this case competition. We received a grant from the UCalgary Student Union to support this project 1850 CAD.