Join Skills Society for a three day workshop focused on exploring and supporting Quality of Life. Initially developed by Skills Society through an Alberta Health Services Research grant over 5 years ago, this course explores the University of Toronto model of Quality…

Post By Gavyn Backus: Gavyn is Skills Society’s part time Media and Community Development guy. Gavyn is also currently studying law at U of A and growing a mean beard in his spare time. CLICK to save and print a PDF Version Skills Society’s vision is of a…

One of our social innovation projects is going viral through Upworthy

October 2nd 2015 was a game changer of a day when we hosted a diverse collective in our Action Lab around what helps to build and strengthen vibrant, inclusive communities. We were grateful that the day was initially sparked when our allies at Deloitte asked how they…

Inclusion Alberta’s Position on PDD Safety Standards Regulation

We are excited for Dave Bilodeau being in another one of Hans Olson’s films. Hans Olson worked with Skills Society years ago and has kept in touch with Dave since that time. In fact after leaving Skills and going to film school, Hans has collaborated with Dave…

Check out this awesome mini documentary that Telus made about Emily and her work as a community builder with our CommuniTEA Infusion Project! For more information regarding our CommuniTEA Infusion Project please…

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“Skills Society has embarked on many activities that represent this year’s theme ‘Making It Happen’ ” —Pat Conrad, Executive Director of Skills Society The Skills Society 2015 Annual General Meeting (AGM) marked the completion of a highly innovative and successful…

Check out the link below for a recap of the exploration we had at the Stanley Milner Library around engaged citizenship. There is also a nice video in the link of the Lego Serious Play session that occurred that day. Link to Lego Serious Play Workshop…

Skills Society, Lift Interactive and Southern Alberta Community Living Association are collaborating to build a game changing social innovation that uses new technology to improve the quality of life of people receiving supports through human service organizations…

We are very excited to be collaborating with University of Alberta Community Service-Learning students, and the Edmonton Public Library to host a unique citizenship exploration at the downtown Stanley Milner Library on April 16th from 1-530pm.

Skills Society is excited to be awarded the Manasc Isaac Blue Sky Award and build our social lab and creative learning space.

We are excited to announce we have an online store. The store is currently selling Project Citizenship T-shirts and soon we will be selling art from the Making our Mark: Art and Citizenship exploration, Citizen hats, CommuniTEA Infusion T-shirts, Project Citizenship…

We were really happy that Project Citizenship and our think tank process was recognized internationally by the prestigious Stanford Social Innovation Review Magazine in February 2014. Read the full SSIR article over on our Project Citizenship website…

Skills Society is happy to have received support from the Neighbourhood Revitalization Matching Fund to build a community garden in the Little Italy area of the McCauley neighbourhood, just south of The Works office on 95th Street. This year, Skills Society is…

We are honoured to announce that on July 19, 2014, Project Citizenship was awarded the 2014 Digital Alberta Award for Digital Philanthropy Innovation! Digital Alberta is an industry-led organization devoted to promoting and connecting the thriving digital media…

On Sunday, June 22, the Making Our Mark exhibition held its opening reception at City Hall, as part of the 2014 Works Art & Design Festival. Making Our Mark emerged thanks to an Edmonton Arts Council grant which brought together professional SNAP Gallery artists…