About the organization

The Canadian Cultural Mosaic Foundation (CCMF) is an award-winning not-for-profit organization run by committed volunteer Millennials and Gen Z. We work to improve race relations in Canada by creating cultural understanding through education, technology and arts. Being on the forefront of advocacy our foundation often works with ethnic communities on programming. Our Board of Directors lead the direction of our organization and team members lead projects. Our Board consists of BIPOC leaders, while team consists of people with various intersecting identities and racial backgrounds, all whom are volunteers.

History: We started out as a multicultural volunteer group in 2009 made up of post-secondary students in Calgary, and officially registered as a not-for-profit in 2015. 

Location: Our headquarters is situated on on Treaty 7 territory (Calgary), however our work is nation-wide.

Vision: Educate Canadians  |  Mitigate Racism  |  Promote Multiculturalism

Funding

We are 100% volunteer led, but do offer paid student internships from time to time through government programs or donations. We are not funded as an organization by anyone, but often partner up with other organizations to get a bit of funding for specific projects and events. Any donation we collect through our website are used on specific project promotions or paying artists or contractors (if necessary).

Some of the services we provide as an organization are to connect experts on our teams, as well as communities, with the right organizations. These services (such as audits, facilitations, trainings, strategies, case studies, focus groups, reports, programming etc.) will have a fee associated to them that are paid directly to the service-provider as a consultant.

Award and Honours

We have received several national awards and honours during the past years including:
  • Community Engagement Advocacy, Sarb Akal Association
  • Community Advocacy Award, M.O.S.A.I.C.
  • Excellence in the Community Award, PCCA Alberta
  • Diversity Award, Diversity Magazine
  • Leaders in Diversity Award, FACL Western