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Research and Resources

SFPIRG serves as a resource centre for SFU students and the community. We currently have a number of different ways that you can access resources through the organization, including our student lounge, social justice lending library, bike tool co-op and more. We also have some great research projects, such as Letters for the Inside (providing information to people in prison) and ARX. Check out the details below...

Quest Food Exchange

Quest Food Exchange Quest is BC's largest not-for-profit food exchange program. SFPIRG has partnered with them in order to help support people facing financial hardship to access affordable, healthy food. If you are struggling to afford groceries, drop by SFPIRG and talk to a staff member about referring you.

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Living Wage SFU

Living Wage SFU

SFPIRG is one of the organizing members of the Living Wage SFU Campaign. Our Living Wage Campaign has a simple aim: we want to ensure that everyone who works at SFU gets paid a LIVING WAGE. A Living Wage is defined as a wage to cover a family’s basic ...

Grants for Social and Environmental Work

SFPIRG Grants

SFPIRG's Grants Committee (formerly the Donations Committee) accepts applications for grants from student and community organizations year-round. Awards to successful applicants are made once at the end of each semester (except for the Usamah Ansari Award).

The application deadlines are:

FALL DEADLINE: October 31

SPRING DEADLINE: February 28

USAMAH ...

Bike Tool Co-op

Bike Tool Coop

The Bike Tool Co-op is a free do-it-yourself space to fix your bicycle. We have a bike stand and most standard bike tools, including pumps, tube patching, tools for gears, brakes, hubs, truing stand and more.

The co-op is free and open to everyone. Use it to maintain your commuter ...

Student Lounge

SFPIRG Lounge

Couches, comfy chairs, a phone, a microwave, a fridge, a kettle, free coffee & tea every Tuesday (during term time). Need we say more? Come and relax, eat lunch, meet up with friends, browse the library, read the magazines and more.

Open to everyone Monday to Friday, 10:30am to 4 ...

Student Organizing Resources

 
Student Organizing Resources SFPIRG has lots of resources to help support students who are involved in social and environmental organizing.  Drop by SFPIRG (TC326 in the Rotunda) or email info@sfpirg.ca for further information.
 
This includes access to:
 
  ► use of the meeting room & lounge for your meetings & events
  ► office supplies
  ► photocopying
  ► coffee ...

Letters for the Inside

Letters for the Inside (LFTI) is a nationally-recognized project where student researchers respond to research requests from prisoners. The aim of LFTI is to increase inmates' access to information, and by doing so seeks to provide a better quality of life on the inside and also to assist in inmate ...

Social Justice Lending Library

Social Justice Lending Library

Drop by SFPIRG and sign-up for your FREE membership to the Rotunda Libraries, which also includes the libraries of Out on Campus and the Women's Centre.

The SFPIRG library has almost 7500 books, DVD's, magazines and reports on a wide variety of social and environmental issues. All materials ...

Idle No More

INM

SFPIRG stands in solidarity with Idle No More!

This page has been created to put resources and information out there about IDLE NO MORE and to encourage people to get involved. More readings and information to be posted here soon! Email us at outreach@sfpirg.ca to recommend additions. This ...

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What's Happening

Workshop Design and Facilitation Course for Social Change Makers

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Dates: Wednesdays & Fridays from May 22nd to June 21st.

Times: 12-4pm

Cost: FREE! Donations to SFPIRG's Accessibility Fund are welcome, but not required.

Register ...

Venue: West Mall 3531, SFU Burnaby

Critical Masculinity Series: Hazing & Fraternities

May 27, 2013

Time: 12:30 - 2:00pm

The Critical Masculinities discussion series seeks to explore the social constructions and expressions of manhood in day-to-day life – including on ...

Venue: SFPIRG, TC326 in the Rotunda, SFU Burnaby

Critical Masculinity Series: Sexuality

June 27, 2013

Time: 12:30 - 2:00pm

The Critical Masculinities discussion series seeks to explore the social constructions and expressions of manhood in day-to-day life – including on ...

Venue: SFPIRG, TC326 in the Rotunda, SFU Burnaby

Critical Masculinity Series: Clint Eastwood & Masculine Identity

July 25, 2013

Time: 12:30 - 2:00pm

The Critical Masculinities discussion series seeks to explore the social constructions and expressions of manhood in day-to-day life – including on ...

Venue: SFPIRG, TC326 in the Rotunda, SFU Burnaby

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