community capacity building

Community Capacity Building program cohort present equity-focused projects

By: Yelin Gemma Lee, News Writer SFU Public Square and Lifelong Learning partnered to present Equity in Practice: More Stories of Community Capacity Building on September 9. The event promoted the success of SFU’s Community Capacity Building (CCB) certificate program, featuring five recent cohort learners and their projects.  The CCB certificate program, created in 2013, is a free program funded by the BC government. Its goal is to help program members “build deeper relationships with [themselves], community and the land, and to move forward the change [they’d] like to see in the world.”  Yvonne Rigsby Jones, the program’s class Elder,…

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