Applications for our Spring 2025 cohort are open until January 23rd, 2025!
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RISE is a city-based project for young people ready to make positive changes in their community, but who may not be sure where to start.
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What is RISE?
An initiative under Canada Service Corps, RISE helps young people co-create community projects and contribute to strengthening our civic and democratic fabric by engaging on topics that interest them.
RISE is developing projects in 8 cities across Canada: Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Vancouver.
It's a 15-week program where youth sit with an idea and bring it to life! RISE provides youth with the skills, tools, knowledge, and resources (a 4k budget) needed to create real change in their communities.
Who can join?
RISE is designed for young people aged 18-30 with little or no previous experience in volunteeringwho live in or near one of our hub cities: Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, or Vancouver.
RISE Ambassadors are required to:
- Be available March 11th to June 21st, 2025
- Make a weekly commitment of 6 hours (3 hours in person and 3 hours of additional work for 15 weeks).
- Attend a mandatory, all-expenses paid weekend retreat April 11th to 13th.
- Attend a mandatory online wrap-up at the end of the cohort on June 21st.
- Have the desire to learn, grow, and explore alongside their peers!
Theme
Including all young people:
As an organization mandated with engaging all youth in our democracy, it is important for us to create space for young people who aren’t included in everyday conversations. Democracy starts locally and with the issues that concern us in our daily lives.
Barriers to Civic Engagement:
In the past, we've rooted our cohorts on specific themes such as environment, social inclusion, and gender, but moving forward, a more general theme will guide our community projects. We will explore challenges youth have observed or personally experienced that hinder their participation in civic engagement.
With this approach, each RISE hub will:
- Consult with youth in their local community about the barriers to civic engagement they encounter.
- Collect feedback from the community and focus on a common barrier.
- Co-create a community project with the hope of reducing this barrier.
Our partners
RISE is funded in part by Canada Service Corps, a national movement that empowers youth aged 15–30 to gain experience and build important skills while giving back to their community.
