Healthy Communities
Healthy communities are environments that prioritize and promote physical, mental, and social well-being through accessible healthcare, green spaces, affordable housing, and community engagement.
NewsJune 2017 Community Investment
The Board of Governors of the Alberta Real Estate Foundation approved $520,000 in community investment projects at their recent meeting.
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March 2017 Community Investment
The Board of Governors of the Alberta Real Estate Foundation approved $348,000 in community investment projects at their recent meeting.
ResourceLove Your Headwaters
We rely on the headwaters of the Rocky Mountains for 90% of Alberta’s drinking water. Fed by rain, snow, and glacier ice, these landscapes absorb, clean, and release our water into streams and river systems — eventually reaching our homes in communities across the province.
ResourceEvict Radon
Canada contains many radon gas-generating regions and, because we have constructed population centres across all of them, radon is the primary cause of lung cancer in 10,000- 40,000 Canadians per decade. We have conducted detailed radon gas analysis of 11,000+ homes spread across Alberta and Saskatchewan, finding that 1 in 6 contain hazardous amounts of radon with newer homes in many regions (but not all) having much higher total radon. We have revealed an unknown “X factor” within environmental design practice across regions that is a major contributor to radon exposure, and our goal now is to understand this and develop solutions to protect the population. We aim to (i) identify modifiable behaviors and environmental design practices influencing chronic radon exposure in our changing world and (ii) define engineering and community intervention solutions applicable within the Canadian context to eliminate radon as a source of cancer in the future.
Annual Report2016
The Foundation produces an annual report and presents audited financial statements each fiscal year to report on the impactful ways we deliver on our mandate.
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September 2016 Community Investment
The Board of Governors of the Alberta Real Estate Foundation approved $239,500 in community investment projects at their recent meeting.
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June 2016 Community Investment
The Board of Governors of the Alberta Real Estate Foundation approved $235,000 in community investment projects at their recent meeting.
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March 2016 Community Investment
The Board of Governors of the Alberta Real Estate Foundation approved $445,000 in community investment projects at their recent meeting.
ResourceCommunity Needs Assessment Study
As a support agency to the social profit sector FuseSocial’s role is to aid other agencies to not only recover from the effects of the 2016 wildfire but improve the quality of life in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. FuseSocial presents the results of this study and other survey series to key stakeholders and funders in order for them to understand the needs of the community and address them. We help other agencies to help the community.
ResourceThe Alberta Water Nexus: Energy, Food, People
Water is the nexus between food, energy, and people. Water is required to meet the demands of our growing population, to maintain and improve environmental health, and to support the production of food and energy. As the availability of water changes and our population grows meeting the demands in the Nexus will become increasingly challenging.