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Monday, January 17, 2022

Alberta not included in ‘Sixties Scoop’ Healing Foundation inaugural grant funding




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The Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta (SSISA) feels it was left out when it comes to accessing new funding.


In December 2021, the Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation
announced eight Indigenous organizations will get just over $1 million
in funding under the foundation’s 2021 Pilot Grant Program.

The SSISA, however, was not one of them.

“We’re
talking about thousands of people in Alberta shut out of a process that
nobody was aware of,” said Sandra Relling, president of the SSISA.

“We
thought that perhaps it might be upcoming, so we were waiting for some
sort of feedback either on their website or through the emails we sent
to the organization looking for information on the process.”


Read more:

Indigenous organizations call for national inquiry into ’60s Scoop


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