Investment Partners - Mount Royal University

Investment Partners

Institutes at MRU are financially independent, relying exclusively on funding and investment partnerships with donors and organizations in the broader community. Our current funding partners make everything we do possible:

Indigenous Partnerships

We believe that community prosperity in Canada requires recognition that we are all treaty peoples. We cannot address philanthropy, community investment, social innovation or change leadership in isolation from Indigenous peoples in our communities. To date, we have engaged in the following partnerships and activities, as initial steps:

Member of the MRU planning committee, Bridge-Building With Indigenous Education Stakeholders, which arose out of the Strategic Planning Framework of MRU’s Aboriginal Steering Committee
Member and active participant in the Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
Sponsor of the Treaty Seven Field Course at MRU
Sponsor of the MRU speaking event Wab Kinew: Investing in Tomorrow
With Thrive Calgary and Simon Fraser University, hosted an Indigenomics Workshop
Advisor to a national Aboriginal Social Innovation Summit, planned for November, 2015 in Winnipeg
Signatories to the Declaration of Canadians for a New Partnership

Other Partnerships

The Institute currently serves as a partner or advisor on the following initiatives:

Change Collective: Partnership with the United Way of Calgary and the Burns Memorial Fund
Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations: Member and frequent collaborator
Enactus Mount Royal: Part of Enactus MRU's Business Advisory Group
Queens School of Business, Centre for Social Impact: Research design and collaboration
The Calgary Foundation: Providing an environmental scan and advising, in partnership with Creating Value Inc., on the Vibrant Shift/Vibrant Priorities process
Community Foundations Canada Conference 2015: The Wild, Wild Why: Futurecasting Canada