Lead: Resource Coordinator

The ESPC Social Justice Internship facilitates the work of creative young activists in the community. Interns develop a project proposal, workplan, learning outcomes, and project outcomes in partnership with ESPC staff, and benefit from mentorship and other in-kind resources to put their ideas into action.

For more information, contact the ESPC Resource Coordinator at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , or call 780.423.2031x354.

Lead: Resource Coordinator

threeSOURCE builds on the Edmonton Social Planning Council's extensive library collection, which has been cultivated over the last seven decades to include resources related to housing, education, food security, urban issues, children and child care, and a wealth of other social issues.  The focus of this collection is publications by, for, and about the third sector in Alberta.  Other resources with a wider geographic scope that are relevant to this Alberta are also available.  threeSOURCE exists to promote awareness of and access to this information, and will be useful to policy makers, researchers and service providers.

Resources in this collection can be retrieved through simple searching at www.threesource.ca.  Many of the newest resources added to threeSOURCE are available online, linking to PDFs from search results within threeSOURCE.  

Lead: Research Coordinator and Research and Communications Assistant

The ESPC will be updating its flagship publication, Tracking the Trends, by fall 2013.  The publication includes a variety of historical and current data on demographic and socioeconomic trends in the Edmonton area and will also focus on immigration issues.

Click here for our previous Tracking the Trends 2011.

Lead: Research Coordinator

Working with the Edmonton Homeless Commission, the ESPC will be working on an assessment of the Edmonton's 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness in its fourth year of implementation.

Vital Signs

Lead: Research Coordinator and Research and Communications Assistant

The Edmonton Social Planning Council has joined up with the Edmonton Community Foundation to produce Edmonton's first Vital Signs report. Vital Signs is prepared annually by community foundations across Canada. It provides a reader-friendly overview of trends and issues that affect quality of life in our communities.

For more information about Vital Signs, visit the Community Foundations of Canada website at www.vitalsignscanada.ca.