Our offerings

Our offerings are simple.

We’re committed to working alongside Northern Peoples to deepen and expand understanding of global cooperation.

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Our work spans three interwoven pathways.

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Learn

Decolonizing our practice, challenging implicit paradigms.

Learn 
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Reflect

Connecting across cultures through the intimate power of storytelling.

Reflect 
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Engage

Expanding perspectives in a global horizon for Northerners.

Engage
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Learn

REFRAME

Embark on a reframing journey to connect and strengthen narratives that contribute to true global solidarity.

“As inequality and environmental degradation worsen, we search not only for alternative development models but also for alternatives to development itself.”

— Arturo Escobar

Alternatives to Development

We offer learning programs for NGOs, educators, policymakers, and young people interested in taking the steps needed to reframe their current approach to international development. We believe that by challenging implicit paradigms and social structures, this is an offering meant to support those working towards global solidarity that embodies a plurality of world views.

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Reflect

Cultivate

Great storytelling begins with great storytellers. We support initiatives to develop technical and creative skills for emerging storytellers.

“Some of the sweetest stories of this era are yet to be heard by the world, and you my nieces and nephew hold them in your minds and hearts. Each one being honoured by the telling, the sharing with another human being, who also has a story to tell. 

— louise profeit-leblanc

Storytelling Mentorships

Connect across cultures through the intimate power of stories, photos and film. A storytelling mentorship program for emerging storytellers who want to use their story as an advocacy tool for change.

Create

Stories shape how we understand the world, our place in it, and our ability to change it. NCGC is proud to support filmmakers in their quest to tell their own stories and share them with the world.

Reconnection Vision

We recently supported filmmaker, Jared Dulac's production of the Yukon First Nations Climate Action Fellowship's film, on Reconnection, to tell the story of this unique program.

Share

Great stories need to be heard (and seen). We curate multimedia exhibitions to invite audiences to explore the many worlds within our world, and the stories that bring them to life.

Northern Perspectives on the SDGs

A photography project with roots in the North - in 2019, NCGC asked nine photographers working across Canada’s three northern territories to characterize the Sustainable Development Goals through imagery and narration. Here is what they came up with.

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Gather

Deepening compassion begins with shared experiences. We host gatherings of various kinds to exchange insights and explore worldviews.

Atlin Lake Gathering

In summer of 2022, NCGC joined a group of activists, academic, artists and elders from across Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Turtle Island (North America) to paddle, swim and share stories by firelight.

Represent

We support Northerns pursue opportunities to participate in global forums, from COP27 to the UN's Commission on the Status of Women.

NCGC holds special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and observer status with UNFCCC – COP.

COP 27 Egypt

NCGC supported Carissa Waugh, a citizen of the Taku River Tlingit First Nation, to join other global climate activists at the 2022 COP27 Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

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Through our social media channels, we provide a space for stories, discourse and ideas to better understand the world in which we live (newsletters, blogs, podcasts, and more.

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The Film Library

NCGC maintains a small collection of documentary films that can be borrowed for educational screenings.Contact us for more information.

Our Fellowship

Meet our 2022 Global Fellowship.

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Stacey Mati

Kenya

Stacey Mati is driven by the quote  ‘be the change you want to see in the world'.  Stacey is a passionate advocate for child rights, mental health awareness, and women’s rights. Stacey's most recent research is centred around child protection during conflict, particularly within the context of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her educational background includes a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in International Relations with a major in peace and conflict studies.

Lucy Wanjiku Njenga

Kenya

Lucy Wanjiku Njenga is a dynamic young leader who prides herself in creating an enabling environment for other young leaders to thrive. She has worked in the HIV responses for ten years with experience in establishing feminist movements as well as agitating for gender equality from the grassroot level to global level. She is the Founding Coordinator of Sauti Skika, the first network of adolescents living with HIV in Kenya and the Founder and Executive Director of Positive Young Women Voices, a grassroot community-based organization that works to empower adolescent girls and young women living with or affected by HIV. 

She serves as the Alternate Board Member in the Country Coordinating Mechanism to the Global Fund and a former African Delegate to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board. She is currently a Her Voice Fund Ambassador Angel to three Ambassadors who are a power to be reckoned with. 

Jackline Kemigisa

Uganda

Kemigisa is a feminist journalist, writer, researcher, and podcaster. Currently, she is a Research Affiliate with the Center for Arts Design and Social Research, working with the team organising the Black Planetary Future conversations. As a podcaster, Kemigisa co-hosts the Wulira history podcast, focusing on rewriting women in their Ugandan history. She also part of the team curating research and documentation on women’s participation in philanthropy specifically building different understanding of giving outside of Western fragmenting.

Her research focusing on feminist resistance has been instrumental in formulating tools for Women Human Rights defenders, as well as Feminists aspiring leaders in Eastern Africa. Kemigisa s’ latest paper documenting digital feminist organisation in Eastern Africa was published as book chapter contribution to the “150 Years of Journalism in Eastern Africa”. As a journalist she writes for both national and international publications.  She is fascinated by the intersections of technology, decolonisation , media, history, and women.

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