Edmonton Multicultural Coalition

the edmonton multicultural coalition is a not-for-profit society of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in edmonton, alberta. we work with community leaders, the voluntary sector and public institutions to ensure that individuals and ethno-cultural community organizations have equitable access to resources and opportunities to facilitate integration into their new homeland and improve their quality of life. the ongoing objectives are to: enable ethnic minorities to generate collective knowledge about health issues and recognize the policy implications of these issues; create opportunities for institutional/sector partners to build their "participatory capacity"; foster organizational skills of ethno-cultural organizations to act in their own interest and become agents of policy change and; establish an alliance of organizational and community partners across various platforms committed to the development of ethno-cultural communities.