Impact & Featured Articles

Global News - Feb 2025

Bridging the gap: Alberta-based aGRO Systems connects craft breweries and ranchers

Since 2018, one Alberta-based company has been working with craft breweries in Calgary to prevent spent grain from ending up in landfills or being under utilized at composting… keep reading

Pembina Institute - Sept 2018

Alberta’s Youth are Leading the Way on the Clean Energy Evolution

Pitching low-carbon ideas to a crowd of climate and energy thought leaders. Youth are growing up in a world in which the effects of climate change are becoming ever more prevalent, energy systems are shifting to low carbon and they are not waiting to take action. We’ve been hearing from… keep reading

Trico Charitable Foundation - Sept 2018

Owning My Journey: Developing Entrepreneurial Mindsets

Victoria Ross is a recent Bachelor of Commerce graduate from the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. The vision for her social enterprise aGRO Systems Inc., (aGRO) started with Victoria’s childhood memories growing up on a beef cattle ranch under the care of her dad… keep reading

Enactus - Feb 2017

Post-Secondary Students Battle for a Chance at $10,000 Through Entrepreneurial Competition

(TORONTO) 27 February 2017: Twelve post-secondary students who balance a full-time course load and a full-time business have been selected as finalists for the Student Entrepreneur National Competition, supported by the John Dobson Foundation. Participants will be flown out to… keep reading

Trico Charitable Foundation - Sept 2016

$700,000 Commitment Celebrates City Proclamation, Builds on YYC’s Energy as a Social Entrepreneurship Hub

To commemorate the first official Social Entrepreneurship Day in Calgary, Trico Charitable Foundation is pleased to announce $700,000 in local social entrepreneurship programming. “The existence of the Social…keep reading

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