Enjoy these stories of how our community members have been inspired to make something happen in their lives, and the role Assiniboine Credit Union was able to play in helping it become a reality.  

SEED SEED Winnipeg was recently awarded an "Empowering Your Communities Award."

Social Purchasing Portal The Social Purchasing Portal connects suppliers, purchasers, and job seekers who face multiple barriers to employment into a formal network.

Urban Eatin' Urban Eatin' is a group of young gardeners that responded to increased interest in local food production and environmentally sustainable yard care.

Peg City Car Co-op Peg City Car Co-op is now offering investment shares to help meet the goal of having 11 vehicles in more neighbourhoods within the next two years.

Neil Bardal Funeral Centre Neil Bardal Funeral Centre has something you wouldn't expect a funeral centre to have: a social media guy.

Makoonsag The vision of the Makoonsag childcare centre goes beyond simply providing a child-minding service to the students and community.

Winnipeg FoodShare Co-op Winnipeg FoodShare Co-op is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to good, healthy food.

Social Enterprise Centre The Social Enterprise Centre, a hub of 11 social enterprises, co-operatives and not-for-profit organizations.

IRCOM Since 1991, the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba (IRCOM) has been providing safe, affordable transitional accommodation for newcomers.

MAWA They will come this summer from as far away as Iran, Copenhagen, Montreal, Saskatchewan and Yukon and will be the new artists-in-residence above the offices of Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA).

SWEEP The historic Barber House on Euclid Avenue is home to The North Point Douglas Seniors Association.

Diversity Food Services The University of Winnipeg wanted to change its approach to institutional cafeteria food services on campus. Together with the non-profit SEED Winnipeg they created Diversity Food Services to provide nutritious, fairly priced and ethnically diverse food on campus and catering to the broader community.

Meet Ken Pickering Ken Pickering has lived in the North End for most of his life. He's a firm believer in the phrase "There's no place like home," and it shows. Almost as soon as he starts talking about the neighbourhood, it's obvious that he's proud of it, and very involved in community life.

Peg City Car Co-op Peg City Car Co-op held its official launch in June to coincide with Bike to Work Day. The timing was not a coincidence, as one of the goals of the co-op is to reach out to people who are already using multiple modes of transportation in their lives.

Nourishing Potential Assiniboine Credit Union is one of two lead partners in The Winnipeg Foundation's newest endowment, the Nourishing Potential Fund. Over the next several years, ACU will give a total of $250000 to this fund, helping it grow to its projected $5 million.

Meet Jhazz Hard hat? Check. Steel-toed boots? Check. Wanting to make a difference? Check. Those were all the tools required for more than 40 Assiniboine staff to be put to work on this year’s Habitat Build.

The WRENCH Opening day at The WRENCH's repair shop at 1057 Logan Avenue, and the symbolic ribbon cutting has been replaced by a lesson in how to remove a link from a bike chain. The walls are lined with neatly organized bike parts that have been donated or retrieved from the Brady Landfill.

Robertson-Mynarski Residents Association While we've heard 'it takes a village to raise a child', a north-end Winnipeg neighbourhood knows it takes a whole community to save an urban forest - one tree at a time.

Meet Meg Meg was a teenager when she started volunteering at the West End Cultural Centre. Now, as General Manager, Meg helps artists live their musical dreams.

Herizon Magazine If you're sure that women have reached equality and there's nothing left to do, you might want to take a look at Penni Mitchell's life-long work.

Soup Bee West Broadway’s Good Food Club has turned its interest in food security into a social enterprise – known as the Soup Bee.

ArtsJunktion Andrea Stuart and Melanie Janzen are bubbling with excitement as they display the items lining the shelves at ArtsJunktion. “Many businesses have items they regard as garbage and we see as treasures,” says Andrea. “Paper and fabric offcuts, clear containers, cardboard tubes, foam – we know how useful these materials are for artists and educators.”

Meet Responsible Electronics Recycling Like a lot of people, we used to wonder what to do with our old computers and printers at ACU. That is, until we met Alvin Keppler and the other folks at Responsible Electronics Recycling (RER).

Meet Raymond The seed of an idea for unique co-operative urban farms in Winnipeg can be traced all the way back to a refugee camp in Cameroon and a former agronomist running from the civil war in his home country of Chad.

Wabowden Gardeners The community of Wabowden, Manitoba is growing happier and healthier with a little help from Eleanor Woitowicz, Bonnie Monias and an ACU Sustainable Community Grant.

Meet Sarah When Sarah Seller, a single mom at age 21, saw that a friend who lived on low income just like her was able to buy new bedroom furniture and a computer, she was absolutely stunned. "How the heck did she do that?" Sarah asked herself.

Meet Ben Ben was a local chef looking to serve up something different. He was invited to help create a campus food program that looked at cafeteria fare in an unconventional way.

Ukrainian Labour Temple The Ukrainian Labour Temple on the corner of McGregor and Pritchard is one of the historic landmarks of the North End.