1.3.2010
Charity # / Numéro d’enregistrement: 862758448 RR0001

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2009-2010 Scholarship Recipient

The University of Victoria, Department of Writing recently announced the recipient of the Candis Graham Writing Scholarship. Julia Fabian is a fourth-year fiction major. This past year she has begun to explore homosexual and lesbian issues in her writing, and a story she wrote at the end of third year encouraged her to come out to her family and friends. She continues to write short stories, namely about family relationships and personal and sexual identity.

Other areas of interest/study include languages and international film and music.

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Honoring Jack Hallam

Trained as a biologist and zoologist (PhD, University of Toronto), Jack worked as a fish and wildlife biologist, college professor and Science Museum educator.  For the most recent fifteen years of his life, Jack has become known across Canada for his charitable support of equality rights endowing:

• Jack Hallam U.C. '52 scholarships in Sexual Diversities Studies, University of Toronto: one graduate and one undergraduate
• Jack Hallam/North South Partnership Bursaries (2) for First Nations Students, Lakehead University
• Lambda Foundation Jack Hallam Human Rights Awards, Gulf Island Secondary School, Salts Spring Island: one combating Homophobia and the other, Racism

Lambda Foundation is proud of Jack, and grateful for his initiative, vision and support.

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Gary Gibson Award

The principles for the Dr. Gary Gibson Lambda Foundation Award, Department of Family and Community Medicine at Providence Healthcare (formerly St. Paul's Hospital) have been agreed to at the teaching hospital for the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. This award, offered every second year, will encourage physicians conducting a research project during their residency that considers the specific health needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered people. At the end of their second year, the research project is often at a stage where the data is all collected, but there is still a significant amount of work to do to get it ready to publish. This award will help to provide residents the opportunity for their research to be recognized and promoted through publication by encouraging competitive projects of high merit.

Donations to the Gary Gibson Lambda Foundation Award may be directed to the St. Paul's Hospital Foundation or to Lambda Foundation at its online CanadaHelps website.

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Lambda at 25

Interviewed by Outlooks magazine (February 2010) Lambda President, Gary Sealey noted that, "Lambda has raised a quarter of a million dollars for university awards from coast-to-coast, funding authors of pivotal new work as well as research projects that advance educational awareness on queer culture in Canada."  Sealey adds that "current grants
and awards have funded everything from the “Queer Lexicography” to reports like “Bias and discrimination within the immigration process.”

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2008-2009 Scholarship Recipients

Alison Bates - Gulf Islands Secondary School, Lambda Foundation Jack Hallam Human Rights  Award

Matthew Pearson - Carleton University Lambda Award Laureate

Christopher Tatham - University of Guelph Lambda Scholarship in LBGT Studies

Kathleen Fortune - University of Manitoba Lambda/Les McAfee Memorial Award

Markus P. J. Bohlmann - University of Ottawa Lambda Award Laureate

Allison Blythe - University of Victoria, Candis Graham Writing Scholarship

Auden Cody Neuman - University of Victoria, Candis Graham Writing Scholarship

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Fundraising Partnerships

Each year LIX (Lesbian Information Exchange) partners with a charitable organization and donates the proceeds of the 'Proud Chicks Dance Party' which is a National Capital Pride event organized by LIX.

This year LIX partnered with Lambda Foundation and donated the Dance proceeds of $2,500.00 to the Foundation. A portion of this donation was directed to the Lambda Scholarships at the University of Ottawa and the University of Guelph where endowed funds had been affected by the global financial crisis.

Lambda extends a huge thank you to LIX and all the proud chicks who danced in support of education and research!

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