Dignity is not a privilege.
It is the work.
Four programme pillars. Fifteen communities. One conviction — that the people closest to a problem are the ones who can solve it, given the resources to try.
Edmonton City · 2026
- People reached this year
- 2,000People reached this year
- Communities partnered with
- 15Communities partnered with
- Programme pillars
- 4Programme pillars
- Of every dollar to programmes
- 100%Of every dollar to programmes
- 01Pillar OneAfter-School Academic Tutoring & Enrichment ProgramOur flagship programme
- 02Pillar TwoFocus on Refugees and ImmigrantsA confident start in Canada
- 03Pillar ThreeA New HopeDignity, hope and opportunity
- 04Pillar FourInternational Conferences and Knowledge ExchangeKnowledge shared across borders
Our core values
ExcellenceIntegrityEquityCompassionInnovationCollaborationLeadershipInclusion
We don't arrive with a plan for a community. We arrive with a question: what would you build if the resources were finally yours?
JACEF invests in the organisations and people already doing the work — then stays long enough to see it hold. Every programme is designed with a local committee, measured in public, and handed over when it can run without us.
Read our storyTwo students, two tutors, one table. What looks like homework is really confidence being built an hour at a time.
Two tutors and two students at an after-school tutoring session
See the education programme
- Scholars funded
- 2%Scholars funded
- Progress to the next year
- 87%Progress to the next year
- Partner schools
- 10%Partner schools
The people who know best.
I volunteer at JACEF because showing up is the smallest thing I can do, and it is the one that changes someone's week.
Get involved
Give a season.
Change a decade.
A recurring gift lets us commit to a community for years, not months. One gift funds a scholar's full year, a week of mobile clinic, or 300 meals in the community kitchen.
Registered charity · Annual report published each March