OPIRG is represented on important campus and community partnerships that strengthen our impact and allow mutually rewarding contributions from OPIRG and our partner organizations
Get Support
Do you want OPIRG McMaster to be a part of your event? To co-sponsor? Do you need help with promotion? Need a room booking? Have a plan that needs support? If you are a campus or community group, then you are at the right place.
We support research and action in a variety of forms, including skills development training and organizing support. We also set aside funding to support other campus and community initiatives. If you think your event is in line with OPIRG McMaster’s principles, follow the steps below to request support.
STEP ONE: Read our Support Granting Policy here and/or our Room Booking Policy here.
STEP TWO: Once you’ve read the appropriate policy, please fill out our Application for Support form (linked below).
STEP THREE: You may be required to make a brief (<5 minute) presentation to our Board of Directors. After the meeting, you will be notified by a staff or board member if your support application is approved or denied.
STEP FOUR: Once your event is complete, fill out the Event Report form (linked below) within 30 days to report back to us on how it went.
CURRENT PARTNERSHIPS
PREVIOUS PARTNERSHIPS
Hamilton Street Tree Project
A pilot project in 2013, the Street Tree Project developed into a five-year partnership with the city of Hamilton’s street tree programme so the project could target communities with higher than average poor air quality in a door to door campaign to sign people up for a free street tree.
OPIRG hired a student to coordinate the door to door campaign each year. Thanks to the work of McMaster students Jonathon Valencia (2013), Krista Kruja (2014), Harshal Patel (2015), Hannah Walters-Vida (2016) and Chelsea Lowes (2017) we garnered 278 Street Tree requests from residents in the lower city with a four year average of 82% of the requests planted!
Beyond the partnership with the City of Hamilton Forestry department, the Street Tree Project also created valuable connections with:
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- Environment Hamilton where we joined the Air and Tree Taskforce made up of community groups like the Hamilton Naturalist Club as well as City of Hamilton staff from Forestry and Climate Change departments et al
- McMaster’s Research Shop conducted research for us on best-practices with door-to-door campaigning
- City Councillors in wards three and four (Councillors Bernie Morelli, Matthew Green and Sam Merulla)
- Neighbourhood hubs in Keith and Crown Point, et al
- And the volunteers and people in the neighbourhoods who helped create a greener and cleaner airshed
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COMMERCE 4SG3 - Corporations and Society
Brent McKnight’s class worked with OPIRG McMaster to developing ways to increase our project impact, and onboard new projects.