Changemaker TIPP Fund

The TLC is excited to support Changemaking Education at UFV by offering a Teaching Inquiries into Pedagogical Practices (TIPP) fund. The TIPP fund is open to instructors who are engaged in or wanting to explore teaching and learning opportunities that reflect Changemaking principles and vision. The fund is designed to promote informal inquiry into practice, and facilitate rich conversations about how to inspire students to become changemakers through their educational experiences at UFV.

Extended! Applications for the TIPP Fund is open! Submit by November 20, 2025.

Interested in Changemaking?

Are you interested in exploring a new approach to teaching? Is there something you would try in your classroom if you had a bit of funding to make it possible? Teaching and Learning’s Teaching Inquiries into Pedagogical Practices (TIPP) Fund is how you can make that happen. TIPP supports UFV educators in exploring innovative approaches to teaching and learning through informal, faculty-driven investigations.

These inquiries can be pursued individually or collaboratively and provide a chance to experiment with new ideas and formats of engagement. This fund provides space and support to try something transformative.

For 2025–2026, the TIPP Fund focuses on regenerative sustainability, an approach that moves beyond sustaining existing systems to actively repair, restore, and enhance the vitality of learners, communities, and the ecosystems we belong to. This year’s call invites faculty to design projects that engage social, cultural, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainability.

The TIPP Fund provides up to $500 per project, along with support from the TLC’s Changemaker Curriculum Developer. Funds must be used in Winter 2026, and recipients will be expected to share their inquiry reflections with the broader UFV community.

Inquiry categories, criteria, and details below:

Inquiry Categories

Faculty are invited to submit proposals aligned with one of the following four categories:

Indigenization and Decolonization: Projects that support reconciliation and the revitalization of Indigenous ways of knowing along with inquiries focused on land/place-based learning, relational pedagogies, or decolonizing knowledge systems.
Social, Cultural, Environmental, or Economic Sustainability: Projects that promote sustainable practices across one or more of UFV’s four sustainability pillars. This may include initiatives focused on equity, cultural preservation, climate action, or environmental and economic justice.
Resilience: Projects that prepare students and systems to adapt and thrive in the face of change. This includes student-ready pedagogies that support learner well-being, adaptability, and future-readiness. Projects may also draw on OneHealth principles to think across systems and promote resilience.
Regenerative Thinking: Projects that actively regenerate ecological health, community well-being, and educational practices. These inquiries may involve design thinking, systems thinking, trauma-informed practices, or transformative learning models.

Criteria

Open to tenured, tenure-track, and term-appointed instructors.
TIPP projects to be conducted in Winter 2026 and expense claims to be submitted by March 31, 2026.
Projects may be individual or collaborative.
Fund allocations will vary depending on submissions to a maximum fund per application of $500.
TIPP Fund Application Form must be submitted to TLC@ufv.ca by November 20, 2025 and successful proposals will be notified by November 28, 2025 (Dates have been extended; previous deadline was Nov. 12).
Upon completion, recipients will submit an inquiry reflection and share their learning with the UFV community (through interviews, blog posts, or participation in ConnectED).