Nokom’s House

Create belonging for Indigenous students this Giving Tuesday

Make an Impact

Double your impact with every dollar contributed going toward Nokom’s House—turn your $25 gift into a $50 donation. Gifts to Nokom’s House will be matched up to a total of $5,000 thanks to our generous matching donor. Only online gifts made after 7 am on November 28 are eligible for matching.

Please note — once the match level has been achieved ongoing contributions to Nokom’s House are welcome to fund this important project.

About Nokom’s House

Nokom’s House will allow researchers, students, and community partners to explore learning, community wellness, planning and development, by engaging with the wide family of relations, including fellow humans, ancestral and spirit connections as well as plants, animals, lands and waters. 

The construction of a sustainable Indigenous land-based research lab on campus has the following goals:

• Create a space where University and local community can engage in practices that enhance wellness through relationship building with “all our relations” (human, natural world, and spirit world).
• Provide a land-based learning environment for Indigenous community planning and development.
• Establish a community and land-based environment for developing Indigenous pedagogies.
• Model post-secondary decolonizing spaces and places through innovative pedagogies and community collaboration.

Our Matching Donors
We thank the Margaret and Kenneth Torrance Family Fund for its generous matching donation. In addition to donating to Nokom’s House, the Syer-Torrance family supported the establishment of multiple endowed awards at the University of Guelph. Margaret says, “education was life-changing for my husband and I, and we’re giving back to ensure continuing educational opportunities for University of Guelph students.”

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