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🏛️ About Us – Bristow Community Foundation
Bristow Community Foundation is a Canadian nonprofit dedicated to preserving and celebrating community heritage through innovative, inclusive digital experiences.Our flagship initiative, Viking Roots, builds on the legacy of the original Gimli Saga book—a community-published genealogical collection from Gimli, Manitoba. We are reimagining it for the next generation through a dynamic, AI-powered platform that allows families to tag photos, share stories, and build interactive timelines.
The platform empowers users to contribute their own family histories while maintaining control over privacy and data-sharing. Our goal is to create a living, multilingual archive that honors the past, connects the present, and inspires the future—for Icelandic Canadians and communities around the world.
- Number of employees
- 0 - 1 employees
- Company website
- https://vikingroots.com
- Industries
- Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
- Representation
- Women-Owned Disabled-Owned Community-Focused
Recent projects
Heritage Explorer: AI-Enhanced Genealogy Platform
To have a team of at least 2-3 people work together to develop a dynamic, AI-powered genealogy platform where users can upload and tag family photos, interact with conversational story prompts, and build visually rich timelines. Photos appear in a vintage-style viewer, while smart prompts and data appear beside them—creating an elegant, interactive way to preserve and grow family histories.
Social Media Marketing Campaign
We would like to work with students to design a new social media marketing campaign for our company. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our company’s products, social media campaign goals and target market. Identifying social media channels and strategies suitable for our company. Planning types of campaign content to create for each channel. Identifying metrics to monitor throughout the campaign. Creating a social media content calendar that outlines important steps in the campaign. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending social media management tools to schedule our content.
Viking Roots Funding and Collaboration Initiative
Viking Roots, a cultural heritage organization, seeks to enhance its financial and collaborative capabilities by securing grant funding, engaging with local heritage groups, and managing donor relationships. The project aims to provide learners with the opportunity to apply their knowledge of grant writing, stakeholder communication, and project management. The team will research potential government grants, draft a comprehensive grant proposal, and develop a strategic plan for collaboration with local heritage organizations. Additionally, they will create a follow-up system for donor requests to ensure effective communication and relationship management. This project will allow learners to gain practical experience in nonprofit operations and community engagement, while contributing to the preservation and promotion of Viking heritage.