EPIC
OFFERS
AWARD-WINNING PROGRAMS
that...
OUR MISSION
EPIC creates and administers innovative educational programs for youth and adults in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Our mission is to advance marginalized learners through innovation, empathy, volunteerism, diversity and partnerships.
WELCOME
Educational Program Innovations Charity Society (EPIC)
is a national award-winning registered Canadian charity
and Nova Scotian incorporated society operating
in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada since 1996.
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EPIC'S 2024-2025 Recognition:
Our Core Program
This award-winning program, based in Sydney, NS, has been improving people's lives by providing free, after-school tutoring & mentoring program for marginalized kids 8 - 18 since 1998. Outreach programs now reach four additional communities. High school or university students serve as volunteer tutor-mentors.
Spreading the Impact
Our 5-year Peer Tutoring project began in 2024. The mission is to spread and foster more centres that model our award-winning Youth Peer tutoring/mentoring program.
EPIC offers training, assistance and support to these partner organizations
to in order to broaden and deepen the positive impacts for marginalized youth in Nova Scotia.
"The volunteers show them there is good in the world. They actually show them the good in themselves through positive reinforcement. They raise the bar for them, but not so far that they cannot reach it."
— Management Team Partner, NS Addiction Services