Grants and Contributions

Through this 17-month project, the Ontario Native Women’s Association will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address Indigenous women’s voices in leadership and decision-making roles and will enhance their capacity to better engage with all levels of government on issues related to human rights. To do so, the project will: 1) identify the needs and develop key messages and priorities grounded in the voices of Indigenous women to continue to refine ONWA’s positions on Indigenous women’s human rights; 2) develop resources and build Indigenous women’s capacity for leadership and advocacy about Indigenous women’s human rights; and 3) build on and strengthen partnerships to advance Indigenous women’s human rights.

Through this 29-month project, the Comité FrancoQueer de l’Ouest will address 2SLGBTQI+ communities’ needs and barriers to equality. To achieve this, the Comité will enhance representation and engagement of Francophone and Francophile 2SLGBTQI+ communities in governing bodies through mobilizing and educating community partners on social media and organizing consultation workshops to gauge needs and expectations. Primary activities include initiating a dialogue and fostering collaboration with Anglophone queer organizations on joint initiatives to promote representation and inclusion, creating a specialized training program focused on developing skills and governance/leadership, and creating a tool and best practices guide to develop a monitoring and evaluation system for measuring the impact of new member engagement.

By the end of the project, the Comité FrancoQueer de l’Ouest will have increased the visibility and representation of Francophone 2SLGBTQI+ communities in local and regional governing bodies.

Through this 17-month project, Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan Inc. will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address board development, governance and training needs and ensure it is in a strong position to continue their work supporting member agencies to provide services to those experiencing gender-based violence. The project will include, evaluating and implementing internal policies, creating education materials for staff and conducting environmental scan and strategic planning.

Through this 9-month project, SOVEREIGN Core will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need for greater organizational sustainability and enhanced leadership. The project will include 1) enhancing organizational financial capacity; 2) strengthening governance and operational competencies; 3) enhancing technological capacity; and 4) measuring project impact and gathering community feedback.

Through this 17-month project, the Collectif des femmes immigrantes du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. It will address the organization’s need to improve its capabilities in coordination, organizational management, and communications management. The project will include boosting the Collectif’s representation, networking, and collaboration with community organizations; developing a strategic plan; creating a website; and holding training to build Collectif members’ skills.

Through this 29-month systemic change project, Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity and representation in leadership through systemic change. The project will engage with diverse senior women survivors of violence who face challenges in securing employment, pilot a program to promote senior women in leadership roles and support them to develop awareness raising and advocacy tools to challenging stereotypes. They will then collaborate with employers, job placement agencies, and relevant stakeholders to promote systemic policy changes in their institutions to improve senior women's access to the job market. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 18-month project, Sisters in Canada Wellness Society will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address organizational effectiveness, resource management, engagement and collaboration. The project will include publicity and community networking, strategic planning, leadership and management development, board training and policy development

Through this 18-month project, Stella, l’amie de Maimie will conduct a research project that will help improve gender-based violence services for at-risk groups, in collaboration with a social work researcher. The project will document Stella’s intervention model and address intervention methodologies and practices tailored to the needs of sex workers and others who exchange sexual services to improve this community’s access to services for women who have experienced violence, services from which they are generally excluded. The project will feature feminist and nondirective harm reduction approaches developed by and for sex workers. These approaches will focus on empowerment; human rights; the links between direct services and collective advocacy; and issues related to the management, training, and retention of peer support workers. To achieve this goal, the project will document the current intervention and engagement model at Stella, l’amie de Maimie and develop a formal intervention framework, a training guide, and training tools. To share the research findings, Stella, l’amie de Maimie will offer workshops for various groups working with sex workers across Canada.

Through this 19-month systemic change project, the Conseil d’intervention pour l’accès des femmes au travail du Québec Inc. will scale the project “Reducing systemic discrimination against women by promoting female-dominated trades” to advance women’s economic security and prosperity. They will scale the project by expanding its scope to all of Québec and by addressing a new women-dominated job sector. The project will address various issues: workplace harassment and violence, work-life balance problems, strained work relationships and poor union representation, and occupational health and safety. To do this, the project will promote a better understanding of the barriers that women experience in a targeted job sector, continue collaborations with current and future partners to make a meaningful difference in women’s working conditions, and broaden the scope of the recommendations for change through a visit to various key players.

Through this 32-month project, Accès transports viables will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity as well as their access to leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change. More specifically, the project will address systemic barriers in the fields of land-use planning and mobility by collecting data on mobility deficits and barriers facing the most vulnerable women and other people; sharing these data with stakeholders, including through meetings and a new professional network on inclusive mobility; improving the capacity of players in sustainable mobility to deploy suitable services and inclusive practices through establishing an innovation lab that brings together professionals in the field; and building the most vulnerable women’s and other people’s capacity to engage in civic participation and influence the sustainable mobility sector through the creation of a training and support program as well as a community of practice. An external evaluation will measure and assess the impact of this project on systemic change.