Grants and Contributions

This 26-month project will increase organizational capacity to allow the organization to continue to promote social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: human resources management and strategic planning.

This 19-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include: commemoration walk, educational and awareness activities and a healing program.

This 7-month project will address organizational capacity needs of the Rainbow Coalition for Refuge (RC4R) and promote collaborative knowledge generation and dissemination amongst the emerging national network of LGBTQ2 refugee civil society organizations in order to offer LGBTQ2 newcomers safety, care, and resources for resilience, as well as opportunities for livelihood and civic participation. Organizational capacity building will be enhanced through the development of RC4R’s governance structure, expansion and formalization of membership using a community of practice model, and conducting needs assessments of regional hubs and the National network. Knowledge generation will be enhanced through a literature review, environmental scan, and focus groups and the sharing of this information via regional hubs and a National consultation to inform priority setting for community building and advocacy efforts.

This 24-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: Indigenous cultural and trauma-informed training for staff members, knowledge sharing, program development and sustainability planning.

This 12-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include: the creation and installation of a commemorative monument, coordination of an unveiling ceremony and feast, a Grandmother-led Sisters in Spirit walk, and a young women’s drum group.

This 9-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include a one-day gathering for families and the wider community as well as creating a memorial statue or item for the missing or murdered individuals.

This 19-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2+ individuals and increase awareness of their disappearance and death. Project activities will include two large meetings involving commemoration, support, mutual assistance and healing activities for the families as well as outreach activities for the general public.

The Project is based on the principle of mobilizing new funds and partnerships to support and engage Canada’s community foundations in an effort to accelerate gender equality at the local level.

This project will advance gender equality in Canada in two main ways: by providing contribution funding to community foundations to fund projects in their communities, and by weaving in gender equality best practices within community foundations.

As such, the Project will directly support action to advance gender equality across Canada by leveraging the broad reach of community foundations. The Project will foster gender equality in Canada and will contribute to removing long-standing barriers to gender equality by catalyzing new investments and partnerships. The Project will provide funding to local women’s organizations through the community foundations for projects to advance gender equality. Community foundations will be encouraged to provide matched funding dollars to the investment already made by WAGE and activate fund development approaches that lean into feminist frameworks and principles.

The Project will also address gender equality at the institutional level. Community foundations will be encouraged to make a public commitment to gender equality, create programming that involves gender equality (e.g. hosting a Vital Conversation on Gender Equality) and review their internal policies and procedures (e.g. hiring practices) to prioritize gender equality.

Key outcomes of the Project will include increased funding to women’s organizations, increased capacity for equality-seeking organizations, and increased action to advance equality between women and men in the economic, social and democratic life of Canada.

The first and second supplemental funding will be used to expand the reach of the project to distribute additional funding to eligible organizations and to further support project activities.

This 55-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: needs assessment, development and implementation of strategic plans, collaboration and networking, and enhancing organizational financial health.

The additional funds will be used to strengthen capacity in human resources management, strategic plan implementation, community engagement, partnership development, and funding source diversification. This will be achieved through the development and implementation of program manuals; improved organizational policies, procedures, and recruitment strategies; strategic and community outreach action plans; and a fundraising business model.

This 54-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Native Child and Family Services of Toronto to improve its service to Indigenous women and families in Toronto. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the assessment of the current staff training program and procedures followed by a large-scale redesign of a culturally appropriate and effective training program.

The 2023 supplemental funding will be used to revitalize the advocacy and branding initiatives inside the organization to better attract Indigenous candidates and ultimately better address the needs of the Indigenous community they serve, as well as develop and implement a human resources strategy and tools. These activities will continue to grow organizational capacity by incorporating Indigenous women’s perspectives in NCFST’s policies and programs.