Grants and Contributions

This 20-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: coordination and support of commemoration initiatives, including women-centric educational programming, and the establishment of supports for homelessness and addiction; as well as the development of legacy programming focused on empowerment of First Nations women and girls.

This 20-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: coordination and support of commemoration initiatives including Women’s Memorial March and Feast; creation of community legacy monument; and the development of legacy programming.

This 13-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: coordination and support of commemoration initiatives, including the creation and raising of a memorial totem pole; healing circle and sweat lodge ceremonies; as well as various workshops to address trauma and abuse for Indigenous women.

This 14-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: the creation of a community monument.

This 3-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 include: the coordination of family support groups as well as a healing through traditional sewing workshops.

This 11-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 working with families, survivors or their community to develop and implement commemoration initiatives to honor the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S from their Nations. This project will take place in 6 northern shelters.

This 20-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: working with those affected to support their grieving process and promote healing through the coordination for four healing circles and in Regina, Saskatoon, Prince Albert, and Ile-a-la-Cross . In addition each community hopes to establish a commemoration wall.

This 8-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 coordination of a welcome home ceremony that will involve an honouring, remembering, and healing ceremony, workshops on Métis culture, violence prevention, safety and a community feast.

This 44-month project will support Pauktuutit to co-develop, with Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s National Inuit Youth Council, a national dialogue and action plan on gender equality. Young people from across the four Inuit Nunangat regions and urban areas will come together with Pauktuutit staff and youth board members through virtual and face-to-face discussions, with themes, trends and ideas captured to shape the creation of appropriate communications and outreach strategies. A range of activities will be considered, from organizing web-based events, to the creation of an electronic platform or online training and mentoring to build the capacity and confidence of Inuit youth to be able to advocate for gender equality. Support activities will include building skills for gender-based analysis plus to create understanding of intersectionality and empower youth to identify and respond to gender equality barriers and negative gender norms in their communities. The website, tools and other resources created through the project will be publically launched.

This 48-month project will address organization capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic changes towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: human resources management, board governance, strategic planning and diversification of the organizations's funding sources.