Grants and Contributions

Through this 19-month project, Bethesda House will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need for enhanced financial management skills, continuous learning, and performance evaluation and assessment. The project will include financial skills development opportunities for staff, training on project management and operational skills, and the monitoring and assessment of organizational activities to cultivate a culture of results-driven management.

Through this 19-month project, Endless Possibilities and Hope Development Organization (EP) will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need for organizational resiliency and sustainability following the devasting effects of Covid19 that exponentially increased the need for services at the time when it was, and still is, needed the most. The project will develop a 2/5/10-year strategic plan that will be informed by an organizational assessment, a review of internal and external documentation, a review and update of organizational metrics, and a mid-project assessment. This work will further inform the development or improvement of policies and procedures; including a partnership and engagement strategy, HR policies and procedures, financial sustainability plan and list of potential funding resources.

Through this 19-month project, DisAbled Women’s Network Canada (DAWN) will build its capacity to advance gender equality in Canada. It will strengthen DAWN’s ability to drive systemic change by ensuring the continuity and sustainability of its mandate while enhancing its financial management processes, increasing its membership, updating its core feminist disability guide, and deepening its expertise on key policy and human rights areas, specifically to address the needs of women, girls and gender-diverse people with disability. Key activities include conducting an organizational needs assessment and developing and implementing an action plan; conducting an audit of the financial reporting and budget management processes and identifying improvement to be implemented; developing and implementing a strategic recruitment plan; elaborating and disseminating DAWN’s core feminist disability guide; and updating its research on lived experiences and rights of women, girls and gender-diverse individuals with disabilities.

Through this 19-month project, Women Focus Canada Inc. will aim to significantly advance its organizational capacity to support gender equality and poverty reduction.

By allocating resources to hire experienced consultants, Women Focus Canada Inc. will build a confident team capable of expanding service delivery and pursuing sustainable funding. Through targeted capacity-building exercises, Women Focus Canada Inc. plans to enhance its operational efficiency, increase program offerings, and foster knowledge sharing among partners. This strategic enhancement in service delivery is expected to broaden community impact by addressing local issues collaboratively. Key activities include assessment of governance, leadership development, recruitment, training, policy development to be measured by specific performance measurement methods. The project will aim to develop a funding strategy and expand its partnership network, integrate technology to improve operational efficiency and measure impact through internal evaluation.

Through this 19-month project, the Association Femmes Africaines Francophones will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. Funding will allow the organization to equip itself with the tools needed to create, stabilize, and strengthen a healthy, inclusive, and equitable work environment. The Association Femmes Africaines Francophones will strengthen its governance by establishing by-laws and policies. Various training programs will help provide a better understanding of managing a non-profit organization and better meet the needs of the African Francophone women’s community. The project will include structuring the accountability framework and mobilizing resources. The project will also include improving the organization’s digital capacity; evaluating and outlining the development of policies, toolkits, and guides; and creating a strategic plan.

Through this 19-month project, True North Society will build its capacity to advance gender equality by addressing the increasingly acute and complex needs related to family violence. True North is uniquely positioned to grow their services to create a continuum of care that will address unmet needs along a spectrum and optimize their capacity to effectively prevent and address family violence. This project will involve conducting a needs assessment, engaging in operational, resource development and communications strategic planning, as well as enhancing organizational capacity in the areas of board governance, human resources and partnership and program development. By the project’s conclusion, the organization will have significantly improved its ability to provide comprehensive, sustainable, and scalable support to women and children experiencing family violence in the Rockyview, Wheatland, Kneehill, and Vulcan Counties, ensuring a more effective and coordinated response to these critical issues.

Through this 19-month project, the CALACS francophone d'Ottawa will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need to update and deepen the intersectional feminist analysis that guides some of the organization's core foundations. The project will include identifying gaps and issues that need to be updated according to an intersectional feminist approach specific to the CALACS; developing the tools and acquiring the feminist knowledge needed to update the organization's practices, policies and tools; and updating, implementing and evaluating these practices, policies and tools according to the intersectional feminist approach that was developed.

This 19-month project will support Girls Forward Foundation’s capacity-building in order to advance gender equality. This will allow the organization to further impact thousands of girls across Canada, empowering them through sport, physical activity, and education while providing support and resources to grassroots organizations. This project will focus on the organization's delivery, impact, advocacy, branding and sustainability as a national charity. Key activities will include hiring consultants and experts in the sector to support with governance, fundraising, marketing, and HR policies, strategies and processes; investing in staff training, professional development, and benefits; and bringing in new team members to support the operations growth.

Through this 19-month project, Safehope Home will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need to 1) better align services for survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the Greater Toronto Area and 2) diversify funding sources to enable Safehope Home to deliver supports and services to women survivors when in crisis. The project will include the development of a comprehensive plan to build an emergency shelter and detox facility as well as the creation of a fund development plan.

Through this 31-month project, Elizabeth Fry New Brunswick (EFNB) will help advance women’s economic and leadership opportunities through systemic change. This project will increase leadership opportunities for women from underrepresented backgrounds, implement consensus-building measures that better account for the unique needs of those who face intersecting discrimination and oppression that reproduce structural inequities, create a systematic space for all voices to be heard and have influence, and generate a model for nonprofits to move away from patriarchal structures of governance to systematically make space for Indigenous and other ways of knowing. They will collaborate with other community non-profit organizations to develop new and updated approaches that support more equitable and inclusive practices to decision making and distribution of power.

An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of this systemic change project.