Grants and Contributions

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.

Through this 19-month project, the Centre de femmes Le point d’ancrage will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. It will address how the organization develops plans, makes decisions, and manages people. The project will include developing guides and policies, a human resources strategy, and a strategic plan as well as creating intervention tools. Lastly, the project will enable the implementation of a digital transition by supporting the management and organization of paper and digital records.

Through this 19-month project, the Sexual Assault Crisis Centre of Essex County will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need to create a local inventory of opportunities and programs with clear pathways to address women’s and girl’s needs beyond violence. The project will work with experts to design a toolkit framework on wrap around services that is informed by research and local engagement with stakeholders. It will include scripts for engaging potential partners, tools, templates and resources and will subsequently be piloted with select local organizations to provide input into the toolkit.

Through this 19-month systemic change project, Fora: Network for Change will scale the reach and impact of the Rise on Boards project, to advance the representation of young women in pivotal leadership and decision-making roles. The scale out of Rise on Boards will introduce this project to French-speaking official language minority communities and extend to new locations across Canada. To do so, the project will undertake in-depth original research, influential thought leadership, forge strategic partnerships with provincial and federal non-profit networks and organize board equality events and workshops. The board equality resources will be adopted into existing non-profit hubs, ensuring a sustained impact on leadership diversity, increasing young women’s representation as leaders and decision-makers, and the realization of youth gender equality across Canada.

Throughout this 19-month project, Compass Early Learning and Care (CELC) will scale “Empowering Newcomer Women: Building Bright Futures in Early Childhood Education” to advance women’s economic security and prosperity by supporting viable career paths for newcomer and low-income women, and 2SLGBTQI+ communities working as Early Childcare Educators (ECE's) in centre-based childcare, through systemic change. It will scale the project intersectionally –through engaging with key stakeholders who engage with equity deserving groups, such as newcomer and low-income women, and 2SLGBTQI+ in communities.

Specifically, it will address barriers that inhibit low-income and newcomer women, nonbinary, and trans people from engaging in full and meaningful labour market participation as ECE's.

To do so, the project will (1) develop hiring and onboarding practices of centre based child care educators through policies and organizational diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI), (2) engage working groups and partners, including municipalities and child care communities, and DEI committees located in Durham and Peterborough to gather information about the intersectionality of the scaled up population; (3) develop resources to identify barriers to education and employment of scaled group of equity deserving ECE’s and incorporate intersectionality; (4) review existing CELC policies, procedures and practices to scale the previously developed practices from the closed project on assessing assumptions and create equitable one and (5) develop sustainability plan to remove barriers and increase stability for ECE's.

Through this 31-month systemic change project, The Association of CBDCs of NB will help advance representation in leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers faced by entrepreneurial women by conducting research and analysis on progress and barriers, creating a Provincial Collaborative Leadership Group, and by organizing an entrepreneurial innovation summit to mobilize the women's entrepreneurship ecosystem. The project will foster an inclusive environment where women entrepreneurs can thrive, ensuring their contributions are recognized and amplified across the province. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 24-month systemic change project, Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within Toronto’s labour market by hosting a series of roundtable group discussions to identify intersectional barriers to economic security; developing a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy focused on improving the outcomes of racialized and newcomer women and the 2SLGBTQI+ community; developing a DEI Employer Toolkit to outreach to employers; launching an Employer Outreach campaign to increase awareness of the benefits of building a diverse workforce; and hosting a Job Fair at the end of the project to connect underrepresented job seekers to employers from a range of industries. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project

Through this 31-month project, OCTEVAW will help advance representation in leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within municipal policies and practices by piloting a mentorship program to support Black, Indigenous and Racialized women to fully participate in policy change initiatives that advance gender equity for racialized survivors of gender-based violence. This will be done by building the capacity of Black, Indigenous and Racialized GBV advocates through mentorship; hosting an annual convening “GBV Policy Symposium” and creating cross- cultural partnerships to create new policies and practices at the municipal level that advance gender equity for racialized survivors. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 19-month project, the Centre-femmes Catherine-Leblond will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. It will review the organization’s current way of operating and develop more inclusive practices. The project will include an organizational diagnosis; specialized training on matters of inclusion; and the introduction of a best practices implementation plan, which will be assessed as work progresses. Finally, the project will include preparing a summary report with recommendations.

Through this 25-month systemic change project, the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration (MRCSSI) will help advance Muslim women’s representation in leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change.

Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within social services, health care and education by working with 24 Muslim women and girls of diverse identities and lived experience to co-create racial-trauma informed safety and equity audit tools and resources for each sector and to develop and pilot interactive training modules addressing lived realities of gendered Islamophobia so that harm is reduced for Muslim women and girls and practices and policies are strengthened.

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