Grants and Contributions

This project will reduce barriers to access to services for women in northern, rural and remote communities through mobile service delivery and increased partnerships between service providers.

This project will develop and test the provision of trauma-and survivor-informed, feminist, intersectional, and anti-oppressive services to LGBTQ2 and gender non-conforming survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), as well as youth and Indigenous women within this group.

The RadGen Live Event will bring together 1000+ university and high school students, faculty and entrepreneurs from across Ontario to showcase SheEO women-led Ventures and entrepreneurs so that young women and non-binary youth will have increased access to support connections for employment, learning, skills development, inspiration and encouragement, including opportunities for mentorship, role models, and ongoing learning platforms and networks.

This project will test and enhance a model of support designed to address various complex needs of women who want to leave the sex industry.

This 36-month project will develop a new, contemporary five-year feminist strategic litigation plan (FSL plan) that will enable feminists and gender equality advocates to address systemic gender discrimination more effectively. To do so, it will start by assessing the effectiveness of LEAF’s own past feminist strategic litigation over the last thirty operational years. It will undertake a needs assessment with feminist groups and other key stakeholders to identify intersectional gender equality issues that can be effectively addressed through feminist strategic litigation. The results of both assessments will be used to inform the development of the new 5-year FSL Plan which will be pilot tested with three test cases and broadly disseminated.

This 5-month project will capture promising practices, key policy areas and prevention plans in collaboration with community stakeholders from across Canada. It will build on the crucial work already being done on campuses to address sexual violence by students, faculty and administration while expanding the scope to include gender-based violence with a focus on ensuring those most impacted by gender-based violence including, but not limited to, Indigenous Peoples, sex workers, trans and gender non-binary individuals, newcomers, people with disabilities, LGBTQ2S community members are centered in the framework.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to test and adapt the evidence-informed program “Beyond Violence” to the lived experience of young women (under the age of 30) and First Nations women who are incarcerated and have experienced polyvictimization.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to test and evaluate the promising practice of shaping Métis specific services for those impacted by gender-based violence by engaging Métis survivors of gender-based violence to influence change to the services they need.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to develop and test a gender affirming inclusion process for LGBTQ2 communities and gender-non-binary survivors of gender-based violence to close the gaps in service provision for this underserved community.

This 36-month project will improve to employment and the labour market for vulnerable and marginalized women. Through participatory research and the application of a gender-based analysis framework (GBA+), the project will increase understanding of the systemic barriers that vulnerable and marginalized women face. Successful wrap-around programs to access labour markets will be identified and promising practices will be implemented nationally, through 20 member associations. The project will engage the public, private and civil society sectors in effectively implementing actions and changing practices that inhibit the economic empowerment and participation of vulnerable and marginalized women.