Grants and Contributions

Through this 19-month systemic change project, the YWCA Montréal will scale the Action on Equality in Colleges project to advance women’s and girls’ economic security and prosperity. The organization will scale the project by expanding its scope to other post-secondary institutions, including vocational schools. The project will address all forms of gender-based violence, such as harassment, gender stereotypes, and gender discrimination in post-secondary institutions. To achieve this, the project will deepen understandings of the challenges faced by women in the target communities, develop specialized tools and practices to promote gender-based violence prevention, and support communities in changing their policies and practices to create sustainable change.

Through this 32-month project, the Groupe Femmes, Politique et Démocratie will help advance women’s access to leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change. In particular, the project will help identify systemic barriers that women face in politics by developing a toolkit to support women. This project will also develop recommendations for decision-makers to remove the systemic barrier of violence in all its forms and at all stages of political life. This will also make organizations accountable for ensuring women can access elected offices while preserving their physical, psychological, and moral integrity. An external evaluation team will assess the project’s impact on systemic change.

Through this 19-month project, Women Speak up will build its capacity to empower women and to advance gender equality. It will address both strategy and delivery to be an effective contributor to the network of women's organizations in Ottawa and Toronto, and to the women's movement in Canada. The project will: 1) improve organizational governance; 2) develop tools and practices to increase financial sustainability; 3) advance organizational HR through recruitment, recognition, building team culture, and training; 4) develop a strategic plan and the organizational capacity to deliver it (project management, performance measurement, IT, DEI, GBA+); and 5) engage with their community to better understand its needs and to better position Women Speak Up to help meet those needs.

Through this 20-month systemic change project, Women Entrepreneurs of SK Inc (WESK) will scale their SK Women Entrepreneurship Charter Project to advance women’s economic security. It will scale to grow charter signatories across the province with a focus on crown corporations, municipalities and post-secondary institutions and large private corporations. It will address women’s economic security and prosperity by working to create equitable procurement by eliminating barriers, shifting perceptions, and establishing diversity targets. To do so, the project will develop resources and supports for charter signatories to utilize to champion systemic change, facilitate an environment that brings together suppliers and buyers to build connections and relationships and work to promote the project on a larger scale and across industries. WESK will evaluate the success of the project through yearly bench marking surveys to participants and compile data yearly to determine progress is being made.

Through this 24-month systemic change project, the Saint John Learning Exchange will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within policies and practices that impact women and gender diverse individuals living in poverty by using Community-Based Participatory Action Research methods to create opportunities for women with lived experience to generate knowledge and take action to change unjust systems, policies, and practices that impact their lives. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 19-month project, Girls Inc of Northern Alberta will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address organizational sustainability through fund development and management related human resource development, governance enhancement and strategic planning. To do so the organization will identify learning opportunities and then adapting those learnings to create an in-house training manual. They will also hire a consultant to support reviewing and assessing board governance, board policies and strategic planning through a GBA+ framework that will build the organization’s operational capacity in advancing gender equality.

Through this 19-month project, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Center (DEWC) will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address technology-based risks, gaps, and barriers to growth. The project will include a technology asset audit, a needs assessment, research into technology-based solutions for organizational pain points, a prioritized plan for implementation, staff training, and evaluation.

Through this 19-month systemic change project, Services intégrés pour l’emploi will top-up an initial Enterprise égalitaire certification project to advance women’s economic security and prosperity. The initial project, which focused on the Arthabaska RCM, will be extended to the Bécancour, Nicolet-Yamaska and L’Érable RCMs. It will address systemic barriers faced by women in non-traditional fields or seeking employment in male-dominated sectors. To that end, the project will raise awareness among businesses and assist them through, among other things, policy reviews and training, so they can obtain the Entreprise égalitaire certification recognizing that they apply values of equality between men and women, fight harassment, welcome their employees in an inclusive manner and provide ergonomic workstations. In addition, Services intégrés pour l’emploi will highlight businesses that are making efforts to better welcome and integrate women.

Through this 20-month project, Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need to bolster culturally safe, trauma-informed and anti-oppressive services available to members of historically underserved populations who have experienced sexual and/or gender-based violence in the Ottawa region. Specifically, the project will include (1) conducting a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) audit of ORCC; (2) developing an ORCC-specific DEI toolkit; (3) operationalizing the DEI toolkit recommendations; and (4) monitoring, evaluating and learning from the project implementation.

Through this 25-month systemic change project, CultureLink Settlement and Community Services will help advance women’s representation in leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within the Toronto District School Board (TDSB): by 1) identifying barriers for immigrant mothers to influence decision-making policies and/or practices at the TDSB using a gender-based analysis; 2) identifying actionable recommendations to remove those barriers; 3) developing and implementing a community mobilization strategy; 4) advocating for the adoption of policy and/or practice recommendations at the TDSB; and 5) disseminating project learnings through filming and documentation. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.