Grants and Contributions

Through this 19-month project, Actions Femmes ÎPÉ (AFIPE) will build its capacity to advance women's equality. To achieve this, the organization will finalize its restructuring and optimize its current resources. The project will include improving AFIPE’s internal documentation, website, and digital tools as well as developing contingency and transition plans. AFIPE will also implement a communications and advocacy strategy and analyze its current strategic and business plans with the goal of renewing them, incorporating the current needs of Francophone and Acadian women in Prince Edward Island.

Through this 19-month project, Armagh will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address their changing needs as a growing organization – both in terms of strategy and delivery. The project will begin by researching barriers to equality in the gender-based violence section in the Region of Peel and developing a corresponding strategic plan for the organization. In order to deliver on the plan, the organization will review and update their financial management and human resource practices, and examine their programs and services through a GBA+ lens.

Through this 31-month systemic change project, the Black Screen Office will help advance Black women's representation in leadership and decision-making roles in the screen industry. Specifically, the project will address the systemic racism and sexism they face when trying to advance in the screen industry. To do this, the Black Screen Office will provide anti-racism training to employers, leaders, and institutions in the industry to educate them on the discriminatory impacts of current policies and practices. The organization will conduct focus groups with women and collaborate with employers to develop and implement an anti-Black racism framework and accountability system to conduct policy transformation in the industry. A mentorship program will also be offered to support women’s skills development and advancement. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project

Through this 20-month project, the Réseau des Femmes d’affaires du Québec (RFAQ) will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. It will modernize the organization’s digital tools. The project will include developing, deploying, and improving a detailed analytics dashboard and an enhanced client relations system. These tools will help the RFAQ monitor and manage its results in real time to support strategic decision making as well as optimize management and communication with a range of clients. The project will help boost the organization’s effectiveness and impact by providing a digital space that promotes businesswomen’s development and engagement.

Through this 20-month project, South Okanagan Women in Need Society will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address capacity gaps to expand and improve best practices in service delivery and governance. The project will include implementing a tactical plan, updating organization’s policies and procedures, training staff in new systems and processes, and creating and developing an asset management system.

Through this 20-month project, Archway Society for Domestic Peace will build its capacity advance gender equality. It will address gaps in organizational efficacy, sustainability, and inclusivity to foster a healthy and positive organizational culture that values teamwork, creativity, and a commitment to the feminist cause. The project will include assessing the effectiveness of the leadership team, implementing an evaluation process of the organization’s core values, developing human resource strategies and a training plan that reflect an intersectional feminist perspective.

Through this 20 -month project, Women That Give will build its capacity to advance gender equality by addressing the needs of racialized and marginalized women who have been affected by GBV directly or indirectly. They will do this by engaging women with lived experience to identify programming gaps and needs, and then developing a fundraising plan that responds to these needs - to support the organization in obtaining the resources required to provide the services and opportunities for the women in their community.

Through this 20-month project, Association for the Alberta Network of Immigrant Women (ANIW) will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the empowerment of immigrant women to address gender equality issues within the objectives and activities of the projects that ANIW delivers.

The project will include convening the board of directors to enhance expertise on technology and fund development, collecting data to create and use an organizational database to identify gaps, improving board governance, specifically by developing and implementing a strategic plan for sustainability, and conducting workshops and staff training on GBA+ and Key Performance Indicators.

Through this 20-month project, YWCA Moncton will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address outdated finance management processes, tackle the critical need to diversify revenue, and embed evaluation within all areas of service and program provision. It will also ensure that all relevant stakeholders’ contributions are included. The project will include the implementation of finance process improvements to support expansion and development, IT enhancements, and the adoption of a Results Based Management framework, which will better equip YWCA Moncton to sustain and expand services to accurately respond to growing community needs.

Through this 20-month project, The Period Purse will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the gap in research of who experiences period poverty and how period poverty presents in communities experiencing period poverty; identify needs and trends in period poverty across youth demographics; and identify the barriers and limitations to creating period-positive spaces while generating productive conversations around menstrual equity with various decision makers and policy developers. The project will include the development of an advocacy strategy and toolkit informed by people with lived experience; strengthening community engagement strategies; and delivering training on advocacy and engagement strategies to equip staff, volunteers, and the Board of Directors to advance system change for menstrual equity.