Grants and Contributions

Through this 29-month project, Voulez-Vous Productions will strengthen the capacity and networks of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations to promote equality for 2SLGBTQI+ people. It will address inclusion, accessibility, and representation for queer and gender nonconforming women artists within the Quebec and Canadian cultural landscapes. The project will include developing and consolidating anti-oppressive human resources management policies; developing partnerships; organizing a conference on issues relating to inclusivity, access, and representation; and creating a pool of diversity, equity, and inclusion consultants for issues of inclusion, accessibility, and representation for queer and gender nonconforming women artists.

Through this 17-month project, Centre33 will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality by attaining not-for-profit incorporation. It will address a lack of formalized local supports and advocacy for the 2SLGBTQI+ community and its constituent members. The project will include establishing a Board of Directors, applying for and achieving not-for-profit incorporation status, engaging with the with diverse 2SLGBTQI+ communities to learn about challenges and barriers faced by them, and developing and disseminating a learning tool.

Through this 29-month project, Espace LGBTQ+ will strengthen the capacity and networks of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. The project will focus on defining the organization’s strategic vision for the next years, inclusion for marginalized LGBTQ+ communities, and optimizing the organization’s communication tools and financial resources. The project will include developing a strategic plan, a communications strategy, and a philanthropic strategy to better meet the needs expressed by Espace LGBTQ+ member organizations while fostering connections, sharing, and dialogue among these organizations.

Through this 30-month project, the Maison pour femmes immigrantes (MFI) will conduct research that will help improve gender-based violence services for at-risk groups. The MFI will address collaborative practices between shelters and youth protection services so that services better meet the needs of immigrants, refugees, and newcomer mothers who are survivors of domestic violence and whose children have been reported to youth protection services. To achieve this goal, the project will include a literature review, followed by data collection through interviews and focus groups. The data will be analyzed, and a response and knowledge mobilization tool will be developed and shared. The MFI will organize days for reflection and action to inform others about the research findings.

This research is in line with the theoretical and methodological approach of participatory action research, which centres the subjects in knowledge production and action on the issues that affect them. Accordingly, a group of co-researchers consisting of immigrant women who have survived domestic violence and academics will be established to guide the research process. The research will also engage with shelter and youth protection workers through an advisory committee. Engagement with mothers and workers in the sector will only begin once the project has received ethics approval.

Through this 17-month project, ADF Toustes will strengthen the capacity and networks of 2SLGBTQI+ organizations to promote equality for 2SLGBTQI+ people, particularly trans and non-binary people in Rimouski. The project will help mitigate the specific barriers faced by 2SLGBTQI+ communities in the region. Funding will serve to incorporate the organization, draft internal governance documents, establish the organization’s strategic plan, create communications initiatives with the relevant communities, organize training sessions, develop networking tools, plan fundraising events, and formulate a strategy for assessing financial sustainability.

Through this 29-month project, Diversity Ed. – Safer Spaces will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality, equity and inclusion in rural, remote and small urban centres. It will address the need for safer spaces for 2SLGBTQI+ people, their families, friends, and allies. The project will include establishing organizational priorities as identified in a community needs assessment, developing a strategic plan, developing new organizational plans, policies and procedures, improving Board governance by developing a Handbook, improving informed decision making through the development of standardized program management and evaluation tools, and strengthening networks and partnerships with other rural and remote community organizations.

Through this 29-month project, Ontario Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN) will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. It will address digital inequities among 2SLGBTQI+ communities. The project will include developing and implementing a strategic plan; consulting with the community to assess needs and gaps in ODLAN services; updating ODLAN’s communications strategy; creating an advocacy strategy; revising ODLAN’s fundraising strategy; and renewing ODLAN’s evaluation strategy.

Through this 30-month project, Thrive Counselling will scale an integrated service hub model for intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and human tracking survivors, to strengthen the GBV sector in Halton, Ontario. It will scale this service model which has shown to be successful delivering services that protect and empower survivors, including women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people experiencing violence in Peel and Waterloo in southern Ontario, as well as numerous locations across North America.

To do so, the project will engage with stakeholders, identify delivery partners, adjust the model to address the intersectional needs of the diverse communities it will serve, develop integrated service hub sites, establish integrated services for victims and survivors, and evaluate the service hub. Thrive Counselling will document learning and make it available in their website, social media, and webinars, to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

The supplemental funding will be used to increase knowledge mobilization by hosting an information sharing event on the best practices related to GBV hub models.

Through this 29-month project, Avalon Sexual Assault Centre Society will develop and put in place a Legal Pathways and System Navigation Model to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the lack of available resources and tools to gain support for legal processes that lead survivors to unfair advantages, time consuming and strenuous experiences in search of justice. To do so, the project will develop and implement a community centered model for organizations and their clients for legal support and guidance pertaining to sexualized and gender-based violence, and to cooperate and advocate on a large scale for advancement towards systemic change. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. Avalon Sexual Assault Centre Society will participate in community events to increase visibility of the project and share lessons learned from the promising practice in order to share information with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 17-month project, Chroma will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. It will address the organization’s revenue management and fundraising needs, policy updates, programming impact assessment, and board governance, while involving the community through a GBA Plus lens. The project will include conducting a policy review to center accessibility and inclusion, assessing programming, and transitioning to a new governance model.

The extension in time and additional funds will allow the organization to continue to increase its effectiveness in revenue management, gather feedback on their outreach programs and advocacy activities, and identify best practices to transition to a governance board model. Lastly, it will allow them to develop relationships through in-person meetings and events.