Grants and Contributions

This 38-month project aims to ensure full participation in economic life for women who are part-time entrepreneurs (flexipreneurs), and to help them improve their economic security and prosperity, by trialling a new approach to financing and support that is tailored to their needs in order to assist them in starting up, sustaining, and growing their businesses.

To achieve this, SADC Shawinigan plans to engage partners and establish an implementation committee; develop a plan on assessment measures and data collection; establish and execute a trial project in several Quebec regions for a flexi-loan tailored to women flexipreneurs needs, with flexible conditions and a streamlined assessment process; introduce support services and specialized workshops for women flexipreneurs; and share results and lessons learned.

A three-month extension will allow for continued support and training for flexipreneurs, as well as the promotion of flexiprêt services. It will also serve to mobilize potential partners to sustain and scale up the project.

Through this 35-month project, the New Brunswick Pay Equity Coalition will address systemic barriers faced by women in female-dominated private sector jobs, such as community care and child care, to accelerate systemic change and strengthen women’s economic security and prosperity in New Brunswick. To achieve this, the organization will conduct an analysis of systemic barriers and solutions, support the engagement of partners and workers in promoting policies and practices for decent jobs, and participate in public dialogue to educate decision makers and influence change.

The project will bring together workers, academics, associations, organizations and unions to identify systemic barriers in the private sector and propose policies to address them, such as pay equity, pay transparency, and public investment. The Coalition will also seek support from organizations representing marginalized subgroups, such as gender minorities and racialized women, to ensure greater understanding of intersectionality and better integration of gender-based analysis plus into project activities and actions.

The additional time and funds will be used to establish a committee of experts to advise on the elements needed for good legislation, adapt a business case to inform private entrepreneurs, and produce tools in both official languages to promote pay equity and pay transparency legislation.

Through this 18-month project the Enchanté Network will equip 2SLGBTQI+ organizations with knowledge, tools and support to intersectionalize their organizations while enhancing cross-sector collaborations between 2SLGBTQI+ organizations and other equity-seeking organizations throughout Canada. In this way, it will expand and innovate the reach and impact of progressive organizations and movements on a national scale.

This objective will be achieved through research, a podcast, a national summit, and the development of two toolkits: one outlining concrete approaches to internally intersectionalize 2SLGBTQI+ organizations, and the other outlining strategies for building sustainable and productive cross-sectoral relationships between 2SLGBQTI+ organizations and other equity-seeking organizations in Canada.

Through this 27-month project Tyendinaga Native Women’s Association (TNWA) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. This will be achieved by incorporating the organization; strengthening its operational and administrative processes; solidifying its partnership with the Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA); and drafting a Strategic Plan that will guide its governing body and strengthen the organization’s internal capacity.

This project will engage the Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA) to provide guidance on the incorporation and capacity-building processes and to facilitate knowledge-sharing on GBV risk assessment and corresponding responses. By the end of the project, Tyendinaga Native Women’s Association will have strengthened its capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.

Through this 15-month project, Elevate Equity will develop community-informed initiatives to overcome key issues facing LGBTQ2 communities, with a focus on BIPOC trans and nonbinary communities in the Greater Toronto Area. This will be achieved by delivering a series of leadership retreats for racialized trans and nonbinary leaders and developing a digital tool to provide organizational supports for trans and nonbinary BIPOC serving organizations. Project evaluation will be ongoing through project activities, and feedback implemented throughout to ensure it meets community needs

By the end of this project, Elevate Equity will have supported a community-informed project to address key issues facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities and advance equality for 2SLGBTQ+ people, with a focus on Black, Indigenous trans and nonbinary young people of colour.

Through this 14-month project, CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks will increase its ability to prevent or address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA+ people by challenging assumptions, centering 2SLGBTQI+ stories and perspectives, and celebrating their contributions through documenting the ways they challenged the status quo and demanded an HIV response for Indigenous communities across Canada.

This will be achieved through the collaboration of a 2SLGBTQI+ advisory committee and elders/knowledge keepers with a film production team to co-create a documentary on these topics. The development of a community-screening facilitators’ guide and the hosting of community screening events across the country will help support inclusive engagement efforts, lead conversations, and generate awareness on the 2SLGBTQI+ contribution to Indigenous wellbeing, including by creating access to HIV prevention education, testing, and treatment. Historical, archival, educational, and celebratory, this project is truly for, with, by, and about 2SLGBTQ+ Indigenous people.

At the end of the project, and the impact evaluation report will be produced to assess the awareness-raising of the film screening participants.

As part of this 14-month project, Montréal Pride will develop solutions informed by the 2SLGBTQI+ community to address the main barriers and gaps facing its members. More specifically, the project will contribute to advancing equality for 2SLGBTQI+ people by creating an audio program and awareness-raising content to highlight the struggles, stories, advocacy, and solutions of LGBTQ2+ people living outside urban areas and those who are members of the trans, racialized, Indigenous, Two-Spirit, elderly, low-income, and disabled communities.

Measures that will be taken to achieve this goal include identifying the needs of 2SLGBTQI+ communities located outside of urban centres and defining a strategy for appropriate content; defining the applicable committee procedures and rules for the various working and monitoring groups under the project; developing the visual identity for the audio program and promoting it; and finally, recording, producing, and broadcasting awareness-raising content.

Through this 15-month project, Alter Acadie NB will develop community-informed solutions to address the main barriers and gaps faced by 2SLGBTQI+ communities. Actions that will be taken to achieve this include collaborating with regional partners to hold information, awareness-raising, and discussion sessions in order to initiate systemic change that will promote inclusion for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.

In addition, the organization will learn more about existing resources in the province through meetings, research, and consultations. It will also enhance its ability to assist 2SLGBTQIA+ people in order to improve access to resources and help them browse services using a one-stop online portal.

Through this 14-month project, JusticeTrans will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing by 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be achieved by identifying, documenting, and tracking anti-trans organizing in Canada, and developing safety solution to address it.

JusticeTrans will conduct in-depth consultations and a pan-Canadian environmental scan in collaboration with women’s organizations and Two-Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming (2STNBGN) advocates and service providers, including health and mental health providers, and school boards targeted by anti-trans violence. Anti-hate research training will be provided to its research team, which will be made available to researchers and scholars. Based on the needs identified and the data collected on anti-trans organizing efforts, the organization will create resources to safely respond to anti-trans hate and lobbying, in collaboration with key partners from 2SLGBTQI+ communities. Educational events will be held in Ottawa, Regina, and Halifax to raise awareness on these issues and provide safe spaces to 2STNBGN organizations and individuals to share their stories and experiences.

Within this project, JusticeTrans will work with decision makers as part of its advocacy strategy to protect the rights of trans people in Canada, to improve the understanding of organized anti-trans hate, to increase empathy toward 2STNBGN people, and to build support from allies. Thus, the project will contribute to changing cultural norms and behaviours and to encourage decision-makers to implement new policy and practices. At the end of the project, JusticeTrans will submit an advocacy strategy, a sustainability plan, and an evaluation plan and disseminate its results on communication platforms and in academic journals.

Through this 21 month project, Red Deer Native Friendship Society will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. This will be achieved by developing a community engagement strategy, developing relationships with stakeholders and Two-Spirit Elders and knowledge keepers, conducting a needs assessment, and using their findings to adapt their approaches, mandates, and governance structures and develop and implement culturally safe training for volunteers and employees.

This project will engage with the Central Alberta Pride Society, the Trans and Non-Binary Aid Society, Urban Aboriginal Voices Society, and the Edmonton 2 Spirit Society to ensure they have good representation from the various communities for their community consultations.

By the end of the project, the Red Deer Native Friendship Society will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.