Grants and Contributions

This 45-month project is a joint funding initiative that will engage Indigenous and other Northern women and relevant partners, along with those who identify as women. This project will facilitate pathways for women to advance in various political leadership roles, including through inclusive spaces in the Campaign School. This will be achieved by updating the current Campaign School curriculum in a user-friendly format using a Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) lens and adapting it for online delivery as well as developing strategies to implement campaign schools in 10 additional communities across the Northwest Territories (NWT). It will also be accomplished by engaging men, boys, and communities to support women who run for office and developing partnerships to support women’s leadership initiatives.

This 31-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Abuse Hurts will achieve this by developing and implementing community-based approaches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women, developing and implementing prevention focused initiatives to combat gender based violence and building relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality.
At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, advancing inclusive policies and practices and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

This 30-month project will develop and implement best practices and resources created by the Ontario’s education sectors to scale up across Canada and in Ontario’s Catholic system to address the root causes of gender-based violence. White Ribbon will achieve this by increasing collaboration within the educational sectors and community partners to utilize Ontario’s education sectors best practices and change harmful gender norms, attitudes, and behaviours. Working across Canada, White Ribbon will advance gender equality for vulnerable female youth, Indigenous, racialized, and 2SLGBTQ+ folks who experienced sexual exploitation within the pandemic through creating systemic change.
At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.
Through this project, White Ribbon will scale up what Ontario’s education sector has achieved in terms of best practices in the Ontario’s Catholic system and other Canadian education sectors. To scale up, they will build on Ontario’s lessons learned and adapt the training/classroom resources for use in New Brunswick, Quebec, British Colombia and Yukon ensuring they meet each province/territory's curriculum requirements. They will increase networking, accelerate change and ensure a consistent prevention approach to sexual exploitation of youth who are at high risk within COVID-19. Administrators, School Boards, Principals, Unions, and Educators will embrace their responsibility in ending sexual exploitation. In the classrooms, competent trained teachers will use the prepared lesson plans to change harmful gender norms and attitudes and prevent further harm by empowering youth with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Grande Prairie Women's Residence Association will achieve this by engaging, educating, training and raising awareness on family and gender-based violence. Community partners and community at large will play a valuable role by supporting the collection of aggregated data related to gender-based violence.
At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices; increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change; encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources; and addressing persistent and harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.
The project will increase community capacity to address family violence with their own practitioners and by building volunteer numbers to relieve pressure on social services agencies. Additionally, it will help strengthen the existing networks, the use of resources, ideas and influence

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Ethnocultural Council of Manitoba-Stronger Together Inc. will achieve this by reviewing and analyzing laws, policies, services and funding distribution related to intimate partner violence, building strong partnerships with the immigrant and refugee communities in Manitoba and developing and sharing resources about intimate partner violence with ethnocultural communities and with service providers that support ethnocultural communities.
At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.
This project will work with 30 different ethnocultural communities in Manitoba to create awareness about intimate partner violence and provide resources and support to advance immigrant and refugee women's recovery from the impacts of COVID-19.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Forum for Women Entrepreneurs in British Columbia will achieve this by working with funders, such as traditional financial institutions and equity investors, to remove or reduce women entrepreneurs’ barriers to accessing capital in order to grow their business. Funders will be invited to join a certification program that would involve educating staff, advancing new inclusive policies and practices, revisiting external and internal processes and updating their corporate culture. A particular focus will be put on addressing harmful perceptions and prejudices that funders may have towards women entrepreneurs and on recognizing and addressing the unique systemic barriers faced by Black, Indigenous and Women of Colour (BIWOC). A working group made up of representatives of women entrepreneurs and financial institutions, along with the voices of BIWOC and LGBTQ2S+ entrepreneurs and research on adapted funding practices, will inform the development of the processes, inclusive policies and practices and certification program.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes of the system, all to support women’s equality.

Through this 32-month project, LEAF will help advance women’s recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Specifically, this project will address systemic barriers by (1) advancing inclusive policies and practices, and by (2) increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change. LEAF’s project will advocate for feminist law reform promoting reproductive justice. LEAF will explore issues including child care, child protective services, pay inequity, domestic work, and women’s labour force participation. Key activities: Addressing existing discriminatory legislation, policies, and practices through collaboration and community consultation, and working closely with feminist organizations to propose/review policy and law reform for reproductive
justice in Canada Designing and implementing policies and practices to increase women’s participation in democratic, private, and civic leadership Strengthening and bolstering the feminist movement throughout Canada by building our networks, and conducting further consultations on these specific areas Outcomes: Advocate for concrete provincial law reform linked to reproductive justice, and federally (as necessary) with project collaborators Convene the feminist movement throughout Canada to advocate for
new policy and law reform changes related to reproductive justice as proposed through community engagement Create meaningful law reform change for women, girls, and gender diverse people impacted by current discriminatory policies.

Through this 34-month project, NAWL will work to advance women’s response and recovery from the impacts of COVID-19 through systemic feminist law reform. Objectives will be achieved by a combination of key activities, including: supporting and advancing intersectional feminist law reform engagement by women’s movements, organizations, lawyers and emerging law reformers; increasing NAWL’s online and social media advocacy and influence by creating and deploying proactive and timely content; bolstering
the network of feminist law reform alliances and coalitions through coalition building, including building a multi-disciplinary network of feminist legal experts; and directly undertaking proactive and reactive feminist law reform activities to promote systemic change, firmly rooted in substantive equality. Building on their respective areas of expertise, NAWL and its collaborators will focus their post-pandemic efforts on both process-driven and substantive law reform activities. For instance, as outlined above, NAWL will work in close collaboration with Luke’s Place on family law and other VAW reform efforts. NAWL will also prioritize expanding its law reform tools, particularly its FLR101 resources, to include provincial/territorial advocacy content, with LEAF becoming a primary potential user in the context of their proposed WAGE project on advancing reproductive justice.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce (CanWCC) will achieve this by bringing together organizations with similar goals to engage into and operate a national advocacy network of feminist equality-seeking organizations called the Economic Equity Alliance (EEA). The EEA will identify and prioritize key issues, legislation, policies and practices, and develop recommendations to advance marginalized communities and underrepresented women entrepreneurs. In addition to the advocacy network, the project will also create a community of practice of women entrepreneurs and mentors to provide support and share knowledge. Furthermore, an advocacy strategy and public knowledge mobilization campaign will be developed to share the project’s learnings.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers and issues impacting women entrepreneurs, and to supporting women’s equity-seeking organizations to advance and accelerate systemic change, with a particular focus on economic security and independence. The intended results will advance inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources. It will increase networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supporting a positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, to support women’s equality.

The project will address discriminatory legislation, policies, and practices that prevent women and girls from fully participating in the social, political, and economic spheres. Member organizations will work together to review policy and adopt recommendations to create a national advocacy strategy focused on an intersectional women’s economic recovery, with communications and assets disseminated across the country. CanWCC will pool resources, eliminate duplication of efforts, and strengthen each organization’s impact on key issues. Women and girls with lived experience will be engaged to influence pandemic recovery responses. The voices of women-identified entrepreneurs, particularly underrepresented women, will be reflected in the work of the EEA. A community of practice of women entrepreneurs and mentors will be developed. Also, a public knowledge mobilization campaign will be set up to share and disseminate project learnings.

CanWCC aims to convene and strengthen the feminist movement and build relationships between organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality. One of the key project activities is to build and strengthen effective partnerships across the ecosystem. The EEA will promote policies and practices which increase women’s labour market participation and opportunities, and women’s leadership in democratic, civic, public, or private sectors. The Women’s Enterprise Organizations of Canada (WEOC) and the Women’s Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH) are two key partners that will contribute to communication, promotion on social media, research, engagement, and knowledge and information gathering. A key indicator of success will be the number of partnerships created and sustained, which will be measured by membership, participation, and outcomes of the EEA.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to address the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. To achieve this, the Table de concertation de Laval en condition féminine plans to engage and provide women in Laval with the tools to participate actively in political life and implement changes to promote their inclusion in decision-making areas. The project provides training and guidance to empower women and support agencies in strengthening women’s leadership and maximizing the impact of their interventions with decision-making bodies. The organization will work with various political parties in the region and create innovation labs to support them in creating and strengthening inclusive practices, and deconstructing unconscious bias. Through mentoring and simulations of political spaces, women will be prepared for public interventions. The project will address the concerns of underrepresented women by promoting their candidacy and active participation in political spaces, and by raising awareness within the population of their needs.

By the end of the project, the organization will have helped address systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, and by supporting a positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power in support of women’s equality.