Grants and Contributions

This 26-month project will increase organizational capacity to allow the organization to continue to promote social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: human resources management and strategic planning.

This 19-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include: commemoration walk, educational and awareness activities and a healing program.

This 7-month project will address organizational capacity needs of the Rainbow Coalition for Refuge (RC4R) and promote collaborative knowledge generation and dissemination amongst the emerging national network of LGBTQ2 refugee civil society organizations in order to offer LGBTQ2 newcomers safety, care, and resources for resilience, as well as opportunities for livelihood and civic participation. Organizational capacity building will be enhanced through the development of RC4R’s governance structure, expansion and formalization of membership using a community of practice model, and conducting needs assessments of regional hubs and the National network. Knowledge generation will be enhanced through a literature review, environmental scan, and focus groups and the sharing of this information via regional hubs and a National consultation to inform priority setting for community building and advocacy efforts.

This 24-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: Indigenous cultural and trauma-informed training for staff members, knowledge sharing, program development and sustainability planning.

This 12-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include: the creation and installation of a commemorative monument, coordination of an unveiling ceremony and feast, a Grandmother-led Sisters in Spirit walk, and a young women’s drum group.

This 9-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include a one-day gathering for families and the wider community as well as creating a memorial statue or item for the missing or murdered individuals.

This 19-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2+ individuals and increase awareness of their disappearance and death. Project activities will include two large meetings involving commemoration, support, mutual assistance and healing activities for the families as well as outreach activities for the general public.

The Project is based on the principle of mobilizing new funds and partnerships to support and engage Canada’s community foundations in an effort to accelerate gender equality at the local level.

This project will advance gender equality in Canada in two main ways: by providing contribution funding to community foundations to fund projects in their communities, and by weaving in gender equality best practices within community foundations.

As such, the Project will directly support action to advance gender equality across Canada by leveraging the broad reach of community foundations. The Project will foster gender equality in Canada and will contribute to removing long-standing barriers to gender equality by catalyzing new investments and partnerships. The Project will provide funding to local women’s organizations through the community foundations for projects to advance gender equality. Community foundations will be encouraged to provide matched funding dollars to the investment already made by WAGE and activate fund development approaches that lean into feminist frameworks and principles.

The Project will also address gender equality at the institutional level. Community foundations will be encouraged to make a public commitment to gender equality, create programming that involves gender equality (e.g. hosting a Vital Conversation on Gender Equality) and review their internal policies and procedures (e.g. hiring practices) to prioritize gender equality.

Key outcomes of the Project will include increased funding to women’s organizations, increased capacity for equality-seeking organizations, and increased action to advance equality between women and men in the economic, social and democratic life of Canada.

The first and second supplemental funding will be used to expand the reach of the project to distribute additional funding to eligible organizations and to further support project activities.

This 32-month project will permit the organization of a provincial gathering of LGBTQ2 organizations to initiate a strategic reflection on the development of a concerted organizational vision that takes into account the diversity of realities and issues facing LGBTQ2 communities in Quebec. It will also help strengthen the financial viability of the organization and its ability to support its members by improving its communication practices, implementing a micro-financing program primarily targeting LGBTQ2 service organizations located outside the province's metropolitan areas and providing fundraising support services and capacity-building activities.

The additional funding will allow the organization to continue its expansion by strengthening its governance and communication practices and developing its programming. The organization will also implement an action plan derived from its strategic planning to build the capacity of its member organizations through the creation of an intra- and inter-regional mentoring program, explore new networking opportunities, develop a fundraising strategy and organize a second provincial LGBTQ2 consultation meeting with member organizations.

This 32-month project will enable the organization of a provincial gathering of LGBTQ2 organizations to engage in strategic reflection on developing a shared organizational vision that considers the diversity of realities and issues faced by LGBTQ2 communities in Quebec. It will also contribute to strengthening the organization's financial sustainability and its capacity to support its members by improving its communication practises, implementing a micro-financing program primarily for LGBTQ2 service organizations located outside of the province's metropolitan areas, and providing fundraising support services and capacity-building activities to its members.

The additional $300,000 in funding will allow for continued expansion of the organization through the strengthening of its governance and communication practises, in addition to program development. The organization will also implement an action plan derived from its own strategic planning in order to build the capacity of its member organizations by creating an intra- and inter-regional mentorship program, exploring new networking opportunities, developing a fundraising strategy, and organizing a second provincial LGBTQ+ consultation meeting with member organizations.

The 12-month extension and the second tranche of additional funding will allow the organization to build a culture of solidarity and mutual support among its members in order to strengthen the democratic practices, representativeness and legitimacy of the council, and to reinforce the cohesion of their working team as well as its internal skills.