Grants and Contributions

This 55-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: needs assessment, development and implementation of strategic plans, collaboration and networking, and enhancing organizational financial health.

The additional funds will be used to strengthen capacity in human resources management, strategic plan implementation, community engagement, partnership development, and funding source diversification. This will be achieved through the development and implementation of program manuals; improved organizational policies, procedures, and recruitment strategies; strategic and community outreach action plans; and a fundraising business model.

This 54-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Native Child and Family Services of Toronto to improve its service to Indigenous women and families in Toronto. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the assessment of the current staff training program and procedures followed by a large-scale redesign of a culturally appropriate and effective training program.

The 2023 supplemental funding will be used to revitalize the advocacy and branding initiatives inside the organization to better attract Indigenous candidates and ultimately better address the needs of the Indigenous community they serve, as well as develop and implement a human resources strategy and tools. These activities will continue to grow organizational capacity by incorporating Indigenous women’s perspectives in NCFST’s policies and programs.

This 42-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Native Child and Family Services of Toronto to improve its service to Indigenous women and families in Toronto. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the assessment of the current staff training program and procedures followed by a large-scale redesign of a culturally appropriate and effective training program.

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: needs assessment, development and implementation of strategic plans, collaboration and networking, and enhancing organizational financial health.

This 43-month project is a funding initiative that will first work to reinforce Inuit women and girls’ leadership and governance skills by engaging community, regional and territorial stakeholders in the organization of a Women and Girls Leadership and Governance Forum. Following the forum, various workshops and one on one mentorship will be delivered as a pilot activity in multiple communities of one chosen region of Nunavut with the collaboration of community level partners. Workshops will explore themes touching on economic security and prosperity, women’s empowerment and involvement in political and community action participation, using GBA+ in the analysis of ways to address population needs. Possibilities for implementing a Leadership and Governance academic program or curriculum will be explored with high schools and the Nunavut Arctic College. The project will also evaluate the potential replicability of the pilot activity in other regions of Nunavut.

This 19-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 series of commemorative art exhibits, hosted in four different cities throughout Ontario: Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Kenora, and Sioux Lookout; the collaborative Indigenous arts-based approaches used in this series will be self-determined by the families in each region, to honor their loved one in collaboration with ONWA, while encouraging public education and awareness of the loss and grief that continues to endure.

This 19-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 engaging school aged students groups to produce various arts as a medium to demonstrate teaching, feelings and impact of missing members of the community. The artworks produced, with the help of elders and community partners, will be displayed at various locations within the broader Hamilton community, to encourage viewing and healing conversations.

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 design and installation of two billboards in the city of Sault Ste. Marie that challenge the stereotypes and focus on the sacredness of Indigenous women; as well as a Women's Gathering to provide education and awareness on systemic gender-based violence and the over-representation of Indigenous women who go missing or have been murdered, which will include a Day of Honoring to remember those Anishinaabe kwe from the Bawating region who have gone missing or have been murdered.

This 19-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: coordination and support of commemoration initiatives; consultation with families, youth and members of the indigenous community; and two Winter Round Dances that will bring members of Toronto diverse Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities together.

This 18-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 development of curriculum material for an educational toolkit designed with, by, and for families and survivors; this curriculum will include awareness enrichment and will promote life-long learning to support Indigenous women in shelters with violence prevention, protection, and perseverance for their healing, wellness, and personal growth.