Grants and Contributions

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 12-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 activity: diversification of funding.

This 36-month project will address organizational capacity needs to enable METRAC: Action on Violence to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of a 3-year fundraising strategy, including new fundraising policies and a donor management strategy, the integration of new donor management software, the development of a communications strategy for donor engagement, as well as the creation and implementation of two new signature fundraising and partnership development events.

This 36-month project will enable Actua to develop innovative on- and offline programming that empowers girls and young women to critically assess online interactions and threats in ways that reduce cyber-violence and promote positive digital and community citizenship. Approaches and content will be tested to ensure that they are appropriate to a range of ages and youth populations, particularly those that are economically and socially marginalized. The project will then develop a plan to scale-up learnings for inclusion in a variety of existing Actua programs and will share lessons with influential stakeholders through thought leadership activities.

This 5-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: Opening Ceremonies to honour MMIWG2S and a podcast series based on the television episodes of ‘TAKEN’ that tells the personal stories of MMIWG2S through interviews with loved ones, community leaders, elders, experts, and law enforcement.

This 43-month project will support NWAC to develop a communications and outreach strategy, including a bilingual online networking platform to link young women, girls, two-spirit and gender diverse youth from across the country. Youth will be consulted in the development of the strategy, and will in turn use the platform to exchange ideas on promoting gender equality, while identifying and pursuing opportunities to build the leadership and advocacy skills they need to do so. Starting in the second year, six different youth will come together annually to exchange ideas and collaboratively identify initiatives to promote gender equality in their communities in the following months.

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 hosting a gathering to bring together families affected to participate in healing workshops, cultural ceremonies, and to plan commemoration projects in each of the member Nations of North Peace Tribal Council.

This 20-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 coordination and support of commemoration initiatives which will include two commemorative round dances, launching three tipi ribbon skirt campaigns, and the creation of a commemorative plaque.

This 16-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: the coordination and support of commemoration initiatives with families affected in the Fort Nelson First Nation. This will include working alongside families to set up monthly gatherings, supporting families to attend the Sisters in Spirit vigil, supporting families to create a memorial to their loved one, building a permanent memorial informed by the families, and holding a feast leading to the unveiling of the memorial.

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 including workshops to discuss Indigenous women’s safety and increase awareness of MMIWG and male violence against women, healing circles, and the creation of a collaborative art exhibit and guide book to be shared with affected communities.