Grants and Contributions

Through this 30-month systemic change project, the UN Global Compact Network Canada will help advance women’s representation in leadership and decision-making roles by targeting male allyship. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within gender norms and attitudes, and authority, voices at the table, and decision-making power by focusing on the role of male allyship for gender equality. This will be done through conducting consultation sessions with women from equity-deserving groups to understand existing challenges and gaps to their career development, convening a male allyship working group to create space for candid conversations and identify areas where support and guidance is needed, bringing women leaders together in an advisory committee to discuss the impact allyship had on their careers, and developing a Male Allyship Action Plan Guide to highlight actionable steps and resources for any organization wanting to enhance allyship within their diversity, equity, and inclusion work. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Over a 18-month period, Women in Urbanism Canada (WIUC) will undertake this project to increase its capacity to advance gender equity in Canadian cities. This will be achieved through strategic planning and development across the areas of governance, human resources, finances, and communications. The key activities include creating strategies, developing policies and procedures, and strengthening internal capacity through training. This project will support the growth of the organization, thereby advancing positive change for more women, girls, and gender-diverse people in communities across Canada.

Through this 18-month project, Gender Equity in Media Society Vancouver will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the organization’s need for training, updated policies and practices, and focused organizational direction. The project will include a review and update to human resource policies, development of financial sustainability strategies, board and staff training, upgrades to operational systems, and strategic planning.

Through this 30-month project, TransEstrie will address 2SLGBTQI+ communities’ equality-related needs and barriers. To do this, the organization will first prepare a plain-language guide for healthcare professionals on interpreting and applying the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People (SOC) in Quebec. The guide will help healthcare professionals to adopt practices that are both consistent with the SOC and reflective of Quebec’s realities. Through this work, TransEstrie wishes to improve the provision of care to gender-diverse people. Second, TransEstrie will develop a multimedia tool based on the principle of the “human library” and the experiences of “photovoices.” This will promote subjects’ autonomy in their self-representation by encouraging them to express their agency and authority in their medical journey, and it will help humanize trans and non-binary people’s experiences.

Through this 19-month project, the Comité de la Condition Féminine au Témiscamingue will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. It will address the need to adjust the organization’s practices in response to recent increase in complexity of specific issues affecting women within its operating area. The project will include research and documentation on the reality for women in Témiscamingue through an intersectional lens as well as integrating the feminist intersectional approach into the organization’s practices.

Through this 30-month project, the Montreal City Mission will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. More specifically, the project will address systemic barriers in access to justice facing women and 2SLGBTQI+ people who are undocumented or have a precarious status, as well as the impacts of the requirement for requesting renewal of a temporary resident permit (TRP) on those who experience domestic violence. The project will help improve access to legal services for migrant women and 2SLGBTQI+ people, deploy an advocacy campaign on the impact of the TRP, initiate a dialogue with stakeholders, and inform and educate the public about the barriers facing migrant women and 2SLGBTQI+ people. An external evaluation will measure and assess the impact of this systemic change project.

Through this 21-month project, Women’s Hostels Inc will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers to affordable housing for women and gender diverse people within the GTA. The project will 1) undertake research on barriers to housing for women and gender-diverse people in the GTA, 2) create a network of experts to guide the Social Justice Advisory Committee and Toronto Women in Action participants in the development of an action plan; 2) advocate at systems planning tables at the municipal, provincial and federal level to address barriers to housing for women and gender-diverse people in the GTA.; 3) work with the construction industry and builders to advocate for construction projects aimed at affordable rental units for women and gender-diverse people in the GTA. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 18-month project, The United African Canadian Women Association (UACWA) will strengthen its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address UACWA's capacity and enable it to continue to build a strong, sustainable structure and network. The project will include the development of a comprehensive 5-year strategic plan, through board leadership development and the development of meaningful partnerships.

Through this 30-month systemic change project, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within the care economy in order to properly value care work, beginning with the creation of an advisory committee and engagement of key stakeholders. LEAF will conduct a literature review and an environmental scan, culminating in a report, and will develop public legal education materials addressing key issues that have been identified. The organization will develop and conduct workshops that respond to and challenge the barriers to valuing care work, that provide care workers with legal information in relation to their workplace rights or rights as caregivers, and that touch on avenues for law reform. The developed public legal education materials and workshop will also be distributed and delivered to LEAF’s network of branches, and professional facilitators will train LEAF’s branches as well as community organizations to deliver them to others. In collaboration with stakeholders and the project advisory committee, LEAF will develop law reform advocacy proposals related to the barriers within the care economy identified in the earlier stages of this project. These will be compiled in a formal report and distributed to the organization’s broader network and branches, as the Advocacy Manager is trained in how to build an effective advocacy campaign and begins mobilization. LEAF, in coalition with stakeholders and a network of care economy organizations, will engage in advocacy based on the proposals compiled into the formal report and will set advocacy goals. LEAF will develop an informal coalition to continue advocacy beyond project conclusion. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 30-month project, Girls Incorporated of Durham will help advance women’s representation in leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers experienced by young girls primarily within the three high priority neighbourhoods across the Durham Region (Whitby, Oshawa, Ajax) where there is a need to provide girls opportunities, experiences, and role models to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers. Girls Incorporated of Durham will do this by forming the project team; conducting background research and community consultations and incorporating findings; approving and implementing the project plan (including facilitating policy changes); delivering leadership and community action programs (internship); evaluating the pilot and celebrating the participant’s experiences. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.