Grants and Contributions

This 11-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 traditional teaching sessions with the community, webinar training for remote participants, and a final webinar production to be shared with the wider community.

This 43-month project will address Women’s Shelters Canada’s (WSC) capacity-building needs and will enable it to continue advancing gender equality at a national level. WSC will develop and implement a sustainability plan that will include a funding diversification strategy. WSC will also increase sector capacity through engagement of its network of provincial and territorial shelters and transitional houses in the development and implementation of a collective advocacy strategy.

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: coordination and support of commemoration initiatives such as healing circles and a film festival which include the unveiling of a commemorative plaque.

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: coordination and support of commemoration initiatives. These will include healing camps, men’s, women’s, and youth groups, a traditional hunt, education and awareness activities. In addition, a larger commemorative initiative will be developed in consultation with affected families.

The additional funding will strengthen the capacity of Women’s Shelters Canada to help violence against women’s shelters across Canada to manage the COVID-19 outbreak.

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: development of a narrative report, based on familial interviews, to identify prevention initiatives, as well as health and wellness activities, and social programs. Additionally, Grief and Loss sessions will be facilitated throughout the duration of the project and a commemorative monument will be built followed by a ceremony and community feast.

This 20-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2+ individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2+ individuals. Project activities will include art therapy, healing on traditional sites and a commemorative evening with the families.

This 8-month project will address organizational capacity needs through expansion of its research capacity and positioning itself as a National LGBTQ2 Research Lab/Hub in order to ensure greater accessibility to knowledge, expertise, and best practices to address discrimination and oppression experienced by members of the LGBTQ2 community in Canada. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through establishing a National LGBTQ2 Academic Advisory Council; developing an online research hub; completing a literature review and conducting preliminary research summaries on key areas of interest; and promoting the research hub and individual studies and findings via online communication channels.

This 32-month project addresses organizational capacity needs through expansion of Egale’s research capacity and positioning the organization as a National LGBTQ2 Research Lab/Hub in order to ensure greater accessibility to knowledge, expertise, and best practices. This will address discrimination and oppression experienced by members of the LGBTQ2 community in Canada. Organizational capacity is being enhanced through establishing a National LGBTQ2 Academic Advisory Council; developing an online research hub; completing a literature review and conducting preliminary research summaries on key areas of interest; and promoting the research hub and individual studies and findings via online communication channels.

The additional funding is for the second phase of the project. In the second phase of the project, Egale will fortify sector knowledge and access to data, strengthen networks, advance intersectionality and build internal organizational human resources and strategic planning capacity. These objectives will be achieved through expanding and solidifying the National LGBTQI2S Academic Advisory Committee, conducting critical research into key issue areas and addressing human resources and strategic planning needs within the organization.

This 44-month project addresses organizational capacity needs through expansion of Egale’s research capacity and positioning the organization as a National LGBTQ2 Research Lab/Hub in order to ensure greater accessibility to knowledge, expertise, and best practices to address discrimination and oppression experienced by members of the LGBTQ2 community in Canada. Organizational capacity is being enhanced through establishing a National LGBTQ2 Academic Advisory Council; developing an online research hub; completing a literature review and conducting preliminary research summaries on key areas of interest; and promoting the research hub and individual studies and findings via online communication channels.

In the second phase of the project, Egale will fortify sector knowledge and access to data, strengthen networks, advance intersectionality and build internal organizational human resource and strategic planning capacity. These objectives will be achieved through expanding and solidifying the National LGBTQI2S Academic Advisory Committee, conducting critical research into key issue areas and addressing human resources and strategic planning needs within the organization.

In the third phase of the project, Egale will continue to build their knowledge, expertise and create best practices for solutions to address discrimination and oppression experienced by members of the LGBTQI2S community in Canada.