Grants and Contributions

This 13-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 of an event that will gather families affected across the province for dialogue and consultation. The topics to be discussed include: conclusions of the National Inquiry, the future of children to those lost, supports needed for families that are still searching, next steps for families in their journey.

This 8-month project will see attendees of the SMASH Peer Leader Retreat and SMASH school workshops create a Northern-focused media campaign to address healthy masculinities, end gender-based violence, and prevent sexual assault. A series of community engagement sessions will be held to develop a culturally-specific guide for boys, men, and masculine-identifying people in the North to promote gender equality in their communities.

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: community engagement sessions, sharing circles, the design and construction of a commemorative garden and an opening ceremony.

This 56-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow Native Women Inc.'s Niagara Chapter to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of a strategic fundraising strategy, focusing on the development of two annual fundraising events, and the establishment of an Events Planning Committee to ensure the sustainability of this strategy.

Supplemental funding in 2023 will be used to assess and renew the organization’s strategic plan and to develop and implement an organizational succession plan.

This 44-months project will address organizational capacity needs to allow Native Women Inc.'s Niagara Chapter to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of a strategic fundraising strategy, focusing on the development of two annual fundraising events, and the establishment of an Events Planning Committee to ensure the sustainability of this strategy.

This 48-month project will address organization capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic changes towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: human resources management, board governance, strategic planning and diversification of the organizations's funding sources.

This 12-month project will address organizational capacity needs through expansion of the organization’s research capabilities so the organization can become a National LGBTQ2 Research Lab/Hub, thereby ensuring greater accessibility to knowledge, expertise, and best practices in order to address discrimination and oppression experienced by members of the LGBTQ2 community in Canada. Specifically, organizational capacity will be further enhanced through the establishment of a National LGBTQ2 Academic Advisory Council; the development an online research hub; the completion a literature review and conducting research studies on key areas of interest; and, the promotion of the research hub and individual studies and findings via online communication channels.

This 44-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: development and implementation of a strategic plan including financial sustainability, strengthened communications, and increased membership and the enhancement of fundraising capacity through the development and implementation of a membership outreach and fundraising strategy.

This project will build organizational capacity through the development and implementation of an effective, sustainable, and long-term strategic plan in order to strengthen its ability to promote and advocate for women’s rights through evidence-based feminist research across Canada.

The supplemental funding will be used to strengthen two priority areas from the strategic plan: raising our visibility and working collaboratively. This will foster the relationship building needed for the Building Capacity Project and the Building Capacity for Intersectional Advocacy on Women’s Issues.

This 45-month project will support Pauktuutit to co-develop, with Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s National Inuit Youth Council, a national dialogue and action plan on gender equality. Young people from across the four Inuit Nunangat regions and urban areas will come together with Pauktuutit staff and youth board members through virtual and face-to-face discussions, with themes, trends and ideas captured to shape the creation of appropriate communications and outreach strategies. A range of activities will be considered, from organizing web-based events, to the creation of an electronic platform or online training and mentoring to build the capacity and confidence of Inuit youth to be able to advocate for gender equality. Support activities will include building skills for gender-based analysis plus to create understanding of intersectionality and empower youth to identify and respond to gender equality barriers and negative gender norms in their communities. The website, tools and other resources created through the project will be publically launched.

The supplemental funding will be used for the development of a public service announcement that addresses gender equality in Pangnirtung community; this would take place during the third year of the project. The supplemental funding will also be used to present this National Conversations on Gender Equality with Young Canadians project at two events in Iqaluit, in partnership with the Law Society of Nunavut. Pauktuuit is also seeking a Gender Equality project presentation with Equal Futures, at the next Gender Equity summit to be held in Yellowknife.

This 36-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting economic and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: development and implementation of a partnership/sponsorship and outreach strategy towards diversifying funding sources; a strategy for publicity and promotion towards increased reach across Canada; and performance measurement towards measuring the impact of the projects and initiatives.

The supplemental funding will be used to develop and implement a strategic plan and to adjust and implement an advocacy strategy.