Grants and Contributions

This 56-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, enhanced and formalized human resources policies, including an employee retention and development plan, a community engagement strategy for the feminist research community, and increased membership and enhanced 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 their visibility and working collaboratively. Additionally, supplemental funding will be used to develop a strategic communication plan to increase membership donor base, to develop human resource policies and a retention plan, as well as a community engagement strategy for feminist research organizations.

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.

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 enhanced fundraising capacity through the development and implementation of a membership outreach and fundraising strategy.

This 20-month project is a joint funding initiative that will work to promote the participation and representation of NWT women in political leadership roles across the territories. It will do this by accelerating the delivery of a new campaign school curriculum to a greater number of participants through the development of online tools and supporting a pilot of the new curriculum in each of the five regions of the NWT. A communications plan will also be developed and the program overall will be evaluated to ensure success in elevating Indigenous and Northern women into elected leadership roles.

This 8-month project will work to eliminate gender-based violence by using Grey Cup 2019 as a platform to raise public awareness, and mobilize community and corporate partners to minimize the impact of any spike in violence occurring during Grey Cup 2019.

This 8-month project will build networks and spaces for pro-feminist male leaders to engage among themselves and with feminists/women’s organizations on gender equality-related issues. The work undertaken in this project will inform a broader strategy on engaging men and boys.

"Red Amautiit" will bring families together for an unprecedented national initiative to commemorate missing and murdered Inuit women and girls. Thirteen partnering Inuit communities in Manitoba (Winnipeg, Churchill and Brandon), Nunavut (Baker Lake, Chesterfield Inlet, Saniqilluaq, Arviat, Whale Cove, Rankin Inlet, Repulse Bay and Coral Harbor) and Nunatsiavut (Nain and Rigolet, and Northern Labrador) will hold healing sewing circles for families of missing and murdered Inuit women and girls. Family members will share traditional Inuit sewing techniques as they collaborate to create a series of "Red Amautiit" (i.e. iconic female Inuit parkas) to commemorate their loved ones. These "Red Amautiit" and the stories behind them will be shared with the public at a series of temporary and permanent exhibitions. The project will run from July 2019 to March 2021.

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: working in consultation with families and community members to provide mental health, cultural services and programs for those affected, and to develop and create commemoration monuments.

This 20-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: create an educational toolkit to help end gender-based violence and other root causes of MMIWG in Métis communities. The toolkit will provide artwork, stories, and the strengths of Métis women as well as to deliver tools to organize a ceremony to honour Métis women in local communities across the homeland.

This 18-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: desktop research to expose systemic, societal and institutional factors that promote MMIWG and repression of LGBTQ2S individuals as well as the creation of several short videos depicting these factors which will be disseminated to TV networks, online platforms and organizations working in the field of MMIWG and LGBTQ2S.