Grants and Contributions

This 46-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through creating a long-term Strategic Plan; creating a current and implementable Advocacy Plan; increase organizational financial health and stability through administrative support and in-house grant-writing capacity, informed by gender-based violence expertise; and increase structural stability to OCRCC’s anti-oppression, anti-racist and Gender-based Analysis work. This Project will see a provincial reach to Ontario sexual assault centres.

This 36-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow Perth County Transition Home for Women (Optimism Place) to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of strategic fundraising and communication strategies, the establishment of Board governance policies, and fostering community partnerships in the Perth County area.

This 47-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 of a risk management framework and board training; identifying and implementing needed changes and revisions to internal policies, systems, and processes necessary for long term stability and sustainability, implementation of the strategic plan; identification of contractual and financial risk while also building financial capacity and the building of risk management/governance capacity among its provincial and territorial member associations (PTMAs). The improved stability and capacity will benefit this national indigenous organization and its thirteen PTMAs while also supporting the well-being and prosperity of Indigenous women, girls, two-Spirit, and gender diverse people.

This 47-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 and sustainable plan to enhance organizational financial health, networking and collaboration and volunteer engagement.

This 47-month project will increase access to transition houses for Indigenous women and children by testing a service model, “Cedar Blankets: Building wraparound supports & reducing barriers for Indigenous women and children to transition houses and safe homes,” aimed at developing culturally informed practices in transition houses and safe homes in British Columbia.

This 60-month project will develop and implement a regional network model of response for survivors of sexual violence, based on the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) model, to provide sensitive and consistent supports, interventions, and system navigation to women who have been sexually assaulted in Happy Valley-Goose Bay and surrounding communities in Labrador.

This 47-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Canadian Association for Girls in Science to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Supported activities will include the creation of automated membership systems, websites, and volunteer training videos for increased efficiency and reduced administrative burdens. The organization’s financial sustainability will in turn be strengthened through the creation of a Board of Champions to raise its profile and connect the Association with new funders, and the piloting of promotional strategies by chapters to attract new paid members and supporters. Together these activities will enable the expansion of chapters to new cities.

This 47-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, together with its member societies, to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Activities will include research to shape the creation of strategic approaches to justice for criminalized women, particularly a reintegration toolkit with pre-release handbook and a pro-bono network of lawyers to support access to justice at earlier stages. Training will be undertaken with member societies and a range of federal, provincial and local stakeholders and processes standardized for access to justice across the organization. The value of the collected evidence base and recommended policy, program, and service options will be tested through fundraising.

This 47-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 of a human resources strategy; creation of women's network and Indigenous Advisory Council; as well as the development and implementation of an advocacy framework and fundraising strategy.

This 59-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow Northwestern Ontario Women's Centre to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through partnerships with local women's advocates in the development of a collaborative advocacy strategy on gender-based violence that is informed by anti-racism, anti-oppression, trauma-informed and gender-based analysis frameworks. This advocacy strategy includes connecting with existing broader campaigns and efforts, the creation of an online platform and communication network, the analysis and publication of legal system outcomes through this network, and the establishment of an annual ""Think Tank"" for local women's advocates.

The 2023 supplementary funds will be used to develop a standardized program evaluation protocol, build and retain diverse board and staff through a recruitment protocol, develop an organizational plan focussing on pension and benefit development, design a standardized annual budget development process to complement and operationalize the new strategic plan and increase capacity for standardized GBA Court Observation through data management.