Grants and Contributions

Through this 19-month project, True North Society will build its capacity to advance gender equality by addressing the increasingly acute and complex needs related to family violence. True North is uniquely positioned to grow their services to create a continuum of care that will address unmet needs along a spectrum and optimize their capacity to effectively prevent and address family violence. This project will involve conducting a needs assessment, engaging in operational, resource development and communications strategic planning, as well as enhancing organizational capacity in the areas of board governance, human resources and partnership and program development. By the project’s conclusion, the organization will have significantly improved its ability to provide comprehensive, sustainable, and scalable support to women and children experiencing family violence in the Rockyview, Wheatland, Kneehill, and Vulcan Counties, ensuring a more effective and coordinated response to these critical issues.

Through this 19-month project, the CALACS francophone d'Ottawa will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need to update and deepen the intersectional feminist analysis that guides some of the organization's core foundations. The project will include identifying gaps and issues that need to be updated according to an intersectional feminist approach specific to the CALACS; developing the tools and acquiring the feminist knowledge needed to update the organization's practices, policies and tools; and updating, implementing and evaluating these practices, policies and tools according to the intersectional feminist approach that was developed.

This 19-month project will support Girls Forward Foundation’s capacity-building in order to advance gender equality. This will allow the organization to further impact thousands of girls across Canada, empowering them through sport, physical activity, and education while providing support and resources to grassroots organizations. This project will focus on the organization's delivery, impact, advocacy, branding and sustainability as a national charity. Key activities will include hiring consultants and experts in the sector to support with governance, fundraising, marketing, and HR policies, strategies and processes; investing in staff training, professional development, and benefits; and bringing in new team members to support the operations growth.

Through this 19-month project, Safehope Home will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need to 1) better align services for survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the Greater Toronto Area and 2) diversify funding sources to enable Safehope Home to deliver supports and services to women survivors when in crisis. The project will include the development of a comprehensive plan to build an emergency shelter and detox facility as well as the creation of a fund development plan.

Through this 31-month project, Elizabeth Fry New Brunswick (EFNB) will help advance women’s economic and leadership opportunities through systemic change. This project will increase leadership opportunities for women from underrepresented backgrounds, implement consensus-building measures that better account for the unique needs of those who face intersecting discrimination and oppression that reproduce structural inequities, create a systematic space for all voices to be heard and have influence, and generate a model for nonprofits to move away from patriarchal structures of governance to systematically make space for Indigenous and other ways of knowing. They will collaborate with other community non-profit organizations to develop new and updated approaches that support more equitable and inclusive practices to decision making and distribution of power.

An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of this systemic change project.

Through this 19-month project, the Centre de femmes Le point d’ancrage will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. It will address how the organization develops plans, makes decisions, and manages people. The project will include developing guides and policies, a human resources strategy, and a strategic plan as well as creating intervention tools. Lastly, the project will enable the implementation of a digital transition by supporting the management and organization of paper and digital records.

Through this 19-month systemic change project, Aftermetoo will scale its digital platform to advance women’s representation in leadership and decision-making roles, particularly focusing on young women aged 18-34, a group highly vulnerable to gender-based workplace harassment (GBWH). This initiative will expand the reach of the original Aftermetoo digital property, to this younger demographic, addressing their critical needs for support and resources in combatting GBWH. To achieve this, the project will develop and support online communities where young women can exchange resources, learn from shared experiences, and organize for systemic change. Ambassadors with lived experience will provide support and guidance to the communities. Additionally, the project will form partnerships with key stakeholders influencing the systems that impact those experiencing GBWH, aiming to use insights from the affected communities to foster improvements in these systems.

Through this 19-month project, the Sexual Assault Crisis Centre of Essex County will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need to create a local inventory of opportunities and programs with clear pathways to address women’s and girl’s needs beyond violence. The project will work with experts to design a toolkit framework on wrap around services that is informed by research and local engagement with stakeholders. It will include scripts for engaging potential partners, tools, templates and resources and will subsequently be piloted with select local organizations to provide input into the toolkit.

Through this 19-month systemic change project, Fora: Network for Change will scale the reach and impact of the Rise on Boards project, to advance the representation of young women in pivotal leadership and decision-making roles. The scale out of Rise on Boards will introduce this project to French-speaking official language minority communities and extend to new locations across Canada. To do so, the project will undertake in-depth original research, influential thought leadership, forge strategic partnerships with provincial and federal non-profit networks and organize board equality events and workshops. The board equality resources will be adopted into existing non-profit hubs, ensuring a sustained impact on leadership diversity, increasing young women’s representation as leaders and decision-makers, and the realization of youth gender equality across Canada.

Throughout this 19-month project, Compass Early Learning and Care (CELC) will scale “Building Bright Futures in the Early Child Care Workforce” to enhance women’s economic security and prosperity by supporting viable career paths for equity deserving individuals, newcomer and low-income women, and 2SLGBTQI+ communities working as educators in centre-based childcare, through systemic change. It will scale the project intersectionally through engaging with key stakeholders who engage with equity deserving groups, such as newcomer and low-income women, and 2SLGBTQI+ in communities. Specifically, it will address barriers that inhibit low-income and newcomer women, nonbinary, and trans people from engaging in full and meaningful labour market participation as educators.

To do so, the project will (1) develop hiring and onboarding practices of centre-based child care educators through policies and organizational diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI), (2) engage working groups and partners, including municipalities and child care communities, and DEI committees located in Durham and Peterborough to gather information about the intersectionality of the scaled up population; (3) develop resources to identify barriers to education and employment of scaled group of equity deserving educators and incorporate intersectionality; (4) review existing CELC policies, procedures and practices to scale the previously developed practices from the closed project on assessing assumptions and create equitable one and (5) develop sustainability plan to remove barriers and increase stability for educators.