Grants and Contributions

This 60-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow Focus for Ethnic Women Waterloo Region Inc. to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality, through their work with immigrant, refugee, and visible minority women. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the strengthening of the Board Governance Committee, fostering partnerships and collaborations, and the development of a fundraising strategy, as well as a strategic and sustainable evidence-based 5-year plan for program development and delivery.

Supplemental funding will be used to update governance materials and relevant staff policies and procedures and create marketing and communication plans.

This 60-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of an organizational sustainability plan that includes partnerships building and a social enterprise model, as well as the implementation of technological upgrades to better support the expanded suite of services in fulfilling the organization’s mission to end violence against women and girls in the Waterloo Region.

The supplemental funds will be used to build their capacity and sustainability through the transition to a new client database that will better meet the needs of their diverse programming, freeing up a great deal of administrative time, and providing them with the data needed for reports and funding applications.

This 60-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: board governance; strategic planning; partnership development; collaboration and networking; development of an advocacy strategy; human resources management; and organizational financial health.

The 12-month extension and supplement granted to the organization will allow it to identify and develop key areas for internal policies such as workplace anti-harassment and diversity and inclusion; to develop human resources best practices and fundraising tools and, to build managerial capacity in terms of legal documentation and communication planning.

This 60-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 and development of a practice framework based on an intersectional feminist approach.

The additional funds will be used to develop an implementation strategy for the previously developed Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Practice Framework and to implement this practice framework within the organization to strengthen its capacity to advance equality for women and girls from an intersectional feminist perspective.

This 60-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: strategic planning; partnership development, organizational financial health and sustainability plan.

The 12-month extension and additional funds will allow the organization to increase their organizational capacity through a variety of activities: boosting community engagement, ooverseeing their financial management strategies, and developping an advocacy strategy. Further, they will develop a transition plan to ensure organizational health and knowledge is retained as previous leadership transitions out.

This 60-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: strategic planning, partnership development, collaboration, sectoral coalitions and networking, and development of a claims strategy.

The 12-month extension and supplement will enable the organization to support management capacity, enhance technical expertise from an intersectional feminist perspective, strengthen collaboration among partners and, finally, advance the cause of women through an intersectional approach.

This 48-month project will test and evaluate the application of the Aboriginal Women's Intervention as a promising practice in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver, including its expansion to the experiences of immigrant women in order to improve the health and well-being of women survivors of intimate partner violence.

This 60-month project will develop, implement, and evaluate a cross-sector, multiagency, multidisciplinary community response to the commercial sex trafficking of vulnerable children and youth in order to improve the quality and consistency of care provided to young victims and their families.

The aim of this 33-month project is to develop a strategic plan for the organization in order to reorganize and strengthen RECAF's organizational capacities. The concept of gender will be integrated into the organization's system of operations, allowing the organization to better meet the socio-economic needs of Francophone women and girls of ethno-cultural origin and contribute to gender equality.

The financial and time supplement is granted to allow RECAF to finalize the drafting and promotion of a manual on the concept of gender, and to strengthen the capacities of the Francophone community network in Ontario to serve Francophone women and girls of ethnocultural origin.

This 24-month project will address organizational capacity to allow Hiatus House to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced by strengthening internal Human Resources policies and procedures; updating the payroll management system to mitigate risk and improve recruitment and retention; as well as a website revision to ensure accessibility in both official languages through a user-friendly platform for the Windsor-Essex County community members and partners.

Supplemental funding will be used to improve internal team’s ability to provide safe and flexible care for all women by bringing knowledge and tools to improve and evaluate outcomes and by partnering with the Indigenous community; to increase diversity of funding and implement collaborative initiative to increase sector sustainability.