Grants and Contributions

This 49-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.

This project will test the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre's regional Community Support Network, a service model that incorporates a coordinated response to sexualized violence involving formal collaboration between organizations and service providers that work with marginalized survivors of violence.

This project will test an existing healing program, Heart Medicine Lodge, as a best practice in supporting Indigenous women survivors of sexual violence and assault in rural, northern and First Nation communities in Manitoba.

The project will develop, implement, and evaluate a cross-sector, multiagency, multi- disciplinary community response to commercial sex trafficking of vulnerable children and youth to improve the quality and consistency of care provided to young victims and their families.

This 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 who have left abusive partners.

This 45-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 organization's funding sources.

This 24-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Young Women's Christian Association of Cambridge (YWCA Cambridge) to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of a social enterprise model connected to the local food industry that will create opportunities to advance the economic security of women and gender non-conforming individuals who face barriers and discrimination in finding employment and meaningful connections, as well as provide sustainable funding for YWCA Cambridge.

The project will test and evaluate a comprehensive low-barrier, peer-support, survivor-centric and trauma-informed approach for criminalized (cis and trans) women survivors of gender-based violence in the Metro Vancouver region in British Columbia, in order to address barriers to accessing support services.

This 48-month project will address the organization’s capacity needs to continue improving the economic, health, education and overall standard of living for Indigenous women and advancing gender equality in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through board governance training, organizational financial health, partnership development, human resource management, and advocacy.

This 48-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. The organization will develop and implement a detailed knowledge-transfer plan within the organization to ensure the delivery of continuous quality services and organizational sustainability.

The additional amount granted will be used to create an added knowledge transfer and acquisition tool, i.e., a series of short videos featuring concrete examples of feminist principles at work in the daily life of a sexual assault support centre.