Grants and Contributions

This 60-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Elizabeth Fry Society of Peterborough, in partnership with two local organizations, to continue to promote social and systemic change towards gender equality. Through this project, the Elizabeth Fry Society of Peterborough will contribute to developing a hub of services with the Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre and the Peterborough Community Legal Centre, to increase their collective capacity to respond to clients living with complex trauma, as a result of gender-based violence and its intersecting oppression. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of a strategic plan for the hub model, the creation of Human Resources strategies for the hub, as well as the development of a collective advocacy strategy to strengthen the support offered to self-identified women living with complex trauma within Peterborough and surrounding communities.

The 2023 supplemental funding will be used to develop and implement an organizational succession plan, including professional development and management skills training for leaders.

This 60-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 for the creation of an additional knowledge transfer and acquisition tool: a series of video vignettes featuring concrete examples of the application of feminist principles in the daily work of a CALACS.

The additional amount for 2023 will be used to review and update techniques for supporting and accompanying survivors to equip workers to support survivors in an intersectional approach while taking into account new trends in post-COVID-19 pandemic survival. The organization will conceptualize new integration and training tools to take into account the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and equip workers who are members of the network committee with an intersectional feminist approach on the use of feminist sandplay therapy adapted to the needs of Francophone survivors of sexual and spousal violence.

This 60-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow YWCA Sudbury to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced by building and maintaining a culture of leadership continuity that utilizes a results-based management and a gender-based analysis approach, and through the creation of a fundraising plan that includes revenue diversification and the development of strategic partnerships and collaborations.

Additional funds provided in December 2020 supported the implementation of the Women In Safe Housing (W.I.S.H.) database to help deliver online staff training and development sessions.

Supplemental funding provided in spring 2023 will support the organization’s human resource management, through the development of tools and processes related to staff performance management and the development and delivery of in-house trauma-informed care training for staff, board and volunteers.

This 48-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue advancing gender equality in its community. To achieve its objectives, the project will oversee the following capacity building activities: board governance training; partnership development; strategic planning to enhance financial health; Advocacy strategy; and GBA+ training.

An extension and supplement have been allocated to East Prince Women’s Information Committee to develop a new policy and procedures manual, to ensure compliance of the policies and procedures with current legislation, and to develop a human resources guide.

This 48-month project will strengthen organizational capacity through a comprehensive internal exercise that will enhance the organization’s ability to continue supporting and promoting gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: a review and update of Board governance; organizational financial health; succession planning; HR management; internal policy reviews; and strategic planning.

The extension in time and additional funds will allow the organization to review and enhance the HR compensation policy and organizational structure; diversification of funding sources; and partnership development, collaboration, and networking.

This 60-month project will evaluate and show that the organization's relationship health intervention practice is a model example to provide, real, effective support for transient women who are victims of gender-based violence.

This 49-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue to strengthen and support the network of provincially funded shelters and services for women affected by relationship violence. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: training on board governance and organization financial health, partnership development, collaboration and networking, strategic planning, results-based management and advocacy.

This project will increase the well-being of survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and their families, living in rural communities, through the creation of community-based survivor-centered circle meetings, responding to the need for safety and independence and by adaptation of community-based knowledge and systems-based resources into a local wrap-around response led by survivors.

This project will research, develop and test the application of risk assessment methodologies that identify and address the needs of women survivors of gender-based violence in order to increase the ability of service providers to assess risk in a sensitive and responsive manner, which can ultimately save lives.

Supplemental funding will allow the organization to respond to the feedback received from survivors, by expanding the promising practice developed, to include a Safety Assessment Web-Tool for Survivors.

This project will test the adaptation of the Signs of SafetyTM model to a settlement context to increase cultural safety for families in service provision and improve collaboration with gender-based violence service providers in order to maximize the safety of immigrant/refugee women and children in situations of domestic violence.