Grants and Contributions

This 48-month project will identify and address key policies that create systemic barriers for young women aging out of foster care in five provinces and territories. These barriers include gaps in child welfare permanency planning, education, employment, housing, health care and the justice system.

The additional funding will support and will fill missing gaps in original consultation by connecting with other groups representing the Canadian diversity (Black, Indigenous and gender diverse) who are aging out/or have already aged of the child welfare system in Ontario and Manitoba and will allow Adoption Council of Canada to undertake a national symposium.

This 36-month project aims to increase recruitment and retention of women in executive roles and in the trades in the forestry sector. Main activities include a needs assessment and literature review; identification of promising practices; nationwide consultation and engagement strategy; development and implementation of strategic national plan.

The supplemental funding will support the implementation of the project as initially envisioned. This supplement will allow the Canadian Institute of Forestry to undertake the following additional activities: develop a gender equity advocacy toolkit; attain a best practices report from leading international companies that have been certified in gender equality in the workplace certification; and develop communication tools to access women as a potential labour market pool in the forest sector.

This 36-month project seeks to influence culturally-relevant changes to provincial child protection policies and programs to facilitate Indigenous women’s access to services and reduce the likelihood that they stay in unsafe households to avoid being separated from their children. The organization will mobilize and engage relevant stakeholders to increase their knowledge of the impact of over-representation of Indigenous children and youth in the child protection justice system. Together they will identify existing measures, policies, and procedures contributing to this over-representation. Based on the findings, the organization will develop alternative measures that are culturally-appropriate and can be integrated within the mainstream child welfare system.

The supplemental funding will be used for engaging with a consultant to perform policy analysis/research to support the project work. This will encompass policy recommendations to current legislation around Indigenous children in care.

This 48-month project will improve response systems for victims of sexual violence in Renfrew County by empowering women and girls to advocate for enhanced and accessible services in rural contexts. A survivor community advisory committee and a project advisory group will support the organization in identifying key issues and solutions. The organization will work with survivors and service providers to develop a resource manual on survivor self-advocacy. It will be used to pilot strategies to improve victim response systems and survivor experience. The project will also establish a community of practice to engage communities working to end violence against women in rural contexts to share knowledge and collaborate for effective action.

Supplementary funding will be used to support the full scope of the project to improve response systems for women victims of sexual violence in rural communities across Renfrew County.

This 36-month project will improve response systems for victims of sexual violence in Renfrew County by empowering women and girls to advocate for enhanced and accessible services in rural contexts. A survivor community advisory committee and a project advisory group will support the organization in identifying key issues and solutions. The organization will work with survivors and service providers to develop a resource manual on survivor self-advocacy. It will be used to pilot strategies to improve victim response systems and survivor experience. The project will also establish a community of practice to engage communities working to end violence against women in rural contexts to share knowledge and collaborate for effective action.
Supplementary funding will be used to support the full scope of the project to improve response
systems for women victims of sexual violence in rural communities across Renfrew County.

This 48-month project will engage men and boys as agents of change to reduce violence against women and girls across all four regions of Inuit Nunangat, referring to Inuit homeland consisting of Inuvialuit (NWT), Nunatsiavut (Labrador), Nunavik (Quebec), and Nunavut. Through the project, Pauktuutit will partner with women’s organizations, men’s groups, frontline service providers, such as shelters and other stakeholders, to develop and implement culturally-appropriate targeted interventions. They will work directly with men’s groups on how to take a leadership role against violence, and a national role-model campaign will also be developed to encourage men, women and youth to speak and act against violence.

Additional funds will help mitigate the impact of unforeseen changes to the project activities as a result COVID-19 pandemic.

This 57-month project will reduce barriers to stable employment and opportunities for advancement for women working in not-for-profit sectors in Ontario. Working with a project advisory committee, key stakeholders and network members, the organization will conduct a gender analysis of systemic conditions which contribute to precarious work. The project will lead to the development and promotion of new practice and policy solutions that address fair wages, pensions and other benefits, equal rights at work, and measures to improve and sustain government investment in the sector. Promising approaches and demonstration models will be piloted through partner agencies and will be shared with government policy makers, funders, and sector leaders to promote their uptake. Results will also be disseminated amongst broader stakeholders in order to strengthen coordinated responses to achieving decent work reforms for women in the not-for-profit sector.

Original supplemental amount is being used to expand the work of the current project and cover the cost of mobilizing additional research to the impact of labour policies in the non-profit sector, particularly for Francophone non-profit organizations in Ontario.

Additional supplemental funding will be used to continue to developing research and expanding outreach to create stronger networks to advocate for women economic security in the “care sector” revealed by COVID-19.

This 48-month project will reduce barriers to stable employment and opportunities for advancement for women working in not-for-profit sectors in Ontario. To achieve this, the organization will conduct a gender analysis of systemic conditions which contribute to precarious work, and develop, pilot and promote and disseminate new practice and policy solutions that address fair wages, pensions and other benefits, equal rights at work, and measures to improve and sustain government investment in the sector.

This 36-month project will reduce barriers to stable employment and opportunities for advancement for women working in not-for-profit sectors in Ontario. Working with a project advisory committee, key stakeholders and network members, the organization will conduct a gender analysis of systemic conditions which contribute to precarious work. The project will lead to the development and promotion of new practice and policy solutions that address fair wages, pensions and other benefits, equal rights at work, and measures to improve and sustain government investment in the sector. Promising approaches and demonstration models will be piloted through partner agencies and will be shared with government policy makers, funders, and sector leaders to promote their uptake. Results will also be disseminated amongst broader stakeholders in order to strengthen coordinated responses to achieving decent work reforms for women in the not-for-profit sector.

This 50-month project will provide young women aged 18-25 with meaningful leadership opportunities to build the capacity of community organizations’ boards to implement Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA+) throughout their practices and policies. Young women will be provided with one-year assignments on community organizations’ boards and in consultation with their assigned board, will select a program or a policy within the organization that will be reviewed through a GBA+ lens. The organization will also evaluate the revised and enhanced project design, and implement governance training, “anti-oppression” training, increased local meet-ups, and increased ongoing support to participants from G(irls)20 staff.

Through the project, volunteer boards and organizations will be engaged to consider gender equality when making decisions that are shaping their policies and programs, and a pool of organizations interested in improving their board diversity will be created. Best practices will be shared widely among volunteer organizations.