Grants and Contributions

Through this 20-month project Haven Society will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the organization’s need for a strategic plan and roadmap informed by stakeholder consultation. The project will include research to assess current conditions and needs within the organization, community and sector, and strategic planning and roadmap development. The project will also include evaluation of the strategic plan and communication of the plan to stakeholders.

Through this 20-month project, We Worthy Women will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the lack of current core funding, work to build more effective organizational structure and governance, and solidify processes and partnerships to sustain long-term social impact in the community. The project will include developing a corporate sponsorship strategy, increasing proposal writing capacity, improving board governance, and developing bylaws and policies. It will also grow partnerships, improve processes for project and people management, and create a strategic plan and an evaluation framework to measure impact.

Through this 20-month project, Réseau-Femmes Colombie-Britannique will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. Having maintained a strong presence throughout the province for 35 years, the organization needs to acquire the tools to help it create, reinforce, and stabilize a healthy, inclusive, equitable environment. Réseau-Femmes Colombie-Britannique will strengthen its governance by establishing bylaws and policies. Various training programs will help improve understandings of non-profit management, including the structure of the accountability framework, the steps and methods for getting involved, and how to represent Francophone women with diverse identities in British Columbia. The project will also include developing an inclusive human resources policy; outlining the development of policies, toolkits, and guides; and finally, creating a five-year strategic plan.

The supplemental funds will be used to promote organizational health and sustainability, strengthen governance capacities to overcome challenges and crisis, and support the establishment of organizational clarity.

Through this 32-month project, Leadership féminin Prescott-Russell (LFPR) will bring about system change to help advance women’s economic security and prosperity. More specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within the sectors of economy/entrepreneurship and justice/security/health/social equity by: (1) implementing a supportive infrastructure in terms of collective impact (2) preparing women for leadership positions in politics and governance (3) mobilizing and engaging communities for parity and equality. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 20-month project, the Fonds d’investissement pour l’entrepeneurship au féminin will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. It will focus on updating knowledge, improving tools, and strengthening collaboration with organizations in the Côte-Nord region to ensure appropriate service delivery to Innu women. The project will include establishing a group of Innu women consultants, documenting the needs of Innu women entrepreneurs, developing pilot projects involving collaboration with key partners, and updating support tools for Innu women entrepreneurs.

Through this 32-month systemic change project, Women’s Habitat of Etobicoke will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. Specifically, the project will increase opportunities for women to enter and succeed in predominantly male workplace environments by building the capacity of employers to implement anti-oppressive, anti-racist, trauma-informed policies and practices. The project will 1) develop an engagement strategy guided by women with lived experiences of GBV; 2) design a training program based on a needs assessment and on consultations with prospective participants; and 3) deliver training to the selected companies and support their efforts to make their workplaces more equitable. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 21-month systemic change project, South Asian Women's and Immigrants' Services Inc. (SAWIS) will scale the “Pandemic Response by Highly Impacted Communities” project to advance women’s economic security and prosperity and increase representation in leadership and decision-making roles. It will work with visible minority newcomer women (VMNW) in SAWIS's catchment community (Scarborough and Greater Toronto Area (GTA)) previously identified as women leaders and activists to scale-up the scope and level of engagement in system change activities. It will address inequalities related to gender, race, ethnicity, immigration status and labour market position and initiate collective action. To do so, the project will a) recruit and activate project leaders and working groups; b) consolidate knowledge of community impact of inequities and response for systemic change; c) conduct GBA+ and environmental scans to understand the community’s needs for social policy change and decision making d) activate working groups led by community leaders; e) engage affected communities in systemic change initiatives; f) communicate and network; and g) monitor and evaluate.

Through this 32-month systemic change project, ONN will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within [Ontario’s Care Economy] by adapting Oxfam Canada’s care economy score card to the Ontario context, assessing Ontario’s care economy using the adapted scorecard, and mobilizing the results. In turn, the project will also identify efforts to seed, support, and grow to advance a care policy framework (care informed public policy and a collective and holistic public policy approach to the care economy) rooted in GBA+. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 21-month project, Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes will build its capacity and that of its member organizations to advance gender equality. It will address the need to ensure the sustainability of services so that Francophone women and non-binary people in Ontario can obtain quality services in French. The project will include: 1- the implementation of fund diversification strategies to secure additional funding; 2- the implementation of a peer support and workplace wellness system to assist the integration of new employees and limit the risk of burnout; 3- the creation of a development plan for a provincial psychotherapy program for service users and workers in the sector; and 4- the development of resources and tools for the inclusion of trans and non-binary women in violence against women services in Ontario.

Through this 20-month project, Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the current and emerging needs and compounding issues facing girls, transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse youth in the community. The project will include conducting an environmental scan, developing a strategic plan, creating a measurement scorecard to evaluate progress, and establishing a comprehensive and integrated digital data management system.