Grants and Contributions

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Kingston Employment & Youth Services Inc. will achieve this by addressing systemic barriers faced by women who are racialized, Indigenous, immigrants, refugees, and living with disabilities within workplaces and the workforce in Kingston, Gananoque, Leeds & Grenville and the region, thereby improving their economic security and prosperity.

It will (i) elevate the voices and authority of immigrant, racialized and Indigenous women and women with disabilities by recruiting, training and employing a cohort of Inclusion Coaches (ii) develop and refine tools, including the Workplace Inclusion Charter that employers and workplaces can implement towards equitable inclusion of under-represented women in the workforce (iii) engage 35 regional employers in a process to identify barriers to inclusion and success of under-represented women in their workplaces and determine actions (iv) collaborate with those employers and the Inclusion Coaches and (i) implement systemic (policy or practice) changes at the workplace level. Evaluation of the impact of the charter implementation at the employer level and overall project evaluation will be conducted.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, supporting positive distribution of resources, developing networks and collaborations and changing norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

This project will engage the City of Kingston (project promotion, community engagement & connections to other municipalities) and St Lawrence College (evaluation).

Through this 30-month project, the RFNB will create regional networking and collaboration mechanisms that accelerate systemic change and strengthen leadership by Francophone women and gender minorities to ensure they participate fully in democracy and in the post-Covid feminist recovery in New Brunswick.

To achieve this, practices will be designed and deployed to enhance leadership and engagement by women and gender minorities, especially by creating action groups in each of the province’s six regions. The project will also aim to raise awareness among the public, service providers and decision makers about feminist issues by providing tools to the people directly affected by gender inequality. Finally, the RFNB will work with Acadian and Francophone civil society to disseminate the Action Plan on Gender Equality in New Brunswick.

The project will unite organizations, associations and key actors in finding multi-sectoral solutions and decompartmentalizing the different sectors to expand the scope, impact and sustainability of efforts to support gender equality.

This 18-month project will engage Black 2SLGBTQI+ organizations and communities through a national online survey, regional and national virtual roundtables and an in-person National Black 2SLGBTQI+ Summit on the potential creation of a national Black 2SLGBTQI+ organization in Canada. The project will share key data about the demographic makeup and needs of Black 2SLGBTQI+ communities and culminate in a final report that will highlight community-led insights and recommendations for implementing sustainable supports for Black 2SLGBTQI+ movements.

Through this 36-month project, the Legacy of Hope Foundation will increase its ability to prevent or address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. This will be achieved by creating a travelling exhibition and activity guide that will enable host organizations, communities, and governments across Canada (remote, rural, urban) to learn about Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and how to address it in their own environment. They will form a Project Advisory Committee comprised of Indigenous persons from various regions in Canada, that will guide the project and consultations with advocates for women’s rights, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, as well as other injustices, that can provide their unique perspectives and solutions on GBV. The committee will identify participants for dialogue sessions during the development stage of the exhibition and the activity guide, and host engagement sessions that will give communities the opportunity to share knowledge, view the exhibition and pilot the activity guide. A website will be developed and maintained to help with promotion and accessibility of these educational resources to all communities across Canada.

These project activities and engagement sessions will ensure that the exhibition and activity guide are addressing GBV through the collective lens of those who experience it at higher rates than any other population in Canada: Indigenous women and girls and the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

At the end of this project, the organization will have created tools to raise awareness of GBV to communities across Canada and provide them with the resources to address it. With these tools, learners will also gain the knowledge required to help them educate others on the topic, as well as help them contribute towards the eradication of GBV. The expectation is that this exhibition will have a minimum lifespan of 8 years.

This 42-month project will allow for the scaling-up of Shelter Movers’ promising practice, a free moving and storage service to help survivors to leave abusive households, in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. As part of the model, survivors will have access to free survivor-centred assistance to safely move them, their children, pets and belongings, along with free protection by security personnel, storage, language interpretation and pet fostering when needed.

This work will be carried out by Shelter Movers staff and volunteer movers and drivers who are specially trained and vetted to work with people who have experienced violence. Clients will be referred by local service providers, including shelters and transition homes.

Shelter Movers will also partner with local moving and truck rental companies, security agencies, law enforcement, storage facilities, cultural interpreters, and pet rescues to ensure the survivors are supported in all aspects of their move.

Additionally, Shelter Movers will engage an external evaluator to assess their processes from both a client and staff perspective, as well as evaluate the expansion process. Lastly, a plan to ensure the sustainability of the scale-up will be developed and implemented.

Through this 18-month project, Transforming Embers 2Spirit Wellness Society will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on Coast Salish land-based methodology to support Indigenous people living in southern mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island. This will be achieved by recruiting and training the Host Family (Board of Directors), developing and implementing a strategic plan, building networks and partnerships with the local 2SLGBTQQIA+ community, organizing and delivering a 2Spirit/Indigequeer Symposium as part of a baseline community needs/medicines assessment, and sharing the learning with other organizations.

This project will engage with local Indigenous/2Spirit/Indigequeer groups, Indigenous Elders and youth, and knowledge keepers to organize and deliver a Coastal 2Spirit/Indigequeer Symposium and develop Coastal 2Spirit/Indigequeer resources.

By the end of the project, Transforming Embers 2Spirit Wellness will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on Indigenous people living in southern mainland British Columbia and Vancouver Island.

Through this 42-month project, the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women, in collaboration with the other three Atlantic provinces, will develop and pilot GuysWork, a transformative school-based program for male identified students across elementary, middle, and high school grades designed to help boys navigate the intense pressures and expectations around masculinity that shape their identities as men.

This program will support and strengthen efforts to engage young men as allies in reducing Gender Based Violence (GBV) and increase capacity for action. The work will help grow a population of young men who want to challenge and change social norms that contribute to GBV. By implementing this promising practice of teaching healthy masculinity in the Atlantic Region and ensuring a formal evaluation, the model will then be shared for possible replication by other jurisdictions.

Through this 36-month project, Women’s Studies will increase their organizational capacity to be able to provide Gender-based Violence prevention programming for Indigenous women and girls. This will be achieved through three project components: establishing and maintaining organizational leadership; increasing the ability to ensure ongoing funding and managing funds effectively; and researching, developing and implementing best practices for GBV decolonization.

This project will allow for Women’s Studies to advance the grassroots voices and priorities of Indigenous women and girls to support real and meaningful systemic changes in Canada. Organizational capacity will be increased by strengthening and maintaining the leadership of the Board of Directors and staff through training and knowledge-building activities. These activities will inform the updated bylaws, policies and decision-making practices to ensure: their compliance with a decolonizing GBV+ analysis; the creation of a fundraising department and committee (including volunteers); and the review of best practices of Canadian women’s and Indigenous women’s GBV organizations in order to compile and implement best organizational practices for WMST as a decolonizing GBV organization.

This 7-month project will strengthen the capacity of Kemptville Pride and networks to advance 2SLGBTQ2 equality. This will be achieved by building managerial capacity and strengthening collaboration among organizations.

At the end of the project, the organization will have recruited additional diverse and qualified board members and volunteers and created an on-boarding manual for recruiting and training new board members. Further, the organization will have created a committee of partner organizations within the North Grenville area, to support improved collaboration.

Through this 43-month project, Empowering Indigenous Women for Stronger Communities Inc. (EIWFSC) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on Peer Facilitators and Youth in the rural areas around Stephenville, NL. This will be achieved by building a strong organizational governance structure: developing a clear set of policies and procedures, by-laws and constitution, and a strategic plan.

The project will aim to build the capacity of both the board of directors and Indigenous men and women Peer Facilitators from a leadership development perspective, and to foster collaborative working relationships between these groups and the Indigenous community. EIWFSC will also engage with Indigenous youth to develop a Lateral Violence training program. All of these initiatives are to be carried out through a GBA Plus lens, especially where community consultation and project delivery are concerned.

At the end of the project, EIWFSC will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on peer-to-peer learning and leadership development in Indigenous men and youth.