Grants and Contributions

Through this 31-month project, Women Speak Up will build its capacity to empower women and to advance gender equality. It will address both strategy and delivery to be an effective contributor to the network of women's organizations in Ottawa and Toronto, and to the women's movement in Canada. The project will: 1) improve organizational governance; 2) develop tools and practices to increase financial sustainability; 3) advance organizational HR through recruitment, recognition, building team culture, and training; 4) develop a strategic plan and the organizational capacity to deliver it (project management, performance measurement, IT, DEI, GBA+); and 5) engage with their community to better understand its needs and to better position Women Speak Up to help meet those needs.

Through this 20-month systemic change project, Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan Inc (WESK) will scale their Saskatchewan Women Entrepreneurship Charter Project to advance women’s economic security.

Through this 24-month systemic change project, the Saint John Learning Exchange will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within policies and practices that impact women and gender diverse individuals living in poverty by using Community-Based Participatory Action Research methods to create opportunities for women with lived experience to generate knowledge and take action to change unjust systems, policies, and practices that impact their lives. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 19-month project, Girls Inc of Northern Alberta will build its capacity to advance gender equality.

Through this 31-month project, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Center (DEWC) will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address technology-based risks, gaps, and barriers to growth. The project will include a technology asset audit, a needs assessment, research into technology-based solutions for organizational pain points, a prioritized plan for implementation, staff training, and evaluation.

Through this 19-month systemic change project, Services intégrés pour l’emploi will top-up an initial Enterprise égalitaire certification project to advance women’s economic security and prosperity. The initial project, which focused on the Arthabaska RCM, will be extended to the Bécancour, Nicolet-Yamaska and L’Érable RCMs. It will address systemic barriers faced by women in non-traditional fields or seeking employment in male-dominated sectors. To that end, the project will raise awareness among businesses and assist them through, among other things, policy reviews and training, so they can obtain the Entreprise égalitaire certification recognizing that they apply values of equality between men and women, fight harassment, welcome their employees in an inclusive manner and provide ergonomic workstations.

Marketing strategy: The project aims to implement a marketing strategy for a company specialized in the design of screen-free educational technology products for children.

Develop a unique riverside ecotourism, glamping retreat

This project will involve hiring a skilled Lead Engineer to pilot the development of the Pathfinder 365 code stack, and to manage and grow a team under them.

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