Grants and Contributions

The project will engage First Nations Veterans to inform the development of culturally relevant programming and services in southern Manitoba. First Nations Veterans are an underserved group who will benefit from community building, increased access to social supports and systems navigation.

Through this eight-month project, Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia CIC (GACNS) will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be achieved by addressing legal barriers to transitioning in Nova Scotia and providing queer youth with policy and governance education. This project will focus on the Nova Scotia Vital Statistics Act and Regulations; reducing wait times and costs associated with legal transitions; and creating mechanisms to address governmental, non-governmental, and private refusal to make documents, applications, and other means of providing personal information align with the Nova Scotian and Canadian human rights acts.

It will also seek to create, in partnership with community experts, a comprehensive education program for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth regarding policy and governance, providing them the tools to follow in our path towards inclusive policy and governance. GACNS will achieve this objective through internal policy consultations, policy drafting, workshopping, policy outreach, educational content and platform development, and continued consulting with public entities.

Through this 32-month project, The Manitoba Association of Friendship Centres Inc. will increase their ability to prevent and address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. This will be achieved by conducting outreach and awareness-raising campaigns in eleven communities throughout the province of Manitoba, where Manitoba’s Friendship Centres are located, by developing and delivering culturally appropriate training to staff and volunteers to enhance their understanding of gender-based violence, by developing and offering a public gathering where speakers, staff, and Centre delegates can learn from one another including survivors of gender-based violence, by establishing a network of educators and experts in their field that can provide support and services to Manitoba’s Friendship Centres, and by developing and implementing a comprehensive policy and procedural manual that will establish ongoing support for Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people.

By the end of the project, MAFC will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.

Through this 32-month project, Alberta Native Friendship Centres Association (ANFCA) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Alberta’s 21 Friendship Centre communities. This will be achieved by building partnerships and networks, through the exchange of knowledge, the development of an Indigenous toolkit and training sessions. More specifically, through this project ANFCA will develop a forum of networks and training sessions to strengthen capacity and advance GBV work within organizations and communities.

The project will review and develop existing GBV educational materials to create a new Indigenous best practices toolkit and a risk framework pilot for organizations working in or seeking to work within GBV. The organization will collaborate with the ANFCA GBV working group, community stakeholders and participate on provincial government at various tables on their capacity-building activities. Furthermore, promotional and marketing material for their 16 days of action on GBV awareness will be developed and distributed to their Friendship Centres (FC) and the communities they serve in Alberta.

At the end of this project. The ANFCA will have strengthened its capacity to prevent and address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people while also providing resources and guidance to partners across Alberta.

The objective of the OF is to assist persons with disabilities prepare for, obtain and keep employment or become self-employed, thereby increasing their economic participation and independence.

The objectives for CSC are to create, promote and facilitate access to service opportunities that are meaningful to young Canadian, and support lasting civic engagement, as well as to provide youth with life and work skills.

The objective of the OF is to assist persons with disabilities prepare for, obtain and keep employment or become self-employed, thereby increasing their economic participation and independence.

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

Equipment acquisition: The project aims to improve productivity and increase the production capacity of a company specializing in the design, production and purification of intermediary and carrier molecules (messenger RNA).