Grants and Contributions

Through this 30-month project, the Kaleo Collective (KC) aims to expand the reach of the Single Mom Resource Course (SMRC) to strengthen of the GBV sector. This project will address the ongoing challenges faced by single mothers, including the challenges associated with all types of violence, emotional and financial poverty.

Through this 30-month project, the Health Equity Alliance of Nova Scotia (HEAL NS) will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. ACNS will address increasing its own 2SLGBTQI+ capacity generally, but especially queer women’s communities not traditionally served, and transgender communities for whom they recently began developing targeted programming. It will address intersectionality regarding cultural competency and safety for ACNS to be better able to serve Indigenous, racialized, and new immigrant, and disabled individuals and community members.

The project will include a provincial 2SLGBTQIA+ Health and Healthcare Access Needs Survey, designed to clarify existing patterns and challenges to inform future programs and initiatives, the development of capacity and resources for a future 2SLGBTQIA+ Cultural Competency Training Program for healthcare workers, the strengthening of IT technical expertise to better utilize web and social resources, and the building of a robust fund development capacity to support future work.

Through this 30-month project, Maskan Family Association (MFA) will scale the Leading Change curriculum to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address intergenerational domestic violence, specifically within immigrant communities in Edmonton and Calgary. To do so, the project activities include the revision of the existing materials with partners to inform and develop a culturally relevant and responsive version of the Leading Change curriculum for immigrant youth, engaging and empowering immigrant youth to identify their potential to create and lead change through discussions, workshops, training, an ongoing Community of Practice, and meetings with various stakeholders and team members.

Through this 42-month project, BIPOC USHR PEI Inc. will conduct research that will help improve Gender-Based Violence (GBV) services for immigrant/migrant women and other racialized women and gender-diverse peoples. It will address their experiences on GBV, the barriers experienced by the community, and their suggestions and advice on how to improve services, supports, and prevention interventions. To do so, the project will include consulting with community members to inform the project and collecting qualitative data with immigrant/migrant women and other racialized women and gender-diverse peoples who have experienced GBV.

This federal–provincial/territorial agreement is to support eligible organizations providing existing crisis hotlines responding to gender-based violence (GBV) that are experiencing a rise in demand for service provision due to the COVID-19 pandemic by agreeing on the term of payments for federal funding intended for these eligible organizations.

Upgrade marine travel lift

Training, raising awareness among and providing technical support to 30 women from rural areas regarding agricultural cultivation techniques and how to sell their harvests to increase agricultural empowerment in Comoran regions.

Training, raising awareness among and supporting the socio-professional integration of 20 Comoran girls to help empower them through digital technologies.

Reliance*1 is a program that provides professional support to young artists and cultural stakeholders in the Comoros. The purpose of the project is to consolidate and structure the cultural and artistic sectors.

“Unsilenced Voices: Empowering Women in Belarusian Democracy”- promote women’s political activism in Belarus through an exhibition documenting Belarusian women’s protest movement.