Grants and Contributions

Through this 30-month project, The Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre will scale the Next Gen Men boy's afterschool programs and community-based groups to the Yukon to strengthen the GBV sector. The project will scale to men and boys living in rural and urban Yukon. It will address a gap in supports for men and boys to confidently engage with anti-violence activism and allyship, reflect on harmful masculinities and norms, and access comprehensive sexual education that includes themes of gender-based violence. To do so, the project will train male ally mentors to activate men and boys against gender-based violence, deliver Next Gen Men Boy's Groups, establish the Yukon Sex Education Hub, and launch the Young Feminists program. The Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre will create and deliver knowledge dissemination materials and deliver a program showcase event to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

This 42-month cost-sharing project aims to increase the economic security and prosperity of women in Canada, particularly among those from equity-deserving groups. The LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact (LEAP) will define, select, and scale innovative, high-impact programs across a cohort of not-for-profit Canadian organizations working to address the systemic barriers to women’s economic well-being. Programs and services will address one or more of the key barriers to women’s economic well-being: basic needs and social supports, education and training, the opportunity cost of caregiving, and workforce opportunity.

LEAP has secured financial and in-kind commitments from private sector donors in the amount of $3.425M, for a total project budget of $6.925M.

The project will define, select, and scale programs up to 4x-10x that address key barriers to economic security through investing in a cohort of eight (8) social ventures focused on women’s economic well-being. LEAP will provide scaling strategy and execution support together with pro-bono professional services from best-in-class private sector partnerships. The project will also distribute funding in support of targeted scaling strategies across the cohort, measure the impact of the program against LEAP’s Impact Framework, and disseminate knowledge across public, private, and social sectors.

Through this 30-month project, Living in Community Society will scale its community development model, strengthening the gender-based violence (GBV) sector by addressing how sex workers across British Columbia experience GBV.

Through this 42-month project, Woman Abuse Council of Toronto will develop and put in place a model of coordinated support for survivors of economic abuse to strengthen the GBV sector, based on the Domestic and Economic Abuse Project (DEAP) model, already successfully piloted in the UK. It will address a gap in the capacity and financial services of one urban and one rural community to help them prevent and respond to economic abuse. To do so, the project will include establishing partnerships in these two community pilot sites, developing and adapting a model based on the DEAP model to address the needs of the diverse populations in Ontario, and implementing the program in these pilot sites.

Through this 36-month project, Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society will build stronger capacity of queer community organizations and networks to advance queer equality. It will address how the organization develops financial sustainability. The project will include developing and putting in place HR processes and systems to hire grants committee members, creating a grants committee that will research, learn and develop resources on how to find and write funding proposals and how to develop other financial sustainability options and funding partnerships with the private sector, creating two strategic plans for the committee, gathering feedback, evaluating and updating the resources, and developing an online resource library to train new committee members and the Sher Vancouver team.

Through this 30-month project, Interval House of Hamilton will scale the MentorAction program to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address gaps in gender-based violence prevention training in the male-dominated skilled trades sector across Ontario. To do so, the project will deliver GBV prevention training within workplaces and establish training networks throughout skills and trades unions in Ontario.

Through this 30-month project, the Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services (AASAS) will develop and put in place an online third-party system for reporting sexual assault and abuse in Alberta to strengthen the GBV sector.

Strengthening STEM/ Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Creating an Innovation Hub for Women and Girls in Tonga

The organisation's staff will engage Canadian SME’s interested in developing new technologies for use in aquaculture and provide early stage, proof-of-concept research and consultation to determine the feasibility of the new products/assays for the aquaculture market. This proof-of-concept work will be key to determining the likelihood of commercial success for new technologies.

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