Grants and Contributions

Canada Periodical Fund

Armagh will achieve this by increasing equal access to its programs and services and community education and awareness
about gender-based violence in Peel Region; sharing recommended sustainable changes and adaptations following an environmental scan with service providers; creating, distributing and marketing a resource matrix through a service mapping initiative of violence against women services to meet the needs of specific populations; and developing and disseminating education materials through community engagement, presentations and awareness social media and marketing campaigns. 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
about gender-based violence in Peel Region to support women’s equality.

This will be achieved by creating safe spaces to empower 30 racialized women and girls in Toronto east impacted by COVID-19 to become feminist leaders; raising public awareness on the impact of misogyny and gender stereotypes on women’s rights through forum meetings with participants, community leaders and policy makers, a media and social media campaign; and by holding organized dialogues with local MPs, MPPs, City Councillors, and School Trustees.

Luke's Place Support & Resource Centre for Women & Children will achieve this by (i) recognizing how the experience of diverse women with gender-based violence and access to justice challenges differ and overlap (ii) strengthening the capacity of violence against women agencies to advocate regionally and provincially through knowledge dissemination, resource development and training (iii) documenting trends in court decisions and procedures (iv) collaborating with the National Association of Women and the Law to build and resource a National Feminist Law and Policy Reform Coalition and make reform recommendations to key stakeholders and (v) expanding Luke’s Place media leadership. Collaboration with national, francophone, Indigenous and other organizations serving specific communities will ensure the diversity of women’s experience of gender-based violence is acknowledged and understood.

It will compile and analyze procurement policies and practices, develop model language for inclusion in procurement policies for engineering services, obtain endorsement and support from key stakeholders, advocate to municipal and provincial public sector entities to urge adoption of inclusive criteria in procurement for engineering services, advocate to industry associations, and promote the model language through social media and trade publications.

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.

Supporting Women's Alternatives Network (SWAN Vancouver) Society will achieve this by thorough consultation with immigrant and migrant sex workers, community-based agencies, and media consultants to identify and analyze examples of problematic reporting. SWAN Vancouver will develop surveys and produce results to feed into the creation of a media kit and guidelines for journalists. They will identify trainee media outlets and specific journalists to raise awareness with targeting media's representation of immigrant and migrant sex workers’ post pandemic.

The peer-reviewed research findings will be published by the CCPA and disseminated through mainstream and social media channels, drawing on the expertise of the CCPA communications strategists.

The objective of this project is to purchase and install a ground mounted solar system connected to the utility grid

Creation and coordinator of high quality media assets.

Expanding HeyOrca’s social media management suite offering to enable agencies to manage and grow client audiences.