Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage - Local Arts and Heritage Festivals

Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage - Community Historical Anniversaries Programming

Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage - Local Arts and Heritage Festivals

Community Support, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program - Multi Inter-Action - Events

This 24-month project will develop an enhanced community and workplace experience for the Signal for Help Responders learning journey and increase the reach of the initiative to better respond to survivors.

To do this, the organization will secure partnerships with new and established partners and secure an external evaluator to determine methodologies for tracking and evaluation. They will work collaboratively with partners and the evaluator to analyze the evaluation data, share promising practices, and adapt and optimize the learning material's content.

They will develop tailored bystander intervention tools in partnership with workplaces and communities to help bystanders better respond to survivors, and train volunteers to coach them to launch peer violence prevention projects.

10-15 gender diverse artists, content creators and gender justice advocates will share knowledge and promising practices to strengthen culture change efforts and end the normalization of
gendered violence. CWF will also undertake knowledge exchange activities with national reach to transform cultures of stigma to cultures of support for survivors.

Finally, CWF will share lessons from the scale up of the project by distributing the evaluation learnings across national and international partners to contribute to the culture change.

Through this 14-month project, TransCare+ will develop community-informed initiatives to overcome key issues facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities, with a focus on Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+ communities, people of colour, disabled folks, people living in a northern, remote, or rural area in Kingston and southern/western Ontario, Thunder Bay and northwestern Ontario, Sudbury and northeastern Ontario, and rural eastern Ontario. This will be achieved by 1) establishing project governance, 2) conducting a comprehensive environmental and resource scan, 3) developing an interactive e-learning platform, 4) engaging rurally located queer and gender diverse people in care navigation, 5) conducting data collection, monitoring, and evaluation of tools, and 6) engaging community in ongoing education and knowledge-sharing.

This project will engage with the following community collectives/organizations 1) Rural Ontario Community of Queer Youth (ROCQY), 2) Rainbow Collective of Thunder-Bay (RCTB), 3) TG Innerselves (TGI), and 4) Rural, POC, and Queer (RB&Q) to be part of the steering committee for this project along with representation from TransCare+.

By the end of this project, TransCare+ will have supported a community-informed project to address key issues facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities and advance equality for 2SLGBTQ+ people, with a focus on Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+ communities, people of colour, disabled folks, people living in a northern, remote, or rural area.

Through this 15-month project, The KLUB Community Centre will develop community-informed initiatives to overcome key issues facing 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be achieved by providing educational workshops to community leaders, service providers and front-line staff (medical, educational and social fields). The themes of the workshops will be informed through engagement with the 2SLGBTQI+ community to identify barriers and inform educational content.

By the end of this project, The KLUB Community Centre will have supported a community-informed project to address key issues facing 2SLGBTQI+ communities and advance equality for 2SLGBTQI+ people.

Through this 38-month project, Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people, with a focus on individuals impacted by GBV in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon. This will be achieved by developing and implementing administrative, human resource (HR), occupational health and safety policies, and exploring and developing an enhanced governance structure.

By the end of the project, Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV by developing clear and concise job descriptions, an HR and financial policy that will allow it to continue to provide health and healing services to a northern indigenous population that suffer from the generational trauma of residential schools and other government actions. These documents will allow the organization to recruit and retain indigenous employees. Through this project, an occupational health and safety policy will be prepared, as required by the Worker’s Safety and Compensation Commission (WSCC), for its urban wellness camp that will allow the camp to continue to operate in a safe manner. Finally, the project will allow Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation to map out its current and future governance structure, incorporating traditional values and beliefs.

The Commercial Women’s Sport Initiative aims to improve economic security and prosperity for women through women’s professional sport by: shifting mindsets on the economic value of women’s professional sport; increasing motivation to invest in this space; and increasing capacity to embed intersectional gender equity in the development of women’s professional sport.

To accomplish these objectives, Canadian Women & Sport is working with Canadian Tire Corporation, Boston Consulting Group, Research and Consulting Firm, our Advisory Group, and a network of collaborators to deliver a two-year advocacy initiative. The project design reflects the following key activities:

A. Development of a national network of champions who are directly impacted by the issue, key influencers, and decision-makers in the target audiences.

B. Phase 2 Primary Research. Work with a leading national Research and Consulting firm to collect primary unique Canadian based research data that will articulate the unique business and social value proposition for women’s professional sport and related best practices in gender equity. This research will be based on the data gap analysis found in Phase 2. It will have GBA+ lens implemented throughout the process. Outputs of the Phase 2 Primary research will include a whitepaper (or equivalent) and Toolkit with best practices on building equitable and economically successful professional sport for women.
 
C. Delivery of a communications campaign to engage the national network in the research and the associated calls to action via digital communications collateral.

D. Outreach to strategically significant entities and decision-makers to generate targeted engagement and to support the application of the ideas and best practices in their institutional context. Quarterly release of new insights, with a focus on knowledge translation that generates engagement.

E. Ongoing measurement and evaluation with quarterly analysis to identify learnings to integrate. (Ongoing for the duration of the project.)

Through this 38-month project, Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence against Indigenous women and girls. This will be achieved by implementing a wholistic approach, with violence prevention as a consideration, in reviewing their current strategic plan, developing a strategic plan for 2023-2028, updating their constitution and bylaws, developing and implementing a board onboarding protocol, creating a capacity development and succession plan, and developing policies and procedures that align with new worker’s compensation legislation.

By the end of the project, Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society will have completed an assessment of their organizational gaps and created the necessary structure to ensure its long-term sustainability. This strengthened capacity will ultimately support Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women and girls, with a focus on Northern Indigenous women and girls.