Grants and Contributions

With the Supplemental funds and extension provided in early 2026, the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre will implement their strategic plan including mapping next steps, evaluation plan and will create and implement a community safety plan to strengthen organizational capacity, enhance program effectiveness and will deepen community collaboration.

Through this 12-month project, Why We March will develop community-informed initiatives to overcome key issues facing the 2SLGBTQ+ community in London, Ontario. This will be achieved by researching significant topics for the 2SLGBTQ2 community and planning the Community Conversations series; hosting eight to twelve Community Conversations series events; and reporting and analyzing the attendance at the events.

By the end of this project, Why We March will have supported a community-informed project to address key issues facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities and advance equality for 2SLGBTQ+ people.

To achieve this, Rainbow Refugee Society will work with their partners across Canada. They will consult with service providers, legal professionals, and LGBTQI newcomers to identify the individual and systemic barriers to social determinants of health that they encounter.

Through this 24-month project, Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Kamloops, British Columbia. This will be achieved through succession planning; creating a professional development plan (including trauma informed care, GBA+ and GBV capacity strengthening), an internal data management systems improvement plan and updating current internal systems training.

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

The supplemental funds received will be used to enhance the internal data management systems improvement plan and updating current internal systems training.

This will be achieved by strategic planning, analyzing gaps in GBV programming, developing a succession plan to ensure GBV knowledge transfer and conducting a Feasibility Study for a future urban Indigenous women’s health and wellness centre that will include GBV programming. LFVAS will also develop partnerships to inform GBV program development, incorporate GBV training into their organizational manuals and conduct community engagement sessions to build knowledge and evidence to end GBV.

Through this 24-month project, Northwest Territories / Nunavut Council of Friendship Centres will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people.

This will be achieved by collaborating with its member Friendship Centres in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to increase GBV awareness, prevention, and response skills of member organizations through workshops and training designed in consultation with local women’s and 2SLGBTQI+ groups. Impact will be sustained through the development and implementation of a GBV training manual at Friendship Centres.

This 10-month project aims to build organizational capacity so that the organization can continue to promote social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be strengthened through consultations and coordination to conduct strategic planning.

Through this 36-month project, Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle (WAWC) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, and girls with a focus on strengthening WAWC’s capacity in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. This will be achieved by conducting a needs assessment to determine internal organizational needs and actioning the findings in five areas: strategic planning, digital and computer strategy and infrastructure, internal organizational capacity, governance, and staff training including violence prevention.

This project will engage the Yukon Status of Women Council, to provide mentorship to the Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle.

By the end of the project, Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls with a focus on organizational sustainability and capacity development to better prevent violence and provide services in the Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, and surrounding areas.

This 4-year federal-provincial agreement supports Saskatchewan's implementation of its actions under the National Action Plan (NAP) to end gender-based violence (GBV) so that collectively, the vision of the NAP to End GBV can be advanced - "A Canada free of gender-based violence. A Canada that supports victims, survivors and their families, no matter where they live."

This 4-year federal–provincial agreement supports Newfoundland and Labrador’s implementation of its actions under the National Action Plan (NAP) to end gender-based violence (GBV) so that collectively, the vision of the NAP to End GBV can be advanced - “A Canada free of gender-based violence. A Canada that supports victims, survivors and their families, no matter where they live.”