Grants and Contributions

This 14-month project will strengthen the capacity of Euphorie dans le genre-Fierté Trans to promote LGBTQ2 equality. The project's objectives will be achieved through the following activities: ensuring the sustainability of the organization’s financial health by diversifying funding sources, strengthening collaboration among organizations serving trans populations, and establishing a network of trans organizations in Quebec.

This 37-month project with the Sudbury Women’s Centre (SWC) will develop and implement promising practices through the establishment of the Saving Our Sisters (SOS) Alliance Human Trafficking Intervention Initiative to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for underserved at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking in Northern Ontario.

This will be achieved by 1) performing outreach and leading support for victims/survivors of human trafficking through the Saving Our Sisters (SOS) Alliance and Northern Ontario Human Trafficking Intervention Initiative, as well as providing intervention training; and 2) developing and implementing a Healing Program, including one-on-one counselling and/or cultural advising, and group support.

At the end of the project, the organization will have 1) established the SOS Alliance and Human Trafficking Intervention Initiative in Northern Ontario to improve leadership for better outcomes for victims/survivors; 2) identified and implemented potential actions/initiatives to address gaps for underserved populations; and 3) enhanced collaboration to include Indigenous agencies and human trafficking survivors to address the need for safe, collaborative, and protective intervention strategies and empowerment supports in Northern Ontario.

The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

Component two focuses on building the capacity of government and civil society organizations to prevent and respond to online facilitated sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Project activities include: (1) creating a database and profiling system for early detection and reporting of cases; (2) organizing an online support group to provide survivors with access to legal, health, and psychosocial support services; and (3) engaging youth organizations in developing solutions that tackles online sexual exploitation and abuse.

Project activities include: (1) undertaking and communicating summaries of public opinion polls in English and Russian; (2) producing research on gender and human rights; (3) convening policy roundtables including with embassy representatives; (4) briefing representatives of international governments, organizations and donors, and briefing Belarusian media/ NGOs/ political actors; and (5) producing Chatham House ‘expert comments’ and multimedia and social media products.

This 32-month project with Covenant House Vancouver will develop and implement intervention practices that will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for youth aged 16 to 24 at risk of, or survivors of, sexual exploitation and human trafficking in Vancouver.

This will be achieved by researching, drafting, distributing and evaluating a practice guide, tool kit, and training model to support frontline staff and community partners to provide empowerment supports for trafficked youth.

At the end of the project the organization will have strengthened policies and practices with respect to human trafficking and sexual exploitation of youth. CHV staff will be fully trained and supported to implement best practices, and the tool kit generated by the project will be shared at a training session for community partners.

The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

This 38-month project with the Nova Scotia Native Women's Association will develop and implement the Nova Scotia Indigenous Human Trafficking Prevention Strategy, a promising practice that will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking in Nova Scotia.

This will be achieved by creating a prevention advisory committee; by creating and implementing prevention program activities, workshops and services; by creating a more comprehensive circle of support for organizations and individuals; and by evaluating the efficacy of coordinated access as a meaningful community-based tool to combat human trafficking.

At the end of the project, the organization will have the capacity to provide trauma-informed programs and services for victims and survivors, created and delivered in a culturally relevant manner, utilizing Mi’kmaw language and practices as the foundation.

The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

This 12-month project will engage leaders from various francophone minority communities across the country in a conversation about each person's key role in the fight against toxic masculinity and francophobia. This project will host the first national forum to address toxic masculinity and francophobia. Mobilized around the values of cooperation, dialogue and collective action, more than 70 leaders from coast to coast (presidents, CEOs and representatives of organizations, community leaders, student council leaders, etc.) will participate in this two-day forum. A manifesto will be developed by participants, which will present positive actions and recommendations to help eradicate toxic masculinity and francophobia.

This 24-month project will convene an alliance of national racialized, immigrant and refugee women’s organizations Canada. The alliance will develop a project charter to guide its engagement with grassroots and other racialized, immigrant and refugee women’s group to map out needs, interests and viability. The alliance will carry out a needs assessment, develop an action plan to advance racialized, immigrant and refugee women's prosperity and address priority challenges.

White Ribbon will also work to engage youth (especially young men) in their communities to build their capacity to challenge rigid gender norms and stereotypes. Through a targeted youth engagement strategy (e.g., social media, workshops, events), youth will add their voices and increase the dialogue to influence their peers to address harmful gender norms, attitudes and behaviours.

At the end of the project, the organization will have increased knowledge and capacity to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and established and/or strengthened partnerships and collaboration to support the LGBTQ2 movement.