Grants and Contributions

It will strengthen DAWN’s ability to drive systemic change by ensuring the continuity and sustainability of its mandate while enhancing its financial management processes, increasing its membership, updating its core feminist disability guide, and deepening its expertise on key policy and human rights areas, specifically to address the needs of women, girls and gender-diverse people with disability. Key activities include conducting an organizational needs assessment and developing and implementing an action plan; conducting an audit of the financial reporting and budget management processes and identifying improvement to be implemented; developing and implementing a strategic recruitment plan; elaborating and disseminating DAWN’s core feminist disability guide; and updating its research on lived experiences and rights of women, girls and gender-diverse individuals with disabilities.

It will address the need to update and deepen the intersectional feminist analysis that guides some of the organization's core foundations. The project will include identifying gaps and issues that need to be updated according to an intersectional feminist approach specific to the CALACS; developing the tools and acquiring the feminist knowledge needed to update the organization's practices, policies and tools; and updating, implementing and evaluating these practices, policies and tools according to the intersectional feminist approach that was developed.

Through this 31-month project, Elizabeth Fry New Brunswick (EFNB) will help advance women’s economic and leadership opportunities through systemic change. This project will increase leadership opportunities for women from underrepresented backgrounds, implement consensus-building measures that better account for the unique needs of those who face intersecting discrimination and oppression that reproduce structural inequities, create a systematic space for all voices to be heard and have influence, and generate a model for nonprofits to move away from patriarchal structures of governance to systematically make space for Indigenous and other ways of knowing. They will collaborate with other community non-profit organizations to develop new and updated approaches that support more equitable and inclusive practices to decision making and distribution of power.

An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of this systemic change project.

It will address gaps in organizational efficacy, sustainability, and inclusivity to foster a healthy and positive organizational culture that values teamwork, creativity, and a commitment to the feminist cause. The project will include assessing the effectiveness of the leadership team, implementing an evaluation process of the organization’s core values, developing human resource strategies and a training plan that reflect an intersectional feminist perspective.

It will address and respond to the historical marginalization of Black women and non-binary individuals within QC's feminist movement. By integrating the lived experiences and perspectives of these communities, the project seeks to empower Harambec to better mobilize institutional and community resources against the specific challenges of misogynoir. The project will include a five-year strategic plan and bilingual board governance policy manual that embodies Black feminist values, the creation of an advisory governance committee, and training sessions for board members and staff to increase their capacity for leadership and understanding of non-profit governance.

The project will address industry-specific needs in their staff and organization to ensure they are well-positioned to support Feminist theatre in the GTA. The project will develop stronger leadership in its executive and department-specific trainings across the organization.

This 33-month project will facilitate the development of a feminist framework to monitor Canada's compliance with international human standards and provide recommendations to ensure that domestic laws and policies encourage women and girls to participate in leadership and decision-making roles.

Supporting feminist associations to reform the penal code (elective abortion) through film and supporting film professionals in the fight against GBV.

The project will achieve this by 1) training and mentoring racialized newcomer/immigrant women to become Feminist Leaders; 2) mobilizing racialized newcomer and immigrant women and their allies to identify barriers to employment and develop strategies to address employment inequalities; 3) developing a social media campaign to raise public awareness; and 4) facilitating dialogue with Members of Parliament, Members of Provincial Government and employers to advocate for policy changes that enhance economic security for racialized newcomer and immigrant women.

Through this 21-month project, Women’s Studies Online (WMST) will build capacity by addressing the over-representation of Indigenous women as victims of poverty and violence, and the under-representation of autonomous Indigenous women’s organizations.

This project will enhance organizational capacity by evaluating and advancing its mission, values, and principles to ensure effectiveness and efficiency. This includes establishing a teaching and learning center to enhance learning, teaching, and evaluation efforts. Additionally, the project will expand collaborative efforts within Canada’s provinces and territories by establishing volunteers in each region. Lastly, it will enhance infrastructural capacity by transitioning to a hybrid online/offline model to reach women in rural, remote, and on-reserve communities with limited internet access.