Grants and Contributions

To support business needs while recovering from COVID-19

To support business needs while recovering from COVID-19

To support business needs while recovering from COVID-19

New Veterans Memorial Kitigan Zibi

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Kamloops and District Elizabeth Fry Society will achieve this by building a roundtable of community partners, creating a GBA+ informed report on local systemic barriers for gender equality and needs in the women serving sector, addressing needs through community collaboration, enhancing community-based research, and delivering an awareness campaign.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, advancing inclusive policies and practices, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

The project will create a developmental evaluation framework to measure success, and a workshop curriculum that will be launched through an awareness campaign to contribute to systemic change. Key partners Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre and Kamloops Y Women’s Emergency Shelter will provide project leadership through the roundtable, which will reflect a full feminist intersectional range of organizations from the community, including immigrant serving, disability support services, LGBTQ2A+, and First Nations.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women Healing for Change MB Inc. will achieve this by establishing a participatory action research project, which will include building on provincial networks to consolidate policy and program analysis utilizing a GBA+ lens. The intention is to reweave and transform the Manitoba social safety net. A transformation action strategy will be developed collaboratively with stakeholders in 5 social policy areas. The organization will work with government officials, political leaders, unions, and other stakeholders to build agreement and implementation on a shared vision for a COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 social safety net for Manitoba.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices; increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change; supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power; and addressing persistent and harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

Key partners will include Fearless R2W and West Central Women’s Resource Centre, amongst others. Additional networks and coalitions will be engaged in each of the five areas to support the transformation of the social safety net, including the development of the action strategy.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to adress the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Queer Yukon Society will achieve this by developing educational resources and a resource database, strengthening and increasing regional network collaboration, engaging women, girls and gender diverse peoples with lived experiences who have needed to access support services, and incorporating focus groups and surveys to identify and change discriminatory policies within community organizations.
At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate
systemic change and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women's equality.
This project will host 10 focus groups, 15 individual interviews, and three annual surveys with the clients of Yukon Women’s Organizations that will inform an annual action plan on LGBTQIA2S+ issues for women’s organizations in the Yukon to address harmful systemic homophobic and transphobic policies. Partnerships with Yukon Women’s Coalition, Yukon Status of Women Council and Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre will be enhanced, and in-tandem, community-based approaches will be implemented to address challenges and reduce gender discrimination.

This 30-month project will develop and implement training for journalists on the responsible reporting of gender-based violence (GBV) and gendered issues in the media to address the root causes of gender-based violence. Women's Place (St. Catharines & District) Inc. will achieve this by performing baseline research of local media reporting on GBV; consulting and interviewing journalists, people with GBV lived experience, equity seeking groups (LGBTQIA2+, Indigenous, and racialized people, people with disabilities, migrants and newcomers) and experts on GBV; developing a training package which will include a journalist guide and a documentary; delivering training to target groups; performing pre and post-training interviews as well as follow-up research of local media reporting on GBV to determine training effectiveness.

At the end of the project, the organization will have developed a promising practice that aims to promote gender equality and diversity in news media content; enhance news media capacity to appropriately and responsibly address GBV; and increase the representation of women and gender-diverse people as experts and leaders in news media.

This project will engage with consultants to conduct research on region-specific gender representation and gender-based issue reporting in Niagara. This organization serves the North-west area of the region, their sister shelter, Women's Place of South Niagara, serves the South-east area of the region and will be integral in the delivery of the program to all media outlets in Niagara.

To support business needs while recovering from COVID-19

To support business needs while recovering from COVID-19