Grants and Contributions

A Flower - 100 Years of Remembering

This 31-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to address from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. The Fédération des femmes acadiennes de la Nouvelle-Écosse will actively contribute to Nova Scotia’s economic recovery from a feminist and Francophone perspective that reflects the province’s rural/urban duality. To achieve this, the organization plans to create an economic recovery plan, develop and implement an action plan addressing the identified issues, and carry out an awareness and communication campaign aimed at organization and business leaders and policymakers.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, and by expanding networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change in support of women’s equality.

The numerous and varied partners involved in this project will actively share their knowledge by participating in the stakeholder committee, supporting communications or providing key expertise. The organization will conduct an internal assessment over the entire course of the project, and will analyze the progress and results achieved against the Gender Results Framework.

This 31-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Restigouche CBDC inc. will seek to support an intersectional feminist response to COVID-19 that centers on the lived experiences of rural women from the Restigouche and Avignon regions, following the principles of GBA+. They will achieve this by creating an advisory board, developing a needs assessment report, an action plan and an evaluation plan, advancing inclusive policies and practices with new tools and resources, increasing networks and collaboration as well as sharing the knowledge to accelerate systemic changes to improve women’s economic security and prosperity post-COVID.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices and supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power to support women’s equality.

This project will bring together the Restigouche and Avignon regions’ women and girls with lived experience, as well as local businesses, private sector and other sectors across these regions to document the challenges experienced due to the pandemic, and to lead the dissemination of key recommendations for policy and programs towards a recovery from the impacts of COVID-19.

This 24-month project will develop and implement a consent campaign and a network of youth advocates comprised of women and men to address the root causes of gender-based violence on university campuses. We Worthy Women will achieve this by engaging with students and universities to identify barriers and needs, by working with male students and faculty to become champions in ending sexual and gender-based violence, and by developing a network of youth advocates to collaborate during and beyond the project.

At the end of the project, the organization will have developed a promising practice which will strengthen a culture of consent on Atlantic Canadian university campuses, increase the number of men involved in ending sexual violence on campus, and create a cross-provincial network of students to mobilize resources and drive real change.

Partners involved come from diverse areas of expertise and will advise and support We Worthy Women at all stages of the project. Collective Action, an activism platform, will be utilized to assist the organization in sharing information collected from the consent campaign, and in calling for action and support from institutions around sexual violence prevention at Atlantic Canadian universities.

This 31-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women’s Network PEI will achieve this by enhancing collaboration across women’s and feminist organizations in Prince Edward Island on issues related to gender equality. The organization will create a Feminist Activism Committee to identify priority and emergent needs to be addressed collectively, will create an Action Plan that will guide the work of the committee, and will sustain partnerships with stakeholders and decision makers to initiate calls to action.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, and by increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change to support women’s equality.

Partners involved in the committee are well known to the organization and represent a variety of groups in Prince Edward Island. This project will bring together self-identified women leaders in nonprofit organizations to work collaboratively to enhance their ability to advocate for systemic change regarding policies and procedures that impact them. Women’s Network PEI will aim to maintain the Feminist Activism Committee beyond the length of the project and build up membership for maximal impact.

This 30-month project will develop and implement a consent campaign and a network of youth advocates comprised of women and men to address the root causes of gender-based violence.
on university campuses. We Worthy Women will achieve this by engaging with students and universities to identify barriers and needs, by working with the athletic community in ending sexual and gender-based violence, and by developing a network of youth advocates to collaborate during and beyond the project.

At the end of the project, the organization will have developed a promising practice which will strengthen a culture of consent on Atlantic Canadian university campuses, increase the number of men involved in ending sexual violence on campus, and create a cross-provincial network of students to mobilize resources and drive real change.

Partners involved come from diverse areas of expertise and will advise and support We Worthy Women at all stages of the project. New/Mode, an activism platform, will be utilized to assist the organization in sharing information collected from the consent campaign, and in calling for action and support from institutions around sexual violence prevention at Atlantic Canadian universities.

The supplemental funding will be used to offer additional workshops and event speakers as part of their consent campaign to create a productive dialogue around consent and work to challenge harmful gender norms on campus.

To support business needs while recovering from COVID-19

Accelerate business scale-up and growth in Alberta

To support business needs while recovering from COVID-19

Enhance the quality of an existing tourism accommodations facility