Grants and Contributions

This 29 month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. River East Transcona School Division will achieve this by conducting a community-based participatory action project. Through this project which seeks to address the graduation rate gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous girls, their mental health experiences in school, experiences of discrimination and lower rates of leadership. Female Indigenous students will be mentored by Indigenous community leaders to celebrate their Indigenous identity and will be trained by industry professionals in photography, Photoshop and InDesign to create a Photovoice project book. The students will be trained to collect and analyze data for the photovoice project and be supported to compile their data into a book. These books will identify changes needed and will provide recommendations that will be implemented in schools to allow Indigenous girls to feel safe in school and gain leadership skills as they confidently move to postsecondary education and the workforce.

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 and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

This project will work with the University of Winnipeg Continuing Education Department, the Braiding Histories program, a community Elder and with other female Indigenous community leaders to empower Indigenous girls to succeed at school, increase confidence in themselves and embrace their indigeneity. A mixed methods approach will be utilized to assess project’s results.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Aura Freedom International will achieve this by creating a National Network and National Guidelines for reporting on GBV in the media.

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 and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

The Network created as a result of this project will consist of journalists, media professionals, students, professors, GBV organizations, frontline workers, Elders, survivors and marginalized groups who will work together to create National Guidelines for GBV in the media. The Network will produce additional resources housed on a public Project Microsite. Network members will also participate in a Forum where media professionals and students can submit work prior to publication, ensuring journalism is GBV transformative.

This 26-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change.

The 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Reelworld Foundation will achieve this by addressing discriminatory legislation, policies, and/or practices that prevent women and/or girls from fully participating in the social, political and economic spheres, design and implement policies and practices to increase women’s labour market participation and opportunities, develop and implement community-based approaches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women, engage men and boys to combat harmful gender norms and advance gender equality, develop and implement prevention focused initiatives to combat gender based violence, design and implement policies and practices to increase women’s leadership in democratic, civic, public or private sectors, convene and strengthen the feminist movement to collaboratively advance gender equality, build relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality.

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, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Theatre Direct Canada will achieve this through the implementation of Balancing Act, a focused program designed to address discriminatory legislation, policies, and practices that prevent women with caregiving responsibilities from fully participating in social, political, and economic spheres in the performing arts.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Women in Business New Brunswick, operating under "The New Brunswick Association of CBDCs/L’Association des CBDC du Nouveau-Brunswick Inc.", will achieve this by identifying barriers to women’s leadership, by building collaborative and community-based approaches, by supporting the adoption of inclusive policies and practices and by measuring the effectiveness of their initiatives.

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

This project will bring together women, business stakeholders and leaders, along with the support from organizations and partners such as with Femmocracy Now, the New Brunswick Multicultural Council and First Nations, to share on best practices and GBA+ principles.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Compass Early Learning and Care will achieve this by engaging municipal partners and community stakeholders in an operational and evaluative review of current recruitment, onboarding and training processes for Home Child Care Providers (this will include a GBA+ analysis); developing resources to ease entry into this career pathway for newcomer and low-income women, non-binary and trans people; building understanding in municipal partners and equity-seeking community organizations of the barriers facing low-income and newcomer women entering the field of childcare in order to drive services that reflect their needs for income stability. 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 and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response to and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic changes. To achieve this, Relais-femmes intends to prepare a portrait of racialized women engaged in partner-oriented research that will include the systemic barriers they face and the solutions to apply; to help create and strengthen formal spaces specifically by and for racialized women engaged in partner-oriented research; to combat enduring systemic barriers by putting forward best practices for partner-oriented research by, for, and with racialized women; to document the measures taken; and to promote any promising practices.

By the end of the project, the organization aims to have helped remove systemic barriers by enhancing networks and collaboration to expedite systemic change and by supporting a positive distribution of power, the right to speak, and decision-making authority in support of women’s equality.