Grants and Contributions

The project will also collect data, conduct evaluations, and produce a toolkit to share best practices and lessons learned on educating youth about toxic masculinity and gender-based violence.

To do so, the project will develop a curriculum for individual and group GBV counseling programs on how to build resiliency, seek support systems, form boundaries, and cope with trauma while learning about empathy. The organization will reach out to South-Asian participants from various settings such as schools, cultural and religious centers.

It will also disseminate lessons learned and knowledge gained from the project through publications and community information sessions so that others may replicate it or expand upon it.

It will build the capacity of the organization’s decision-making process, financial, human resources and change management, strategic planning, learning and collaboration approaches. The project will achieve these goals by developing long term vision and strategies, prioritizing organizational development, consulting the community on priorities, and conducting a fundraising feasibility study.

To do so, the project will include an environmental scan of organizations involved in public safety and/or gender-based violence prevention work, community surveys around perceptions and experiences of safety, training and deploying a community-based outreach team, and sharing the learnings in a toolkit series to help other communities build layers of protection from sexualized violence in public spaces.

Rooted in anti-racist principles, CBRC will work with partners to develop and implement a capacity-building learning module to help organizations work more collaboratively and effectively, maximizing impact.

The project will include developing and putting in place HR processes and systems to hire grants committee members, creating a grants committee that will research, learn and develop resources on how to find and write funding proposals and how to develop other financial sustainability options and funding partnerships with the private sector, creating two strategic plans for the committee, gathering feedback, evaluating and updating the resources, and developing an online resource library to train new committee members and the Sher Vancouver team.

Rebuild community garden greenhouse

Following a space mission, astronauts experience severe bone thinning and increased risks of fracture when back on Earth. This bone anomaly is due to the exposure to an environment with reduced gravitational forces, namely microgravity. The aim of this study is to reproduce the microgravity environment on Earth using a ground-based instrument. Researchers will expose fish larvae to a simulated microgravity environment and analyse the effects on bone cells in the skeleton. The counter measure of vibration will also be examined separately and in combination with microgravity. The objectives of the study are to understand the cellular responses to these treatments in order to understand the microgravity induced bone loss observed in astronauts and to understand how to reduce these effects with vibration exposures. Fish bones strongly resemble human bones, in that the same cells are present, therefore these results will be relevant to humans.

It is well-recognized that astronauts experience profound physiological changes that adversely affect the heart owing in part to the effects of changes in the normal circadian light/dark cycle. Furthermore, new compelling data from the research group suggests that accumulation of damaged organelles resulting from impaired cellular quality control processes is an underlying defect contributing to cardiac cell-death and dysfunction following circadian disruption. The relationship between circadian disruption and heart health during spaceflight is not well-studied. Hence, the research team proposes to delineate how circadian disruption influences autophagy, cell-viability and cardiac dysfunction in females versus males in response to altered light/dark cycle during spaceflight.