Grants and Contributions

The goal of the initiative is to develop partnerships that enable reciprocal flow and uptake of research knowledge between researchers and stakeholders, in order to produce evidence-informed and gender-responsive solutions to foster the labour force participation of men and women with health issues and disabilities, as well as older workers with caregiving responsibilities outside their paid work.

This 7-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include: working with families to determine their needs for an LGBTQ2S safe space and the design and scope of supports needed for how they choose to honour their missing or murdered kin. This project will take place in Dryden Ontario and four additional Friendship Centre communities.

The project will develop and test a gender affirming inclusion process for LGBTQ2 communities and gender-non-binary survivors of gender-based violence to close the gaps in service provision for this underserved community.

This 36-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, its provincial affiliates, and partner Indigenous organizations to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. The organization will undertake research and analyze project outcomes in order to identify the elements needed to sustain the use of gender equality resources and tools beyond the funding lifecycle. The findings will shape the creation of a “Sustainability Guide” as well as a “Gender Equality Guide,” with participating organizations trained and supported to implement the strategies within ongoing programming.

This 36-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the National Association of Friendship Centres and its members to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. A series of activities will be undertaken to build national, provincial/territorial and local capacity. This will include training and research to guide the creation of resource manuals that share best practices on leadership, board governance, Indigenous-specific gender-based analysis, partnership development, collaboration and networking.

This three-month project will make it possible to develop a complete project proposal. The proposed project will develop an implementation plan to create and implement a formal review and evaluation process for intimate partner and family violence screening, assessment and intervention tools available to service providers working with older women (65 and up).

This 12-month project will build the capacity of women's shelters across Canada (excluding Quebec) to respond to the immediate health and safety crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and, in doing so, continue the important work of advancing gender equality in Canada. The organization will develop a process to disburse funding to women's shelters serving women and children victims of gender-based violence, including domestic violence, with the aim of addressing specific capacity and emergency preparedness needs.

The organization will develop a process to disburse funding to sexual assault centres serving women and children victims of gender-based violence, including domestic violence.

The organization will develop a process to disburse funding to sexual assault centres serving women and children victims of gender-based violence, including domestic violence.

This 12-month project will build the capacity of women's shelters to respond to the immediate health and safety crisis posed by the current COVID-19 pandemic and in doing so to continue their important work to advance gender equality in Canada.

The organization will develop a process to disburse funding to women's shelters serving women and children victims of gender-based violence, including domestic violence, with the aim of addressing centre’s specific capacity and emergency preparedness needs.