Grants and Contributions

This 29-month project will help end gender-based violence (GBV) among women and gender-diverse people who sell/trade sex, use drugs, or are living with HIV across Canada. This will be achieved by equipping the communities most directly affected with legal knowledge to respond to discriminatory laws and policies; supporting their meaningful participation in law and policy reform discussions; consulting them to advance inclusive policies and practice; strengthening existing networks and fostering new collaborations.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. North End Women’s Centre Inc. will achieve this by developing, integrating and implementing new inclusive policies and procedures through an anti-oppressive and decolonizing framework; they will collaborate with partners through a community of practice to support their development and implementation of anti-oppressive and decolonizing policies and practices; they will increase representation of lived experience of Indigenous, racialized, newcomer women, women who are LGBTQ2+ and marginalized voices through the creation of an Advisory Committee as well as a Lived-Experience Mentorship Program within their community of practice; and provide organization wide anti-oppression training and media communication training, allowing for increase reporting to media outlets and advocate for changes to systemic gender biases in messaging.

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

North End Women’s Centre will work with a variety of partners through a community of practice, including West Central Women’s Resource Centre, Manitoba Harm Reduction Network, Rainbow Resource Centre, Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba, and Ka Ni Kanichihk, among others. The organization will also work with Health in Common to develop and implement an evaluation framework as part of their project.

Through systemic change, this 30-month project will foster a feminist response to and feminist recovery from the current effects of COVID-19. To achieve this objective, Mères avec pouvoir (MAP) Montréal plans to: reduce the cycle of family poverty and alleviate the stigma facing single mothers by raising awareness among real estate developers about the importance of earmarking more units for this population in real estate projects; with a woman university researcher, identify best practices in co-parenting intervention, including programs for vulnerable fathers; promote social housing resources with community intervention for single mothers to reduce domestic and spousal violence in an approach geared to women’s autonomy and safety; develop a profile of single mothers and socio-professional intervention services offered in the province by collecting and analyzing community data to learn from them and by disseminating best practices in an effort to hasten systemic change.

To support business needs while recovering from COVID-19

Purchase of equipment to support the expansion into winter fisheries.

Working Capital: In the context of the crisis caused by the pandemic at COVID-19, the project aims to ensure the continuity of the activities of MTSF Consulting Services which specializes in financial and insurance services.

Divert Avon River to provide fresh water access for tourism and agriculture sectors

Develop outdoor activity centre and trail head

Repair and upgrade the leisure pool

This project aims to purchase and install a 185.3 kW solar system, an electric soybean roaster and an electric
water heater.