Grants and Contributions

Canada Book Fund

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society will achieve this by influencing policies and procedures of local organizations and agencies to ensure Indigenous cultural sensitivities are reflected; by developing a supporting document to outline methods of inclusion and considerations; developing a guide with recommendations to address gaps in equitable culturally based services; and implement training on an equitable policy procedure for staff to address the systemic inequities facing Indigenous people related to violence, housing, employment, and childcare.

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, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes.

This project will bring together Indigenous people with lived experience to document the challenges experienced due to the pandemic, identify gaps in services within the Vancouver Metro area, and create a formal policy procedure for internal staff and external stakeholders to implement assistance. A total of 60 staff members will receive training on bias-based inequities and the policy procedures for equitable Indigenous assistance will be shared with community health organizations and other partner stakeholders.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Canadian Institute of Forestry (CIF) will achieve this by developing a governance structure through engaging and establishing working partnerships; building the evidence base through data collection on underrepresented groups in greater depth by region; fostering an inclusive culture by developing and providing training and skills development on improving the workplace culture; and repositioning the forest sector with communications strategies and progress tracking.

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 increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change to support women’s equality. CIF will also achieve this by supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power; and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes.

This project seeks to scale up a past successful project, Gender Equity in the Forest Sector National Action Plan, in accelerating progress on women’s equality and the equality of other under-represented groups in all employment categories in Canada’s forest sector. In this scale up, the project will increase networks and collaboration by leveraging existing National Steering Committee partnerships and build new regional committees in Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies and Pacific regions across the forest sector supply chain to provide strategic governance of the project.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Fora: Network for Change will achieve this by designing and implementing policies and practices to increase women’s labour market participation and opportunities; engaging women and/or girls with lived experience to influence pandemic recovery responses; and designing and implementing policies and practices to increase women’s leadership in democratic, civic, public or private sectors.

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 supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power to support women’s equality.

This project seeks to fight for a COVID-19 recovery that prioritizes girls’ and women’s full participation in the labour force, by placing young women with lived experiences of the pandemic in decision-making spaces across Canada. Task forces in the private sector, philanthropic, and public sectors will be included, and, as part of tracking participation in recovery committees and task forces across sectors, Fora will produce a first of its kind semi-annual tracker of recovery committees and task forces ("decision-making bodies"), and report on the number of younger women included on these bodies across Canada.

The additional funds will be used to improve communication materials and strengthen advocacy activities, including an advocacy webpage and an advocacy event.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Foundation of Moms-in-Film Canada will achieve this by creating a technology-based solution to eliminate barriers of employment entry and retention of caregivers, primarily mothers in the screen industries. This technology will focus on solving logistics issues mothers face in gaining entrance and maintaining a career in the industry, including a specific focus on supporting Indigenous, Black, and other under-represented women’s groups needing better, more responsive access to childcare as supported in the Moms-in-Film’s national research which concluded in March of 2021.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association (NACCA) will achieve this by building the capacity of its network of Aboriginal Financial Institutions (AFIs) across Canada to advance gender equality in their organizations and address barriers to entrepreneurship for Indigenous women by offering the training named ‘‘People-Centered Investment: Supporting the Potential and Power of Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs’, including a Gender-Based Analysis Plus lens. NACCA will also develop a number of profiles on diverse Indigenous women entrepreneurs and launch a national media campaign to increase awareness on and representativity of Indigenous women entrepreneurs with the aim to reduce the gender bias and discrimination they faced when trying to access business financing and services. Finally, a portion of NACCA’s Annual Prosperity Forum will be dedicated to Indigenous women entrepreneurship.
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 of the system all 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. The Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST) will advance women’s equality with a strategic focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

At the end of the project, SCWIST 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.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response to and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. To achieve this goal, the Conseil d’intervention pour l’accès de femmes au travail (CIAFT) du Québec inc. plans to: identify the issues driving systemic discrimination against women in employment and conduct focus groups and field investigations to identify issues, needs and problems related to working conditions in traditionally female trades; engage identified partners to create a platform of demands, implement action plans aimed at systemic and specific changes in each employment sector and conduct representation activity with decision makers to initiate systemic changes; develop and implement an awareness campaign and implement a media and press relations strategy to publicize the platform of demands and actions in targeted employment sectors at the provincial level.

By the end of the project, the organization will have helped eliminate systemic barriers by promoting inclusive policies and practices, by expanding networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change and by changing persistent and harmful gender norms and attitudes in support of women’s equality.

Through these activities, the project Réduire la discrimination systémique envers les femmes par la valorisation des métiers majoritairement féminins (reducing systemic discrimination against women by enhancing the value of predominantly female trades) will achieve the following outcomes: target audiences will have access to programs, resources and supports to respond and recover from the impact of COVID-19 on women’s equality; networks and collaboration to expand the scope, impact and sustainability of efforts to respond to and recover from the impacts of COVID-19 on women’s equality will be established; target audiences will use and apply the knowledge gained in their policy and program work to respond to and recover from the impacts of COVID-19 on women’s equality; and policies and practices designed to eliminate barriers to responding to and recovering from the impacts of COVID-19 will be inclusive.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Prince Albert Metis Women’s Assoc. Inc. will achieve this by identifying the barriers facing underrepresented women, girls 2SLGBGTQ+ and seniors in northern Saskatchewan and promote awareness campaigns to address those barriers. The project will partner with community groups as project advisors, and promotors. They will support human service organizations through action-based research and analysis that leads to improvements in organizational design, growth and governance. The organization will identify and build solutions to focus on creating reform, this will be measured and tracked by monitoring new policies and practices within supported organizations.

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 supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power to support women’s equality.

The organization will partner with governmental agencies to share and disseminate resources and tools created through the project to support community organizations. Additionally, health providers, economic advocates and academics will contribute to measure the impact of changes in policy, practice and leadership and help to quantify success.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Trucking Human Resources Canada will achieve this by promoting mechanisms for sector-focused systemic change across Canada.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to identifying and addressing systemic barriers to gender equality within the Canadian truck transportation sector and drive change from within. The project will identify factors shaping low rates of recruitment and retention of women; identify and disseminate research-based policies and practices that advance inclusive and gender-diverse work environments; develop employer tools and resources designed to reduce or eliminate systemic and gender-specific barriers; facilitate the development of networks; and work to dismantle harmful gender norms and attitudes by increasing awareness of women's roles in the industry.