Grants and Contributions

This 23-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Urban Indigenous Health and Healing Cooperative will achieve this by researching and evaluating experiences of Indigenous birth workers and clients, developing and implementing strategies to increase employment for Indigenous birth workers, consulting with health care providers and policy makers to inform policy and systems change, developing tools and resources to integrate Indigenous birth workers into existing health and related sectors and developing supportive materials to share Indigenous birthing practices and knowledge.
At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive polices and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, 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 project will advocate for Indigenous birth workers representation at leadership meetings to inform primary care and culturally safe maternity care in BC.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to address the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. MakeWay Foundation will achieve this by creating additional system-change leadership cohorts to amplify nature and climate action interventions led by women, supporting a collaborative fund to support women-led climate action initiatives, developing a webinar series that profiles system change efforts from women and black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) perspectives, and evaluating project impact.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power.

The project will build and enhance partnerships with the Systems Sanctuary, McConnell Foundation, and Sacred Earth Solar to increase peer support and collaboration for 100 women across seven cohorts for shared learning and action. One cohort will be exclusively BIPOC leaders on the frontline of the climate movement. By the end of the project minimum of 10 small grants will be disbursed to women leading initiatives to tackle nature, climate, and inequality crisis using an intersectional lens."

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Mid-Island Métis Nation Association will achieve this by convening a committee of women with lived experience of financial hardship to identify strategies that support economic interdependence amongst Indigenous, racialized and newcomer communities, engaging stakeholders to inform the areas of greatest need and incorporate collective models, and creating a framework for an anti-poverty strategy.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and by supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power.

Key partners in the project, Nanaimo Aboriginal Centre, Society for Equity Inclusion and Advocacy, Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society, and Nanaimo Foodshare Society will be instrumental throughout the project and will support implementing at least three framework initiatives to lift women and children out of poverty.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of Covid-19, through systemic change. Pacific Immigrant Resources Society will achieve this by developing and implementing community-based appraoches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women, engage women and/or girls with lived experience to influence pandemic recovery responses, convene and strengthen the feminist movement to collaboratively advance gender equality, build relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to colloboarte across sectors to advance gender equality.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemtic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and support positive authority, vocies and decision-making to support women's equality.

The project will conduct a needs assessment, pilot a women's childcare worker peer-mentioring program, and enhance sector collaboration for accessible childcare.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Solid State Community Society will achieve this by developing a Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPOC) -informed intersectional toolkit to influence policy, practice and procedures in hiring and upward mobility of racialized women within the City of Surrey, and by delivering workshops, seminars and trainings to diverse community groups and institutions to further share and implement policy guidelines to remove barriers to BIPOC women’s leadership opportunities.

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

Key partners in the project, the City of Surrey, DiverseCity, Simon Fraser University, and Surrey Anti-Gang Family Empowerment (SAFE) will be instrumental in mobilizing knowledge resources and to implementing the toolkit to influence systemic change.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to address the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Victoria Native Friendship Centre will achieve this by addressing systemic racism and misogyny within South Vancouver Island healthcare by developing an Indigenous Safety in Healthcare Advisory Committee, hiring a cultural safety facilitator to support Indigenous women and girls through the Women’s Health Empowerment Circles, and develop and deliver cultural safety training for Indigenous and non-Indigenous healthcare workers.

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, addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change.

The project will result in 12 Cultural Safety Training sessions delivered to healthcare workers and 15 Women’s Health Empowerment Circles for Indigenous women and girls.

This 53-month project will co-design, implement and evaluate a community-based wraparound model of care for child and youth survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in Fredericton, New Brunswick. NB Champions for Child Rights Inc. will lead this project with support from a Youth Council and a committee of experts in child rights, GBV, trauma-informed practice, and cultural safety. A needs assessment and community map of services will also be completed to increase the understanding of the diverse needs and gaps in supports for child and youth survivors of GBV in the Fredericton region.

At the end of the project, the organization will have developed a promising practice that will ensure that community-based organizations in the Fredericton region have the evidence, training, partners, and resources needed to deliver appropriate supports for child and youth survivors of GBV in a manner that is consistent with their best interests.

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.

This 29 month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan Inc. will achieve this by empowering Indigenous women through the establishment of an advisory committee from various sectors who will guide the project; utilizing the GBA plus approach to develop policy and workshops that promote positive economic growth for Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQ+ in Saskatchewan; sharing culturally relevant knowledge with current and potential partner network and promotion of the project will be enhanced by the Friendship centers across the province and the National Association of Friendship Centres.

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.

The project will build partnerships with other community organizations through policy development workshops to promote Indigenous woman into leadership positions to make systemic changes at the stakeholder level.

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