Grants and Contributions

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will achieve this by building relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. DAWN Canada will achieve this by addressing discriminatory legislation, policies, and/or practices that prevent women and/or girls from fully participating in the social, political and economic spheres.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak/ Women of the Métis Nation will achieve this by building relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality.

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Migrant Workers Centre BC Society will achieve this by addressing discriminatory legislation, policies, and/or practices that prevent women and/or girls from fully participating in the social, political and economic spheres.

This 31-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Informed Opinions will achieve this by advocating for policies and practices to increase women’s leadership in democratic, civic, public or private sectors while addressing discriminatory legislation, policies, and/or practices that prevent women and/or girls from fully participating in the social, political and economic spheres.

This 21-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA) will achieve this by challenging gender stereotypes at the Indigenous community level and pushing for policy change to better address gender-based violence (GBV) and provide adequate support to survivors; providing safe spaces for women and gender-diverse individuals to share stories, resources and hosting sharing circles to discuss GBV topics such as Indigenous Human Trafficking (IHT) and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), and reducing the feeling of shame for survivors; creating and hosting a culturally aware course on Indigenous GBV (including IHT and MMIWG) for band council members to educate them on stereotypes as well as influence the creation of new policies to prevent GBV within the community; creating partnerships with band council members (in Ontario and Quebec) to influence new policies; and performing an evaluation of the cultural relevancy and impact of the trainings for Indigenous communities, including lessons learned and proposed next steps for a national expansion.

This 27 months project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Canadian Parks and Recreation Association (CPRA) will achieve this by scaling up its current training by delivering webinars in four critical areas to community base professionals and practitioners, by building an online community of practice, implementing initiatives, as well as designing and hosting an interactive toolkit.

This 26-month-project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Environmental Careers Organization of Canada (ECO) will do this by developing community-based approaches to addressing intersectional barriers to women's equality and by promoting women's rights.

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Theatre Direct Canada will achieve this through the implementation of Balancing Act, a focused program designed to address discriminatory legislation, policies, and practices that prevent women with caregiving responsibilities from fully participating in social, political, and economic spheres in the performing arts.

Nunavut Arctic College will undertake the following activities in fiscal 2021 to 2023 in support of Adult Basic Education, which include hiring a coordinator and Elders to deliver programing, obtain the hardware components to support, develop and enhance on-line course conversions due to covid 19 restrictions. This will be accomplished by purchasing/shipping learning materials for 25 communities, including connectivity hardware and laptops.