Grants and Contributions

Additional funding to initiate or maintain the employment or financial support - via stipend or salary - of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are directly impactred by the crisis in Ukraine.

Additional funding to initiate or maintain the employment or financial support - via stipend or salary - of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are directly impactred by the crisis in Ukraine.

Additional funding to initiate or maintain the employment or financial support - via stipend or salary - of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are directly impactred by the crisis in Ukraine.

This program attracts and retains the best and brightest by recognizing and providing support to research talent at varying career stages, including funding for graduate or postgraduate level research and recognition of achievements through awards and prizes.

This program provides funding to enable social sciences and humanities research collaboration with partners across the academic, public, private and not-for-profit sectors. This program helps stimulate leading-edge, internationally competitive research, fosters strong and productive research collaborations with multisectoral partners and accelerates the use of research results by organizations that can harness them for Canadian economic, social and cultural development.

This 22-month project will build the capacity of sexual assault centres 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 sexual assault centres 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. It will then coordinate the gathering, consolidation and analysis of information from ultimate recipient reporting on how funding was used. Other activities may be undertaken, as needed, including the transfer of knowledge on sexual assault centre needs, impacts, and responsive solutions to COVID-19.

In October 2020, following the Government of Canada announcement of an additional $50M in emergency COVID-19 support, an additional $20,600,000 was provided to expand the current project to provide additional funding to sexual assault centres (based on the requested needs) and support women’s organizations and other organizations offering significant GBV supports and services to women, outside of Québec, to prepare surge capacity to deal with anticipated influx seeking support as a result of increased gender-based violence during the COVID 19 pandemic, and to support their ability to address, prevent and reduce gender-based violence.

In May 2021, additional supplemental funding of $7,197,267 was provided to CWF in order to support women’s organizations and other organizations offering significant GBV supports and services to women that were deemed eligible under the application process for funding but were unable to receive funding due to oversubscription and limited funds being available.

In August, 2021, further supplemental funding of $7,506,000 was provided to fund an additional 93 eligible organizations.

This 48-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, including through training and research to guide the creation of resource manuals that share best practices on leadership, board governance, Indigenous-specific gender-based analysis and partnership development, collaboration and networking and strategic planning. These activities will particularly target the Indigenous women leaders that make up 70 per cent of friendship centres directors in Canada and will maintain supports through the development of an Urban Indigenous women’s leadership network.

The supplemental funding will be used for strategic planning with NAFC and their Provincial Territorial Associations (PTAs).

The supplemental funding will be used for project activities such as GBA+ analysis and engagement, partnership development and collaboration, training opportunities for NAFC staff and Board of Directors, and conducting a review of all NAFC handbooks, policies, procedures and documents.

This 6-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include: the coordination of a trauma-informed community design process, the creation of a community mural and interpretative signage and the coordination of a commemorative community event.

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.