Grants and Contributions

The Sentinelles program aims to implement measures and services to promote the economic and social autonomy of veterans in crisis, to break the cycle of homelessness and to encourage social reintegration.

To open a new Drop-In and Support in Ottawa for homeless and at-risk Veterans, their families, and friends, offering community and individual support.

The Women Warriors' Healing Garden will offer therapy programs, foster partnerships and develop networks with other community organizations about the mental health needs and challenges of Canada's Veterans who are also members of minority groups. A particular focus will be on building knowledge and understanding of the social issues and challenges facing the female and LGBTQ2S+ Veteran population.

This 19-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include: working in collaboration with families affected to create a community monument that will be placed in the three Northern Tutchone communities as well as the coordination of a community feast and un-veiling ceremony.

This 60-month project will build on work previously undertaken by ONWA in 1989 and 2015, using a community development model to find strategies to help communities in their efforts to combat violence and system discrimination. The project will engage with Indigenous women, using a trauma-based care approach and cultural practices to develop recommendations for both organizational and system-wide approaches and mechanisms to respond to the needs of Indigenous women survivors of violence.

This 54-month project will improve access to coordinated, sensitive and adapted services for LGBTQ2 survivors of sexual violence in urban, suburban, rural and isolated areas in the Montreal, Montérégie, Abitibi-Témiscamingue and North-Shore regions, in Quebec, in order to take into account their needs and lived experiences.

This 11-month project will address the organizational capacity needs of the RC4R and promote collaborative knowledge generation and dissemination amongst the emerging national network of LGBTQ2 refugee civil society organizations in order to offer LGBTQ2 newcomers safety, care, and resources for resilience, as well as opportunities for livelihood and civic participation. Specifically, organizational capacity building will be enhanced through the development of RC4R’s governance structure; expansion and formalization of its membership using a community of practice model; and, conducting needs assessments of regional hubs and the National network. Knowledge generation will be enhanced through a literature review, environmental scan, and focus groups, as well as the sharing of information via regional hubs and a national consultation in order to inform priority setting for community building and advocacy efforts.

The Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral (CGS D) Program provides financial support to outstanding eligible students pursuing doctoral studies in a Canadian university. These prestigious scholarships aim to develop research skills and assist in the training of highly qualified personnel by supporting students who demonstrate a high standard of scholarly achievement in undergraduate and graduate studies.

This 36-month project will enable Actua to develop innovative on- and offline programming that empowers girls and young women to critically assess online interactions and threats in ways that reduce cyber-violence and promote positive digital and community citizenship. Approaches and content will be tested to ensure that they are appropriate to a range of ages and youth populations, particularly those that are economically and socially marginalized. The project will then develop a plan to scale-up learnings for inclusion in a variety of existing Actua programs and will share lessons with influential stakeholders through thought leadership activities.

This 5-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: Opening Ceremonies to honour MMIWG2S and a podcast series based on the television episodes of ‘TAKEN’ that tells the personal stories of MMIWG2S through interviews with loved ones, community leaders, elders, experts, and law enforcement.