Grants and Contributions

This 8-month project will work to eliminate gender-based violence by using Grey Cup 2019 as a platform to raise public awareness, and mobilize community and corporate partners to minimize the impact of any spike in violence occurring during Grey Cup 2019.

This 8-month project will build networks and spaces for pro-feminist male leaders to engage among themselves and with feminists/women’s organizations on gender equality-related issues. The work undertaken in this project will inform a broader strategy on engaging men and boys.

Thirteen partnering Inuit communities in Manitoba (Winnipeg, Churchill and Brandon), Nunavut (Baker Lake, Chesterfield Inlet, Saniqilluaq, Arviat, Whale Cove, Rankin Inlet, Repulse Bay and Coral Harbor) and Nunatsiavut (Nain and Rigolet, and Northern Labrador) will hold healing sewing circles for families of missing and murdered Inuit women and girls. Family members will share traditional Inuit sewing techniques as they collaborate to create a series of "Red Amautiit" (i.e. iconic female Inuit parkas) to commemorate their loved ones. These "Red Amautiit" and the stories behind them will be shared with the public at a series of temporary and permanent exhibitions. The project will run from July 2019 to March 2021.

This 20-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 consultation with families and community members to provide mental health, cultural services and programs for those affected, and to develop and create commemoration monuments.

This 20-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: create an educational toolkit to help end gender-based violence and other root causes of MMIWG in Métis communities. The toolkit will provide artwork, stories, and the strengths of Métis women as well as to deliver tools to organize a ceremony to honour Métis women in local communities across the homeland.

This 18-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: desktop research to expose systemic, societal and institutional factors that promote MMIWG and repression of LGBTQ2S individuals as well as the creation of several short videos depicting these factors which will be disseminated to TV networks, online platforms and organizations working in the field of MMIWG and LGBTQ2S.

This 20-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 nine events, from three event series: the ‘Creation and Clan Story’ workshops and sharing circles, the ‘Red Revues’ concert series and Indigenous music workshops, and the ‘Writer’s Room’ readings of Indigenous writing, to be held in Kitigan Zibi and in Toronto, in partnership with Indigenous communities, Indigenous artists, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, LGBTQ2S individuals, Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre, and the Kitigan Zibi Education Sector.

This 20-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: developing commemoration initiatives by, with and for Inuit that promote healing, inspiring hope for future generations, and raising awareness toward ending the cycle of violence and abuse.

This 44-month project would create space for dialogue and engagement on gender equality with Métis youth through the development of communications and outreach strategies, video networking, and opportunities for select participants from across the Homeland (British Colombia to Ontario) to present their views on the issue to the larger membership of Les Femmes Michif Otimpemisiwak. The capacity and confidence of youth to lead on and advocate for gender equality in their communities will also be built through training and a mentorship program.

This 20-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 creation of a communal legacy monument as well as opportunities for individual documentation of digital stories.