Grants and Contributions

This 24-month project will develop an enhanced community and workplace experience for the Signal for Help Responders learning journey and increase the reach of the initiative to better respond to survivors.

To do this, the organization will secure partnerships with new and established partners and secure an external evaluator to determine methodologies for tracking and evaluation. They will work collaboratively with partners and the evaluator to analyze the evaluation data, share promising practices, and adapt and optimize the learning material's content.

They will develop tailored bystander intervention tools in partnership with workplaces and communities to help bystanders better respond to survivors, and train volunteers to coach them to launch peer violence prevention projects.

10-15 gender diverse artists, content creators and gender justice advocates will share knowledge and promising practices to strengthen culture change efforts and end the normalization of
gendered violence. CWF will also undertake knowledge exchange activities with national reach to transform cultures of stigma to cultures of support for survivors.

Finally, CWF will share lessons from the scale up of the project by distributing the evaluation learnings across national and international partners to contribute to the culture change.

It will also enable SACs and GBV service organizations to maintain operations both during and after the pandemic and continue to serve the needs of women, girls, LGBTQ22SLGBTQQIA+, and gender non-binary people experiencing violence to advance gender equality in Canada. Canadian Women’s Foundation (CWF) will engage and consult with key stakeholders in order to implement a fair, transparent, and efficient process to distribute funding to SACs and GBV service organizations across Canada, outside of Quebec.

This 60-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic change among young women and girls in Canada. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: developing and implementing a strategic plan, improving human resource policies and processes, strengthening organizational and governance capacity, and developing and renewing memberships and partnerships within the donor community to ensure organizational sustainability in the longer term.

The supplemental funding will be used to develop and strengthen the organization’s fundraising capacity and to develop an action plan based on the assessment of strengths and challenges regarding organizational culture and current staff and board relationships.

Through this 15-month systemic change project, Low Entropy Foundation will help advance women’s representation in leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change.

Through this 18-month project, Ancestral Hands Foundation will build its capacity to advance gender equality.

Through this 26-month project, the Canadian Women's Foundation will focus on systems change to advance equality for women in the North, by addressing systemic barriers to women's progress and advancement, and providing access to supports and addressing issues related to equality between women and men in the North, with a strong emphasis on GBV, leadership, climate resilience and disaster management, and community wellness.

Through this 27-month project, Casey House Foundation will address the needs and barriers to equality for 2SLGBTQI+ communities.

This 48-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic change among young women and girls in Canada. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: developing and implementing a strategic plan, improving human resource policies and processes, strengthening organizational and governance capacity, and developing and renewing memberships and partnerships within the donor community to ensure organizational sustainability in the longer term.

The Project Time for 5 will be addressing gender-based violence (GBV) and women’s economic security, which is aligned with the Recipient’s work and experiences in seeking gender equity for all women in Canada. The focus of this project will specifically be on GBV, economic security and emerging issues in rural, remote and northern communities (using WAGE’s contribution to the Project), along with advancing gender equality for girls and women throughout Canada (using other sources of funding). In addition to providing direct contribution funding, the project will also provide capacity building supports for community-based organizations and grassroots initiatives within these communities.

Supplemental funding for the project will enable an expanded reach of the project to distribute additional funding to eligible organizations and to further support project activities.