Grants and Contributions

To coordinate local engagement on marine or rail transportation strategies and policies To facilitate the use of Indigenous traditional knowledge when decisions are made about the marine or rail transportation system To support activities and improve collaboration between Indigenous local communities and federal stakeholders

Performance of Sounding Thunder, The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow at Invictus Games, Feb. 2024

Two Hills Remembrance Day Service

This 19-month project will support Girls Forward Foundation’s capacity-building in order to advance gender equality. This will allow the organization to further impact thousands of girls across Canada, empowering them through sport, physical activity, and education while providing support and resources to grassroots organizations. This project will focus on the organization's delivery, impact, advocacy, branding and sustainability as a national charity. Key activities will include hiring consultants and experts in the sector to support with governance, fundraising, marketing, and HR policies, strategies and processes; investing in staff training, professional development, and benefits; and bringing in new team members to support the operations growth.

Through this 19-month project, Safehope Home will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need to 1) better align services for survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the Greater Toronto Area and 2) diversify funding sources to enable Safehope Home to deliver supports and services to women survivors when in crisis. The project will include the development of a comprehensive plan to build an emergency shelter and detox facility as well as the creation of a fund development plan.

Through this 31-month project, Elizabeth Fry New Brunswick (EFNB) will help advance women’s economic and leadership opportunities through systemic change. This project will increase leadership opportunities for women from underrepresented backgrounds, implement consensus-building measures that better account for the unique needs of those who face intersecting discrimination and oppression that reproduce structural inequities, create a systematic space for all voices to be heard and have influence, and generate a model for nonprofits to move away from patriarchal structures of governance to systematically make space for Indigenous and other ways of knowing. They will collaborate with other community non-profit organizations to develop new and updated approaches that support more equitable and inclusive practices to decision making and distribution of power.

An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of this systemic change project.

Through this 19-month project, the Centre de femmes Le point d’ancrage will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. It will address how the organization develops plans, makes decisions, and manages people. The project will include developing guides and policies, a human resources strategy, and a strategic plan as well as creating intervention tools. Lastly, the project will enable the implementation of a digital transition by supporting the management and organization of paper and digital records.

Through this 19-month systemic change project, Aftermetoo will scale its digital platform to advance women’s representation in leadership and decision-making roles, particularly focusing on young women aged 18-34, a group highly vulnerable to gender-based workplace harassment (GBWH). This initiative will expand the reach of the original Aftermetoo digital property, to this younger demographic, addressing their critical needs for support and resources in combatting GBWH. To achieve this, the project will develop and support online communities where young women can exchange resources, learn from shared experiences, and organize for systemic change. Ambassadors with lived experience will provide support and guidance to the communities. Additionally, the project will form partnerships with key stakeholders influencing the systems that impact those experiencing GBWH, aiming to use insights from the affected communities to foster improvements in these systems.

The Recipient will participate in activities directly related and attributable to participation in Finance Canada’s engagement process on Indigenous economic participation in Trans Mountain to benefit their communities. It is expected that the Indigenous Participant Funding Program will help to support the meaningful participation of Indigenous groups in initiatives related to the future divestment of Trans Mountain, led by Finance Canada or within the Minister of Finance’s purview.

Marketing strategy: The project aims to support the marketing of a technological solution for flood modeling and management.