Grants and Contributions

Through this 29-month systemic change project, Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity and representation in leadership through systemic change. The project will engage with diverse senior women survivors of violence who face challenges in securing employment, pilot a program to promote senior women in leadership roles and support them to develop awareness raising and advocacy tools to challenging stereotypes. They will then collaborate with employers, job placement agencies, and relevant stakeholders to promote systemic policy changes in their institutions to improve senior women's access to the job market. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 18-month project, Sisters in Canada Wellness Society will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address organizational effectiveness, resource management, engagement and collaboration. The project will include publicity and community networking, strategic planning, leadership and management development, board training and policy development

Through this 18-month project, Stella, l’amie de Maimie will conduct a research project that will help improve gender-based violence services for at-risk groups, in collaboration with a social work researcher. The project will document Stella’s intervention model and address intervention methodologies and practices tailored to the needs of sex workers and others who exchange sexual services to improve this community’s access to services for women who have experienced violence, services from which they are generally excluded. The project will feature feminist and nondirective harm reduction approaches developed by and for sex workers. These approaches will focus on empowerment; human rights; the links between direct services and collective advocacy; and issues related to the management, training, and retention of peer support workers. To achieve this goal, the project will document the current intervention and engagement model at Stella, l’amie de Maimie and develop a formal intervention framework, a training guide, and training tools. To share the research findings, Stella, l’amie de Maimie will offer workshops for various groups working with sex workers across Canada.

Through this 19-month systemic change project, the Conseil d’intervention pour l’accès des femmes au travail du Québec Inc. will scale the project “Reducing systemic discrimination against women by promoting female-dominated trades” to advance women’s economic security and prosperity. They will scale the project by expanding its scope to all of Québec and by addressing a new women-dominated job sector. The project will address various issues: workplace harassment and violence, work-life balance problems, strained work relationships and poor union representation, and occupational health and safety. To do this, the project will promote a better understanding of the barriers that women experience in a targeted job sector, continue collaborations with current and future partners to make a meaningful difference in women’s working conditions, and broaden the scope of the recommendations for change through a visit to various key players.

Through this 32-month project, Accès transports viables will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity as well as their access to leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change. More specifically, the project will address systemic barriers in the fields of land-use planning and mobility by collecting data on mobility deficits and barriers facing the most vulnerable women and other people; sharing these data with stakeholders, including through meetings and a new professional network on inclusive mobility; improving the capacity of players in sustainable mobility to deploy suitable services and inclusive practices through establishing an innovation lab that brings together professionals in the field; and building the most vulnerable women’s and other people’s capacity to engage in civic participation and influence the sustainable mobility sector through the creation of a training and support program as well as a community of practice. An external evaluation will measure and assess the impact of this project on systemic change.

Through this 18-month project, the Maison d’hébergement l’Issue will build its capacity to advance women’s equality. It will address the group’s organizational capacity to provide integrated, specialized, safe services for women with lived experience in the sex industry in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. The project will include strengthening l’Issue’s internal operations and management capacity, developing and implementing a participatory strategic plan, developing an intervention framework, creating a visual identity, and strengthening the Maison d’hébergement l’Issue’s services with current and future regional partners.

Through this 30-month project, Trans Wellness Ontario will address the needs and barriers to equality for 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be achieved by establishing a community consultation committee, delivering 2SLGBTQIA+ educational training for service providers, soliciting ongoing community feedback, and creating a referral pathway for 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive health and social service providers.

Through this 30-month project, Canvas Arts Action Programs (Canvas) will address the needs and barriers to equality for 2SLGBTQI+ communities, specifically trans and non-binary (TNB) students and staff in the Peel District School Board (PDSB) and Toronto District School Board (TDSB). This will be achieved by (1) engaging with the key populations in the relevant school boards to understand challenges faced by impacted parties, barriers to buy-in from decision-makers, and potential strategies for positive change, (2) developing and testing toolkits that build capacity to address discrimination against TNB youth in schools, and (3) evaluating the project and then sharing the results, recommendations and toolkit with school partners, contributors and community hubs.

Through this 30-month project, Timmins & Area Women in Crisis will help advance women's economic security and prosperity through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers that women, including those who identify as members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, face in securing meaningful employment in male-dominated fields of non-profit leadership, the natural resource sector and the skilled trades. The project will include the completion of a regional needs assessment, the development of tools to address barriers to meaningful employment for women, and advocacy engagement with employers and institutions within the male-dominated sectors. The project will also include the development of a plan for an Empowerment Hub to provide a safe place to support activities that will lead to systemic change for women. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Through this 18-month project, Georgian Bay Native Women’s Association will build its capacity to advance gender equality. It will address the need for processes pertaining to governance, financial management and continuous learning. The project will include the creation of updated bylaws and policies, the implementation of a new strategic plan with a Gender Base Analysis Plus (GBA+) framework, the formation of best practices pertaining to financial management, and the development of continuous learning and improvement processes.