Grants and Contributions

Through this 11-month project, the Canadian Women’s Foundation will build capacity in evaluation, data governance, and reporting systems. Key activities include strengthening data systems to track the impact of redistributed funding, integrating evaluation and learning processes, enhancing policy engagement informed by community evidence, establishing responsible AI governance and data stewardship practices, and institutionalizing public accountability through annual impact reporting. These improvements will strengthen the CWF’s ability to analyze outcomes, share sector learning, and demonstrate impact. The project will also support the organization’s broader goal of increasing annual fundraising targets to ensure long-term sustainability and contribute to a strong, sustainable women’s movement in Canada.

Through this 14-month project, the Canadian Women’s Foundation will strengthen Canada’s movement for gender equality by identifying eligible national women’s organizations and providing resources to build their internal capacities in the following areas of capacity: Human resources management, development and sustainability of partnerships, strategic and operational planning, change management, sustainability of funding, build capacity to undertake advocacy and provide expertise, and resultsbased management and impact measurement. This will be achieved through the further distribution of funds to a minimum of thirty national women’s organizations, through a process co-designed with feminist leaders.

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.

Digital Citizen Contribution Program -

The Women Entrepreneurship Strategy (WES) aims to increase women-owned businesses? access to the financing, talent, networks and expertise they need to start up, scale up and access new markets.

Digital Citizen Contribution Program

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.

Exchanges Canada Program - Youth Forums Canada

The objective of the IRP is to improve the ability of (SPO)s to participate in the social finance market (i.e. secure a repayable investment), as well as to engage in procurement and outcomes-based funding opportunities by:.• Enabling SPOs to gain a variety of skills and competencies along the investment readiness continuum;.• Supporting the readiness of established expert services providers to provide nation-wide capacity-building services to SPOs in one or more key area along the investment readiness continuum; and.• Supporting the advancement of Canada’s SI/SF ecosystems by responding to identified system-level gaps (e.g. building the capacities of social finance intermediaries, advancing impact measurement, and supporting SI/SF awareness and knowledge mobilization)..

This 20-month project will support the capacity of sexual assault centres (SACs) and other gender-based violence (GBV) service organizations to deliver essential programs and services in response to the ongoing health and safety crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will enhance the ability of SACs and GBV service organizations to adapt and re-design essential programs and services as necessary while responding to specific capacity and community needs. 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 funding aims to address the specific needs of SACs and GBV service organizations and ensure they are better equipped to respond to local and emerging contexts, both during and after the pandemic.
CWF will coordinate the gathering and consolidation of information from funding Recipients to determine how and to what extent the funding has impacted their organizational capacity to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Other activities may be undertaken, as needed, including the communication of results, dissemination of knowledge, and sharing of best practices among SACs and GBV service organizations across Canada.