Grants and Contributions:

Helping Women Now: navigating support programs for COVID relief and beyond

NA20420

$615,800.00

Apr 22, 2021 - Apr 21, 2024

This 36-month project will build the organizational capacity of Dress for Success so that it will be in a better position to provide guidance to underserved and vulnerable women who are trying to navigate the wide variety of COVID-19-related economic supports and services. This project will allow the organization to develop and provide online workshops to help inform women about the various programs that are available to support them, and to guide women through the application process to access available resources, referrals to nearby food banks, women’s shelters and other supports and one-on-one peer support The supplemental funding will be used for the development of training videos for career and peer support of volunteers, as well as for training sessions for Dress for Success Affiliates on how to recognize gender-based violence in their work. The funding will also be used for the design of a scalable, sustainable, automated impact measurement process that will provide local/national data to support the increasing need and effectiveness of virtual services in relationship to client outcomes. The project will develop a data-driven national best practices in virtual program delivery resource for affiliates and other community organizations across Canada. The supplemental funds will help to combat isolation and to get women connected to community programs for additional social, economic and health supports. This project will assist women impacted by massive job losses right across the country, as well as uniquely gendered challenges to navigating employment and finding employment during the pandemic.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Women and stakeholders have access to supports to address issues relating to equality between women and men.

Casselman, Ontario, CA K0A 1M0

001-2021-2022-Q1-00013

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Increase of agreement value

Oct 11, 2023

Dress for Success Canada Foundation

Women's Program

The purpose of the Women’s Program is to advance equality for women in Canada by working to address or remove systemic barriers impeding women’s progress and advancement. The WP supports the Government of Canada’s goal of advancing gender equality in Canada. It is consistent with Government of Canada priorities related to economic prosperity, and supports Canada’s international commitments related to gender equality.