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Title:

Intersecting Futures Lab- Pilot Project

Agreement Number:

SO230215

Agreement Value:

$25,000.00

Agreement Date:

Feb 1, 2024 - Jan 31, 2025

Description:

Through this 12-month project, Intersecting Futures Lab will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. The project will begin by building its own organizational capacity to become a legally constituted not-for-profit organization, recruiting members to its Board of Directors, engaging stakeholders, and determining its revenue needs. It will also address identified discrepancies between the economic success and labour attachment of 2SLGBTQI+ self-identified people and their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts through reimagining financial literacy, work-readiness, and entrepreneurship supports through uniquely queer lenses. The project will include the audit, creation, and pilot of culturally relevant resources, establishing a 2SLGBTQI+ youth network, recruitment and skilling of said youth network and 2SLGBTQI+ adult mentors, and incubation of change-making projects by youth cohorts.

Organization:

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Expected Results:

Partnerships and collaborations are established and/or strengthened to support the LGBTQ2 movement LGBTQ2 organizations have increased knowledge and capacity to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

Location:

Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA B3J 3S8

Reference Number:

001-2023-2024-Q4-00033

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Recipient's Legal Name:

Intersecting Futures Lab

Program:

Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program

Program Purpose:

The purpose of ESSOGIE program is to advance social, political and economic equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

Advancement towards a greater understanding of the intersection of sex and gender with other identity factors that include race, national and ethnic origin, Indigenous origin or identity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic condition, place of residence and disability are encouraged under the Program.