Grants and Contributions:

Project Reach, Rigor & Relevance: Strengthening the YWCA Movement

WP240030

$496,055.00

Oct 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2026

Through this 18-month project, YWCA Canada will build its capacity to advance gender equality. Across the 29 member associations and national office, the project will address current challenges to accurately assess impact, identify and address gaps, orient membership, manage leadership shifts, engage new national donors, advocate on emerging issues, and scale/share evidence-informed practices. To address these challenges, YWCA will develop, test, deploy, and socialize a new co-designed National Theory of Change, National Data Model and federation standards. They will also build and launch a Dynamic Resource and Learning Hub to effectively socialize the frameworks and standards and ensure their continued relevance and flexibility for improvements. Project Reach, Rigor and Relevance is designed to strengthen and sustain the YWCA movement across Canada, ensuring alignment with the collective potential and working cohesively to end gender inequalities. This is a key step for the YWCA movement, helping to fortify their role as a leading voice and service-delivery organization for women and women’s issues in Canada.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Toronto, Ontario, CA M5G 0A7

190-2024-2025-Q3-00052

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

YWCA Canada

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.