These organizations represent a powerful range of community-led initiatives across Canada, working to address the safety needs of women and gender diverse people. Funding decisions were shaped by participatory grant making committee, broadening decision-making to those with lived experience and professional expertise.
Each grantee is advancing safety and dignity through community-based leadership, regional expertise, and a deep commitment to gender justice.
African Women’s Alliance of Waterloo Region, Kitchener, Ontario
Aide aux Trans du Québec, Montreal, Quebec
Alternatives for Women, Picton, Ontario
Antigonish Women’s Centre & Sexual Assault Services, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
BGC Prince County, Summerside, Prince Edward Island
Domestic Abuse Services Oxford, Woodstock, Ontario
Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
End Sexual Violence NL, St. John’s, Newfoundland
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women Canada, Victoria, British Columbia
Hope Resource Centre Association, Westlock, Alberta
Iranian Women’s Organization of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre Society, Kamloops, British Columbia
Maggie’s Toronto Sex Workers Action Project, Toronto, Ontario
Maison le Paravent, Pointe-Calumet, Quebec
Manitoba Association of Women’s Shelters, Winkler, Manitoba
Nipissing Transition House, North Bay, Ontario
PearlSpace Support Services Society, Squamish, British Columbia
PEI Family Violence Prevention Services, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Prairie Harbour Inc, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
Pro-Choice Society of Lethbridge & Southern Alberta, Lethbridge, Alberta
Project Agape, Ottawa, Ontario
Safe Haven Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre, Vancouver, BC
Supporting Survivors of Abuse and Brain Injury through Research (SOAR), Vernon, British Columbia
SWAN: Supporting Women’s Alternatives Network Society, Vancouver, British Columbia
The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Ottawa, Ontario
The Memphremagog Women’s Center, Magog, Quebec
The Tahiuqtiit Womans Society, Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories
Thela ylexw awtxw Foundation (House of Life Givers), Surrey, British Columbia
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, Vancouver, British Columbia
Wasoqop’q First Nation for Weli-ankweyasimk Women’s Shelter, Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia
West Kootenay Women’s Association, Nelson, British Columbia
Women’s Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre of Durham, Pickering, Ontario
Women’s National Housing & Homelessness Network, Athens, Ontario
Women’s Rural Resource Centre, Strathroy, Ontario
Xolhemet Society – Wilma’s Transition Society, Chilliwack, British Columbia
Yellowknife Women’s Society, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
YWCA St. John’s, St. John’s, Newfoundland