ABORIGINAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND INC: federal grants and contributions

The Mawiomi Empowerment Project aims to provide comprehensive support to Indigenous victims of crime through culturally appropriate practices. The workshops provide safe spaces for interaction, learning and community building, and offer validation, reassurance and comprehensive support to all participants.

• Department of Justice Canada
• Victims Fund
• Egmont

Through this 40-month project, the Aboriginal Women’s Association of PEI (AWAPEI) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. This will be achieved by implementing the organization’s strategic plan, by improving AWAPEI’s and its membership’s ability to address GBV, and by strengthening the organizational governance, communication, financial management and project management capacity. By the end of the project, AWAPEI will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program

This 20-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include: a commemorative monument, family gathering, educational activities as well as the creation of an informative toolkit.

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Department for Women and Gender Equality

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

• Indigenous Services Canada
• Social Development

This 47-month project will increase organizational capacity to allow the organization to continue their efforts in representing the interest and concerns of all Aboriginal, Inuit and Metis women in PEI and to promote social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the implementation of the following activities; strategic planning; board governance training and improvement; building partnerships and networks; improvement of financial health. An extension with supplement has been allocated to the organization to create onboarding packages, to

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

• Indigenous Services Canada
• Social Development

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

• Indigenous Services Canada
• Social Development

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
• Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

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• Indigenous Services Canada
• Social Development

• Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program
• Department for Women and Gender Equality
• Women's Program

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• Victims Fund

All grants from Department of Justice Canada

• Social Development

All grants from Indigenous Services Canada

• Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

All grants from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

• Victims Fund

• Social Development

• Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program
• Social Development

• Department for Women and Gender Equality
• Social Development
• Women's Program
• Health Promotion & Disease Prevention