Canadian Center for Women's Empowerment (CCFWE): federal grants and contributions

Through this 32-month systemic change pan-Canadian project, the Canadian Center for Women’s Empowerment (CCFWE) will address systemic barriers that hinder opportunities for economic security and prosperity in the tourism and hospitality sectors for women and 2SLGBTQI+ survivors of gender-based violence. The project will work to change policies by engaging policymakers for closing the gender and racial gap, aligning current policies with international human rights documents (CEDAW and Beijing Declaration), addressing discriminatory impacts of the current employment insurance on women, parti

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

This 36-month project will mitigate the consequences of economic abuse survivors and promote women’s financial independence especially newcomers, refugees, racialized and Indigenous women. This will be achieved by having better data in place that would help monitor systemic barriers and research best practices for policies to prevent and respond to financial abuse. It will address systemic change through economic justice for survivors of economic abuse by conducting research and data collection, establishing a national working group with the intention of creating a national action plan, genera

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to address the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. It will address economic abuse and injustice through advancing advocacy and responding to policy changes, which aligns well with the feminist response and recovery. By the end of the project, the organization will develop and validate the Economic Abuse Screening Tool from the UK, which is proven to overcome and eliminate systemic barriers for survivors. The existing members of the National Economic Abuse Taskforce at the Canadian Centre for Women’s Empowerme

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

This 29-month research project aims to address systemic barriers to understanding and responding to economic abuse experienced by Black, Indigenous, and other racialized women across Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories by conducting a national study on economic abuse among racialized women. The study will examine the prevalence, forms, and consequences of economic abuse (including economic control, exploitation, and employment sabotage) across these regions. All research activities will be trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and guided by an advisory

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Gender-Based Violence Program

Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program - MARP - Organizational Capacity Building

• Canadian Heritage
• Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program - MARP - Organizational Capacity Building

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

• Employment and Social Development Canada
• Youth - Canada Summer Jobs

• Women's Program
• Gender-Based Violence Program

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program - MARP - Organizational Capacity Building

All grants from Canadian Heritage

• Youth - Canada Summer Jobs

All grants from Employment and Social Development Canada

• Gender-Based Violence Program

• Women's Program
• Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program - MARP - Organizational Capacity Building

• Youth - Canada Summer Jobs

• Women's Program