Canadian Women's Chamber of Commerce: federal grants and contributions

The Women Entrepreneurship Strategy (WES) aims to increase women-owned businesses? access to the financing, talent, networks and expertise they need to start up, scale up and access new markets.

• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
• Women Entrepreneurship Strategy Ecosystem Fund
• Thunder Bay—Superior North

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce (CanWCC) will achieve this by bringing together organizations with similar goals to engage into and operate a national advocacy network of feminist equality-seeking organizations called the Economic Equity Alliance (EEA). The EEA will identify and prioritize key issues, legislation, policies and practices, and develop recommendations to advance marginalized communities and underrepresented women entrepreneurs. In addition to

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

This 60-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Activities will focus particularly on building capacity and strategic planning for national expansion and enhanced national advocacy, including through research and partnership building with businesswomen, service providers, and other stakeholders invested in advancing women’s economic prosperity through entrepreneurship. Operational policies and procedures, along with marketing, communications and training

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

• Women Entrepreneurship Strategy Ecosystem Fund

All grants from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

• Women's Program

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• Women Entrepreneurship Strategy Ecosystem Fund

• Women's Program

• Women's Program