PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise: federal grants and contributions

Updated 11 October 2026 · Thunder Bay, ON · grants and contributions register · Taiaiako'n-Parkdale-High Park

PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise: federal grants and contributions: 16 agreements; $24.1M value; 7 departments; 10 programs.

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16agreements
$24.1Mvalue
7departments
10programs

Largest agreements

514950$4.6Mvalue2023start2027end

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.

514531$3.2Mvalue2022start2025end

Continuation of the Women's Enterprise Centre Northern Ontario (WECNO) project to enhance support to women entrepreneurs in growth-oriented businesses

900427$3.2Mvalue2025start2028end

A program focused on scale up strategy, business support and technology adoption for women led businesses in Northern Ontario.

511815$3.0Mvalue2019start2022end

To support women entrepreneurs in growth-oriented businesses to advance their productivity, competitiveness, and business management capacity.

Collaboration for Transformation: Scaling Impact for Systemic Change for Women Entrepreneurs$2.2Mvalue2024start2027end

Through this 33-month systemic change project, PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise will scale “Collaboration for Transformation” to advance women’s economic security and prosperity. It will scale to four (4) WAGE regions- Atlantic, Ontario, Prairies and Pacific. It will address barriers that women entrepreneurs, especially Indigenous, newcomer, and other diverse entrepreneurs with intersecting identities, disproportionately face in comparison to men when growing their business, including in growth sectors such as green ∕ clean tech, digital services, agri-food and manufacturing; To do so, the p

512194$2.1Mvalue2019start2023end

Enterprising Indigenous Women - help Indigenous Women (IW) to start and scale businesses in remote & rural Northern Ontario.

1001604$1.7Mvalue2022start2024end

Support women-owned businesses and create jobs through the delivery of enhanced and specialized supports and expand access to domestic and export markets.

509920$1.5Mvalue2012start2016end

Advance the economic impact of Northern women entrepreneurs.This is a pan-northern initiative to develop innovative tools and methods to expand women's business networks and forge new partnerships.

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1017043$750Kvalue2024start2027end

To implement the Women's Innovation Initiative (WIN) to support and increase the number of scalable women-owned companies.

504207$500Kvalue2009start2013end

PARO service on Wheels mobile service and create use of technology to support women's entrepreneurship development and economic capacity building.

Collaboration for Rural Recovery and Resilience$493Kvalue2021start2024end

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. PARO – Centre for Women’s Enterprise will work in collaboration with diverse stakeholders and equity seeking organizations in communities in Eastern, Northern and Southern Ontario - where women have been disproportionately impacted by Covid-19. By engaging in working partnerships, developing and testing strategies, researching models of best practices, and implementing knowledge sharing, PARO will build on their previous project, Collaborating for Transformation: A

508891$335Kvalue2011start2013end

Business development support for Francophone women in Northern Ontario.

Collaborating for Transformation: Advancing Women’s Economic Security$280Kvalue2018start–end
Empower-F: PARO Capacity Building for Future and for the Women's Movement$100Kvalue2019start2024end

This 57-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: research and exploration; strategic and succession plan development and implementation; knowledge and best practices sharing to improve the organization’s continuity, stability and capacity, as well as contributing to strengthen the women’s movement and advancing gender equality. Supplemental funds awarded in March 2023 will support the organization as they

Agreement$50.0Kvalue2012start–end
CSJ2018-PARO Centre For Women's Enterprise (Thunder Bay--Rainy River)$3.8Kvalue2018start2018end

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Departments

Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario4agreements$11.6Mvalue3programs
  • Northern Ontario Development Program - 2011
  • Northern Ontario Development Program
  • WES Ecosystem Fund - Regional

All grants from Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada4agreements$6.9Mvalue2programs
  • Women Entrepreneurship Strategy Ecosystem Fund
  • FedNor

All grants from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Women and Gender Equality Canada3agreements$2.8Mvalue1programs
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario2agreements$2.5Mvalue2programs
  • Jobs and Growth Fund (JGF)
  • Regional Innovation Ecosystem (RIE)

All grants from Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

Status of Women Canada1agreements$280Kvalue1programs
National Research Council Canada1agreements$50.0Kvalue0programs
Employment and Social Development Canada1agreements$3.8Kvalue1programs

Years

20251agreements$3.2Mvalue1programs
  • Northern Ontario Development Program
20242agreements$2.9Mvalue2programs
  • Women's Program
  • Regional Innovation Ecosystem (RIE)
20231agreements$4.6Mvalue1programs
  • Women Entrepreneurship Strategy Ecosystem Fund
20222agreements$5.0Mvalue2programs
  • Northern Ontario Development Program - 2011
  • Jobs and Growth Fund (JGF)
20211agreements$493Kvalue1programs
  • Women's Program
20193agreements$5.2Mvalue3programs
  • Northern Ontario Development Program - 2011
  • WES Ecosystem Fund - Regional
  • Women's Program
20182agreements$284Kvalue2programs
  • Status of Women Canada
  • Youth - Canada Summer Jobs
20122agreements$1.6Mvalue1programs
  • FedNor
20111agreements$335Kvalue1programs
  • FedNor
20091agreements$500Kvalue1programs
  • FedNor

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.