Réseau des lesbiennes du Québec: federal grants and contributions

This 57-month project will address organization capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic changes towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: strategic planning, partnership development, collaboration and networking, development of a claims strategy, and diversification of the organization's funding sources. Also, this project will facilitate the creation of partnerships between the LGBTQ+ community and the various levels of government, enabling the organization to strengthen its advocacy efforts

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

This 24-month project will support a feminist response to and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. To achieve this goal, the Réseau des lesbiennes du Québec (RLQ) plans to develop and implement province-wide data collection focused on the needs and living conditions of LGBTQ2S+ women, and implement an awareness campaign to promote Lesbian Visibility Day (LVD). The main activities under the project will aim to increase the level of knowledge and raise awareness among different civil society actors about the real needs of LGBTQ2S+ women in order to influence cha

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

Through this 28-month project, the Quebec Lesbian Network will strengthen the capacity and networks of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. The project will address lesbian, bisexual, and queer women’s invisibility within the 2SLGBTQI+ community in Canada as well as the need to develop a more inclusive approach for bisexual and immigrant women and for non-binary and transfeminine people. The project will include developing a survey and a Canada-wide conference, consulting with excluded and marginalized groups of women+, compiling a collection of texts by sexually di

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

Thanks to the additional funding and 12-month extension granted at the beginning of 2026, the Réseau des lesbiennes du Québec will produce a sustainable, accessible, bilingual resource on lesbian-queer knowledge and create a web-based video training course on analyzing the intersection between sexism and lesbophobia. Through this, they will further advance gender equality.

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

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• Employment and Social Development Canada
• New Horizons for Seniors Program

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

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

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• New Horizons for Seniors Program
• Youth - Canada Summer Jobs

All grants from Employment and Social Development Canada

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

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

• Women's Program

• Women's Program
• New Horizons for Seniors Program

• Youth - Canada Summer Jobs