October 12, 2023 – Calgary, Alberta

Today, Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) announced funding for eight organizations under the Call for Proposals to Address Gender-based Violence Through Promising Practices and Community-based Research.

The following seven organizations received funding to develop, put in place, and evaluate promising practices to strengthen the gender-based violence sector:

Sanare Centre

Medicine Hat, Alberta

Project name: Creating safe and supportive workplaces for men in feminist organizations to be allies in gender-based violence

Funding amount: up to $373,096

Canadian Pakistani Support Group Association

Calgary, Alberta

Project name: Immigrant Youth Leading Change

Funding amount: up to $375,750

Association for the Alberta Network of Immigrant Women (ANIW)

Calgary, Alberta

Project name: Community-Based Primary Prevention Supports: Capacity-Building Groups for gender-based violence Prevention for and by Ethnocultural Leaders

Funding amount: up to $450,081

Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse Society

Calgary, Alberta

Project name: “Who Do You Tell?” for Alberta: Scaling Accessible Child Sexual Abuse Education Province-wide

Funding amount: up to $576,560

Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services

Calgary, Alberta

Project name: Closing the Justice Gap: On Line Third Party Reporting for Sexual Assault Survivors in Alberta

Funding amount: $411,985

The Immigrant Education Society (TIES)

Calgary, Alberta

Project name: Voices In the Art (VIA)

Funding amount: $627,350

Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association

Calgary, Alberta

Project name: Uncovering Promising Futures

Funding amount: up to $650,000

The following organization received funding to conduct community-based research to help address the needs of those that are at risk of gender-based violence or are underserved when they experience it:

Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta

Project name: Reclaiming Our Spirit: An Indigenous exploration gender-based violence and criminalization

Funding amount: up to $278,612

More information about the Call for Proposals to Address Gender-based Violence Through Promising Practices and Community-based Research