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BUILDING LEADERSHIP
When you support the Foundation, you support community-grounded leadership that propels gender
justice forward and builds the individual leadership skills of women, girls, and gender-diverse people.
Thanks to you:
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Grantee partners create and deliver programs by participants, for participants, along with leadership
and mentorship opportunities
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We can support feminist research, thought-leadership, and systemic change initiatives
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Gender justice service providers have access to professional development and knowledge-sharing
opportunities that help them better serve their communities
Opening doors for diverse entrepreneurs
Women, trans, and non-binary entrepreneurs face multiple barriers to starting and scaling new
businesses. Through our exciting new Partnering for Feminist Entrepreneurship Project, we are
working with seven organizations to provide education, training, mentorship, and networking
opportunities to diverse founders, as well as address systemic barriers they face. We will also
collaborate on raising awareness about these challenges and highlight the need for intersectional
feminist business and financing practices.
Supporting trans and gender-diverse communities
How can we support trans and gender-diverse communities to thrive? This is the key question of the
Transcend Impact Challenge, led by the Sonor Foundation, set up and launched with support from
the Canadian Women’s Foundation and other partners. The Challenge will channel a $1.5 million
fund toward projects that foster supportive environments, economic and financial stability, housing,
education, and healthcare access for trans communities.
Indige Health
Hub Podcast
Tavia Grant
Molly Hayes
Elizabeth Renzetti
Landsberg Award to lift leaders in
feminist journalism
Journalism plays a critical role in uncovering
gender gaps and sparking systemic change. This
year’s Landsberg Award, co-presented by the
Canadian Women’s Foundation and the Canadian
Journalism Foundation, went to journalists Molly
Hayes, Tavia Grant, and Elizabeth Renzetti for
their work on a Globe and Mail series on intimate
partner violence, which spotlighted coercive
control.
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The Foundation’s
Indige Health Hub
connects Indigenous
youth from across the
country to talk about
healthy relationship
skills. Participants
also led the way in developing a fourepisode podcast series covering topics
including the power of art, language, and
sisterhood.
> Learn more: canadianwomen.org/
podcast/
