List of organizations – Addressing gender-based violence for safer communities
The following 112 organizations will receive $23.2 million in supplemental funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) as part of Budget 2025 investments.
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National Scope
*Note, certain organizations located in Quebec must follow a separate provincial approval process before agreements can be finalized.
2 Spirits in Motion Society (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
Initial Amount: $490,000
Additional Amount: Up to $375,000CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks (Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan)
Initial Amount: $696,318
Additional Amount: Up to $375,000Canadian Arab Institute/Institut Canado-Arabe (Toronto, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $389,927
Additional Amount: Up to $130,384Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness (Abuse Hurts) (Newmarket, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $613,736
Additional Amount: Up to $196,096Canadian Federation of Humane Societies (Ottawa, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $878,945
Additional Amount: Up to $284,960Community-Based Research Centre Society (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $384,824
Additional Amount: Up to $167,226DisAbled Women's Network Canada (Montréal, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $357,740
Additional Amount: Up to $134,955Equality Insights Lab (EIL) (St. Thomas, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $370,694
Additional Amount: Up to $131,000Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak (Ottawa, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $734,340
Additional Amount: Up to $375,000Muslim Advisory Council of Canada (Oakville, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $391,791
Additional Amount: Up to $135,000National Association of Women and the Law/Association Nationale de la femme et le droit (Ottawa, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $850,000
Additional Amount: Up to $283,777Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) (Toronto, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $832,563
Additional Amount: Up to $284,874She Matters United (Sudbury, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $540,000
Additional Amount: Up to $182,030Stella, l'amie de Maimie (Montréal, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $381,877
Additional Amount: Up to $135,000Tungasuvvingat Inuit (Ottawa, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $378,358
Additional Amount: Up to $309,675Voice Found (Ottawa, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $850,000
Additional Amount: Up to $133,970Women's Legal Education and Action Fund Inc. (LEAF) (Toronto, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $644,560
Additional Amount: Up to $152,690 -
Alberta
Calgary Immigrant Women's Association (Calgary, Alberta)
Initial Amount: $749,870
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000E2S - Edmonton 2 Spirit Society (Edmonton, Alberta)
Initial Amount: $400,000
Additional Amount: Up to $199,197Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary, Alberta (Calgary, Alberta)
Initial Amount: $278,612
Additional Amount: Up to $134,925Nisohkamakewin Foundation (Spruce Grove, Alberta)
Initial Amount: $384,000
Additional Amount: Up to $159,600Sanare Centre (Medicine Hat, Alberta)
Initial Amount: $373,096
Additional Amount: Up to $131,060The Alberta Native Friendship Centres Association (Edmonton, Alberta)
Initial Amount: $500,000
Additional Amount: Up to $250,000The Bonnyville Canadian Native Friendship Centre (Bonnyville, Alberta)
Initial Amount: $497,264
Additional Amount: Up to $268,785The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) (Calgary, Alberta)
Initial Amount: $627,350
Additional Amount: Up to $214,958 -
British Columbia
Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society (Victoria, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $260,094
Additional Amount: Up to $194,203Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $385,526
Additional Amount: Up to $205,594Central Okanagan Emergency Shelter Society (Kelowna Women's Shelter) (Kelowna, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $293,318
Additional Amount: Up to $135,000Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association (Surrey, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $500,000
Additional Amount: Up to $168,259Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women Canada (Ainsworth, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $400,000
Additional Amount: Up to $135,000Hollyburn Community Services Society (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $555,704
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000Indigenous Women's Sharing Society (Courtenay, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $299,957
Additional Amount: Up to $56,620Lower Fraser Valley Aboriginal Society (Langley, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $400,000
Additional Amount: Up to $192,029North Island Metis Association (Campbell River, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $299,999
Additional Amount: Up to $199,896Pacific Association of First Nations Women (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $500,000
Additional Amount: Up to $241,200The North Shore Restorative Justice Society (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $99,893
Additional Amount: Up to $44,000Urban Native Youth Association (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $400,000
Additional Amount: Up to $169,347Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $400,000
Additional Amount: Up to $200,000Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $500,000
Additional Amount: Up to $250,000Victoria Native Friendship Centre (Victoria, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $400,000
Additional Amount: Up to $199,957West Coast LEAF Association (Vancouver, British Columbia)
Initial Amount: $392,300
Additional Amount: Up to $134,257 -
Manitoba
2Spirit Manitoba Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Initial Amount: $491,608
Additional Amount: Up to $248,076Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Initial Amount: $400,000
Additional Amount: Up to $200,000Infinity Women Secretariat Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Initial Amount: $499,154
Additional Amount: Up to $249,900Ka Ni Kanichihk Inc. (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Initial Amount: $533,118
Additional Amount: Up to $250,000Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre Inc. (Headingley, Manitoba)
Initial Amount: $400,000
Additional Amount: Up to $200,000Ndinawemaaganag Endaawaad Inc. (Ndinawe) (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Initial Amount: $399,982
Additional Amount: Up to $199,348The Pas Family Resource Centre - Minisewin Waska (The Pas, Manitoba)
Initial Amount: $500,000
Additional Amount: Up to $200,000 -
New Brunswick
Indigenous Women's Association of the Maliseet and Mi'Kmaq Territories Inc. (Fredericton, New Brunswick)
Initial Amount: $482,622
Additional Amount: Up to $249,994Under One Sky - Monoqonuwicik Neoteetjg Mosigisg Inc. (Fredericton, New Brunswick)
Initial Amount: $487,384
Additional Amount: Up to $246,485CBDC Restigouche (Campbellton, New Brunswick)
Initial Amount: $398,682
Additional Amount: Up to $135,000 -
Newfoundland and Labrador
AnânauKatiget Tumingit Regional Inuit Women's Association Inc. (North West River, Newfoundland and Labrador)
Initial Amount: $378,444
Additional Amount: Up to $201,994Empowering Indigenous Women for Stronger Communities Inc. (Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador)
Initial Amount: $551,548
Additional Amount: Up to $309,203First Light St. John's Friendship Centre Inc. (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador)
Initial Amount: $500,000
Additional Amount: Up to $250,000Newfoundland Aboriginal Women's Network Inc. (Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador)
Initial Amount: $500,000
Additional Amount: Up to $199,408 -
Northwest Territories
FOXY (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories)
Initial Amount: $438,750
Additional Amount: Up to $408,050 -
Nova Scotia
Avalon Sexual Assault Centre Society (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Initial Amount: $298,754
Additional Amount: Up to $151,025Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia)
Initial Amount: $646,374
Additional Amount: Up to $208,000Government of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Initial Amount: $525,000
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000Immigrant Migrant Women's Association of Halifax (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Initial Amount: $467,462
Additional Amount: Up to $202,752Nova Scotia Native Women's Association (Millbrook, Nova Scotia)
Initial Amount: $494,510
Additional Amount: Up to $245,670YWCA Halifax (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Initial Amount: $358,200
Additional Amount: Up to $135,000 -
Ontario
2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations (Toronto, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $495,321
Additional Amount: Up to $162,822Aboriginal Legal Services (Toronto, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $363,200
Additional Amount: Up to $199,989Aboriginal Peoples Alliance (Northern Ontario) (APANO) (Cochrane, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $968,685
Additional Amount: Up to $250,000Brantford Native Housing (Brantford, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $373,725
Additional Amount: Up to $199,987Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $213,421
Additional Amount: Up to $31,867Centr'Elles (Thunder Bay, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $383,929
Additional Amount: Up to $134,250Future Black Female (St. Catharines, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $583,984
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000Interval House (Toronto, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $535,132
Additional Amount: Up to $214,218John Howard Society of York Region (Newmarket, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $573,235
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000Luke's Place Support & Resource Centre for Women & Children (Oshawa, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $588,816
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000Mission Services of Hamilton (Hamilton, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $432,425
Additional Amount: Up to $126,822Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration (London, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $397,105
Additional Amount: Up to $135,000NAN Corporate Services (Nishnawbe Aski Nation) (Thunder Bay, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $498,297
Additional Amount: Up to $249,845Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (Toronto, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $990,000
Additional Amount: Up to $249,325Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA) (Fort William First Nation, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $994,700
Additional Amount: Up to $245,350Orillia Native Women's Group (Orillia, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $328,125
Additional Amount: Up to $194,477Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW) (Ottawa, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $387,856
Additional Amount: Up to $135,000Réseau-Femmes du Sud-Ouest de l'Ontario (RFSOO) (Sarnia, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $481,632
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000Temiskaming Native Women's Support Group (Keepers of the Circle) (New Liskeard, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $457,634
Additional Amount: Up to $249,266The Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (Toronto, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $464,000
Additional Amount: Up to $238,337TOES Niagara (Welland, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $645,149
Additional Amount: Up to $170,382TransCare+ (Kingston, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $396,258
Additional Amount: Up to $134,696Victim Services of Peel (Brampton, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $650,000
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000Woman Abuse Council of Toronto (WomanACT) (Toronto, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $642,307
Additional Amount: Up to $189,117Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre (Toronto, Ontario)
Initial Amount: $628,419
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000 -
Prince Edward Island
Aboriginal Women's Association of P.E.I., Inc. (Lennox Island, Prince Edward Island)
Initial Amount: $499,977
Additional Amount: Up to $244,576BIPOC USHR Prince Edward Island Inc. (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island)
Initial Amount: $95,351
Additional Amount: Up to $94,635P.E.I. Rape & Sexual Assault Centre Inc. (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island)
Initial Amount: $999,344
Additional Amount: Up to $132,351 -
Québec
*Note, certain organizations located in Quebec must follow a separate provincial approval process before agreements can be finalized.
CALACS de Trois-Rivières (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $351,555
Additional Amount: Up to $212,530Centre d'amitié autochtone de La Tuque (La Tuque, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $400,000
Additional Amount: Up to $200,000Centre d'amitié autochtone de Val-d'Or (Val-d’Or, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $399,996
Additional Amount: Up to $187,700Centre MAMIK Lac-Saint-Jean (Roberval, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $500,000
Additional Amount: Up to $200,000Femmes Autochtones du Québec Inc. (Kahnawake, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $340,159
Additional Amount: Up to $250,000G.R.I.S. Montréal (Montréal, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $372,620
Additional Amount: Up to $134,464Ilitaqsiniq (Iqaluit, Nunavut)
Initial Amount: $625,000
Additional Amount: Up to $337,500L'Anonyme U.I.M. (Montréal, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $495,000
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000Les 3 sex* (Montréal, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $515,223
Additional Amount: Up to $214,940Nunavummi Disabilities Makinnasuaqtiit Society (Iqaluit, Nunavut)
Initial Amount: $540,000
Additional Amount: Up to $269,760Nunavut Inuit Women’s Association (Iqaluit, Nunavut)
Initial Amount: $544,478
Additional Amount: Up to $333,879Puakuteu comité de femmes de Mashteuiatsh (Mashteuiatsh, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $435,228
Additional Amount: Up to $268,520Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre (Iqaluit, Nunavut)
Initial Amount: $482,417
Additional Amount: Up to $337,000Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre (Iqaluit, Nunavut)
Initial Amount: $1,250,000
Additional Amount: Up to $432,000Regroupement des centres d'amitié autochtones du Québec (Wendake, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $861,799
Additional Amount: Up to $250,000TransEstrie (Sherbrooke, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $332,011
Additional Amount: Up to $104,695Université Laval (Quebec, Quebec)
Initial Amount: $312,061
Additional Amount: Up to $132,366 -
Saskatchewan
Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan Inc. (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
Initial Amount: $991,325
Additional Amount: Up to $250,000Prince Albert Métis Women's Association Inc. (Prince Albert, Saskatchewan)
Initial Amount: $499,983
Additional Amount: Up to $249,800Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan Inc. (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Initial Amount: $400,000
Additional Amount: Up to $107,717Saskatchewan Towards Offering Partnership Solutions to Violence (Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan)
Initial Amount: $568,358
Additional Amount: Up to $215,000 -
Yukon
Whitehorse Aboriginal Women's Circle (Whitehorse, Yukon)
Initial Amount: $500,000
Additional Amount: Up to $298,408