Backgrounder – Funding Supports Ontario–based Indigenous women’s and 2SLGBTQQIA+ organizations to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence

March 27, 2023 – Thunder Bay, Ontario

In January 2022, Women and Gender Equality Canada launched a call for proposals in order to bolster the capacity of Indigenous women’s and 2SLGBTQQIA+ organizations to provide gender-based violence prevention programming that will address the root causes of violence.

The following four Ontario–based projects are recipients of this funding: 

Project Funding Details

Aboriginal Peoples Alliance Northern Ontario 

Cochrane, Ontario 
Project name: Strategic Empowerment to Reduce Gender-based Violence 
Funding amount: $500,000 

Anishnabe Kateri Association 
Geraldton, Ontario 
Project name: Empower and Create Opportunities to Inspire Indigenous Women through Self-Development and Personal Skills Towards Success 
Funding amount: $25,000 

Nishnawbe Aski Nation
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Project name: Nishnawbe Aski Nation Strategy to Address Gender-Based Violence
Funding amount: $498,297

Ontario Native Women's Association
Fort William First Nation, Ontario
Project name: She Is Wise – Indigenous Women’s Stories Beyond Gender-Based Violence
Funding amount: $500,000