Impact Report 2022-2023
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Your Support Reaches Millions
YOU HELP WOMEN, girls, and gender-diverse people gain the power, safety, support, and rights to thrive, today and tomorrow.
Between April 2022 and March 2023, you supported more than 600 programs ending gender-based violence, building economic stability and opportunities, and empowering participants with confidence and leadership skills.
Your generosity impacted more than 3 million lives.
The grassroots programs you fund through the Foundation know how to meet needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people in our current context of challenge and change.
Your support also enabled our grantee partners to collaborate across regions, strategize, and advocate for nation-wide systemic change.
Your steadfast commitment gets us to the next level – a gender-equal society that benefits everyone.
Impact Highlights: Your Support Throughout Canada
Territories
Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut
- 14 programs
- 62,621 lives impacted*
British Columbia
- 147 programs
- 421,308 lives impacted
Prairies
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba
- 160 programs
- 1,058,883 lives impacted
Quebec
- 16 programs
- 5,874 lives impacted
Atlantic
Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
- 81 programs
- 213,085 lives impacted
Ontario
- 269 programs
- 1,484,910 lives impacted
* All “lives impacted” numbers are based on projections of program participants, people indirectly impacted by the program, and people reached by the grantee organization.
Impact Highlights: Your Support Reaches Communities Facing Multiple Barriers
687
gender justice programs funded all over Canada**“Thanks to this funding, we are able to open a women’s centre, which has been our goal for several years.”
-Community Connections (Revelstoke) Society, British Columbia
511
Programs serving First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities“It’s so rewarding to see Inuit youth gain confidence in their innate knowledge and skills as they create these spaces for children to see themselves reflected positively.”
-Jane Rudolph, Messy Book Program Manager, Arctic Rose Foundation
503
Programs serving Black women and girls“COVID-19 has hugely impacted Black communities … We’ve been able to provide emergency income relief, food boxes, grocery gift cards, and free one-on-one counselling to survivors in our network.”
-Black Women in Motion, Toronto, Ontario
543
Programs serving newcomers“Today, because of CAWA, I am a free woman who knows about her full rights in Canada. I am not living in fear of deportation anymore.”
-Participant at Canadian Arab Women’s Association (CAWA), Kitchener, Ontario
543
Programs serving 2SLGBTQIA+ people“I’d like to thank everyone who made this program possible. It can feel so difficult to find non-binary BIPOC community and self-love but this program has made both possible and I am eternally grateful.”
– Youth program participant
510
Programs serving people living with disabilities“Women with disabilities historically have not had much access to learning about creating healthy relationships. This program helps people develop the skills to identify what they actually want in relationships …”
-Melissa Simas, Program Coordinator, Expanding the Reach: To Address Violence Against Women With Disabilities, Scarborough Women’s Centre
** Includes multi-year and annual grantees, and grantees receiving emergency pandemic response funds. See program descriptions.
** Includes multi-year and annual grantees, and grantees receiving emergency pandemic response funds. See program descriptions.
Impact Highlights: Testimonials
Thanks to this funding, we are able to open a women’s centre, which has been our goal for several years.
It’s so rewarding to see Inuit youth gain confidence in their innate knowledge and skills as they create these spaces for children to see themselves reflected positively.
COVID-19 has hugely impacted Black communities … We’ve been able to provide emergency income relief, food boxes, grocery gift cards, and free one-on-one counselling to survivors in our network.
Today, because of CAWA, I am a free woman who knows about her full rights in Canada. I am not living in fear of deportation anymore.
I’d like to thank everyone who made this program possible. It can feel so difficult to find non-binary BIPOC community and self-love but this program has made both possible and I am eternally grateful.
Women with disabilities historically have not had much access to learning about creating healthy relationships. This program helps people develop the skills to identify what they actually want in relationships …
Watch our 2023 Digital Town Hall
Learn about your impact in different regions of Canada and about what needs to happen to end the rising risk of gender-based violence, build economic security, amplify the voices of women, girls, and gender-diverse people, and spark systemic change at a time we need it most.
