Violence Prevention Fund

The Canadian Women's Foundation supports a wide range of services and programs across Canada including:

• Programs that help women and their children rebuild their lives after violence
  
• outreach to women who are at greater risk of experiencing abuse
  
• Violence prevention programs that teach youth how to develop healthy relationships and prevent violence from happening in their own lives
  
• Support for children who have witnessed violence to help them heal and prevent them from becoming victims or abusers themselves
  

For more information http://www.cdnwomen.org/EN/section05/2_5_1-violence_prev_fund2.html

Economic Development Fund

The Canadian Women's Foundation's goal is to move low-income women out of poverty and help them establish economic independence. CWF empowers low-income women and builds on their strengths by funding self-employment training programs and social purpose enterprises in communities across Canada.

The initiatives we support offers services such as:

• Practical on-the-job training and skills development
  
• Self-employment training: including business plan development, financing support, marketing
  
• These programs go beyond business to address other essential aspects of women's lives like building confidence, learning to network and securing day care.
  

For more information http://www.cdnwomen.org/EN/section05/2_5_2-econ_dev_fund.html

The Girls Fund

The Canadian Women's Foundation's goal for girls in Canada is to instill them with the strength and confidence they need to reach their potential as adolescents and adults. We support development of the most effective models in girl-focused programming, a national network of organizations working with girls, and the advancement of a girls agenda.

Our work includes:

• Funding programs, for girls aged 9 to 13, that focus on developing leadership, critical-thinking and decision-making skills by engaging girls in science and math, sports and physical activity and/or leadership and empowerment
  
• Bringing together girl-serving organizations to share knowledge and establish best practices
  
• Conducting research on the most effective ways to help girls reach their potential
  

For more information http://www.cdnwomen.org/EN/section05/2_5_3-girls_fund.html

Crime Prevention Action Fund

The Crime Prevention Action Fund (CPAF) provides time-limited funding to assist communities and organizations. The main objectives of this funding is to:

• To support evidence-based models and promising practices which address known risk and protective factors to reduce offending among at-risk children and youth, and high risk offenders in communities
  
• To support the dissemination of knowledge and the development of tools and resources related to effective crime prevention projects; and
  
• To support innovative projects to explore ways of responding to known risk and protective factors related to offending among at-risk children and youth, and high risk offenders in communities.
  

For more information http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/cp/cpaf-index-eng.aspx

National Victims of Crime Awareness Week Funding

The Government of Canada provides funding for organizations to host National Victims of Crime Awareness Week events. This year National Victims Awareness Week occurs April 26 to May 2, 2009. The theme for 2009 is Supporting, Connecting, Evolving. Through the Victims Fund limited financial assistance, up to $10,000, will be available for projects that promote community awareness, victims and victim services and which support the goals of the Week. These resources will be provided through the Programs Branch and the Policy Centre for Victims Issues which administers the Victims Fund.

For more information http://www.victimsweek.gc.ca/fund-fond/index.html

New Horizons for Seniors Funding

By providing funding to non-profit and other organizations, the New Horizons for Seniors Program helps to ensure that seniors can benefit from, and contribute to, the quality of life in their communities, through active living and participation in social activities.

The Program funds projects that help improve the quality of life for seniors and their communities – from enabling seniors to share their knowledge, wisdom and experiences with others, to improving facilities for seniors' programs and activities, to raising awareness of elder abuse.

For more information http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/community_partnerships/seniors/index.shtml

Emergency Financial Assistance for Canadians Victimized Abroad

The Government of Canada has approved enhancements to the Department of Justice Victims Fund, effective April 1, 2007. One of the initiatives under this enhancement is to provide limited financial assistance to Canadians who are victims of serious violent crime abroad who may incur unanticipated or exceptional expenses resulting from their victimization where no other source of funding is available.

The types of crimes eligible for emergency financial assistance are:

• Homicide
  
• Sexual Assault
  
• Aggravated Assault
  
• Assault with serious personal violence, including against a child.
  

For more information http://canada.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/pcvi-cpcv/fun-fin2.html

Assistance for Victims to Attend National Parole Board Hearings

The Government of Canada also approved resources to the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness to defray the travel costs of registered victims who wish to attend National Parole Board hearings of offenders under federal supervision who harmed them. These resources will be transferred to the Department of Justice's Policy Centre for Victim Issues to be administered as part of the Victims Fund.

For more information http://canada.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/pcvi-cpcv/fun-fin2.html

Eastern Regional Wellness Coalition Community Grants Program

In January 2005, the Coalition established Community Grants Program. The purpose of the grant is to support community involvement and action to promote wellness.

The focus of our first Community Grants Program was on activities/projects that promoted healthy eating and/or physical activity among children/youth and their families or seniors. The Community Grants Program will help members implement projects related to the Coalition's present eight priority areas.

To be eligible for a community grant, projects must connect to one Coalition priority areas as outlined in the Provincial Wellness Plan:

• Healthy eating
  
• Physical activity
  
• Tobacco control
  
• Injury prevention
  
• Mental health promotion
  
• Child and youth development
  
• Environmental health
  
• Health Protection
  

For more information http://www.easternwellnesscoalition.com/communitygrants.php

The Muriel McQueen Fergusson Foundation Grants Program was officially established in 1992. The program provides financial assistance to non-profit organizations which research the causes, incidences and forms of family violence, which promote effective intervention, and which support educational programs that increase public awareness about this pervasive problem. The selected recipients will be awarded a grant to a maximum of $3,000 per organization.

Canadian organizations are eligible if they are recognized as registered charities by Revenue Canada and their project supports one of the following areas:

a) The operation of emergency shelters, and the provision of counseling and other services to victims of family violence.
b) The development of counseling and training programs for the education of counselors working in the area of family violence.
c) The development of public education programs addressing family violence.
d) The support of educational research on the causes of family violence and possible remedies.
e) The education and training of victims of family violence.

For more information http://www.mmff.ca/en/grants.php