Despite tremendous needs, organizations working directly with women and girls are often overlooked by large philanthropic institutions and receive little funding from them. In response, the Foundation of Greater Montréal and a group of volunteer women are proud to have launched a new giving initiative: the Women’s Impact Montréal Collective Fund at FGM (WIM Fund).

Since 2021, about $750,000 have been granted through the Fund, to nonprofits supporting the well-being of women and girls in Greater Montréal. To learn more about the WIM Fund’s structure and impact over the last three years, download this summary document.

Note to organizations looking for funding: the WIM Fund’s current granting cycle, which took place on an invitational basis only, is now closed. The recipient organizations for 2025 will be announced in the spring. Stay tuned to FGM’s communication channels (website, newsletter, social media) to learn more about upcoming funding opportunities.

The WIM Fund in 2024

The Women’s Impact Montréal Collective Fund (WIM Fund) at the Foundation of Greater Montréal offers financial support to local community organizations that are directly serving Greater Montréal’s women and girls in order to improve their life circumstances and defend their rights. Persons identifying as immigrant, Black, racialized or Indigenous women are particularly vulnerable, especially those living in poverty or social isolation. Members of the LGBTQ2S+ community, as well as those who live with functional limitations or who are neurodivergent, are also more at risk of being discriminated against.

FGM therefore gives priority to organizations and projects targeting one or more of those groups. In 2024, the Fund has focused on the following topics of intervention: violence committed against individuals identifying as women, access to employment and women’s entrepreneurship, mental health, especially among youths, and women’s and girls’ rights.

Read this post to learn more about the recipients of the Fund’s 2024 grants:

Get to know the 2024 recipients

Click on the following links to view the results of the 2022 and 2023 editions of the WIM Fund.

Vital Signs 2022 : the women and girls of Greater Montréal

This edition of Vital Signs is an overview of the situation of women and girls in Greater Montreal, which focuses on violence committed against them, their mental health, as well as their employment conditions and workplace integration. It also deals with the particular situations experienced by LGBTQ2S+ people, Indigenous, immigrant and racialized women, female youths and adolescents, senior and single-parent women, and those living with a disability or experiencing homelessness.

Download the report

Download the highlights

The Women’s Impact Montréal Collective Fund (WIM Fund)

How to immediately get involved?
  • Become a member of the Fund, through an annual gift of $1,500 – $1,000 for members below 40 years of age – and pledge your support for three years.
  • Make a one-time donation to the Fund and help increase its philanthropic impact.
  • Help us spread the word about the WIM Collective Fund in your network to have an even larger impact!
  • Do you have questions? Contact us!
Join a group of women leaders, determined to have a positive and sustainable impact:
  • Isabelle Ménard, Chair of the Fonds FAM Advisory Committee;
  • Véronique Arsenault, member of the Committee;
  • Melissa Drouin, member of the Committee;
  • Monette Malewski, member of the Committee;
  • Sarah Mashhady, member of the Committee;
  • Claudine Millette, member of the Committee;
  • as well as every other member of the WIM Collective Fund!

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