The 2022 recipients of the Women's Impact Montreal Collective Fund

For the 2021-2022 granting cycle, nine community organizations from across Greater Montreal are sharing a combined sum of $250,000 through the Women’s Action Montreal (WIM) Collective Fund at the Foundation of Greater Montréal (FGM). They work in fields are diverse as mental health, violence against women, employment or women’s entrepreneurship. Their main activities also cut across three of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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Name of the organization	Place of work	Main issue	SDGs	Amount granted
Nouvelle-Étape (w)	Montréal	Violence against women	Gender Equality (SDG 5)	$30,000
Mission Exeko (w)	Montréal-Nord	Violence against women	Gender Equality (SDG 5)	$30,000
Shield of Athena (w)	Laval	Violence against women	Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG 16)	$30,000
Société canadienne de la CIDIH (w)	Le Plateau-Mont-Royal	Violence against women	Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (SDG 16)	$30,000
Support Centre for Young Immigrant Women (CEFJI) (w)	Saint-Laurent	Access to employment and entrepreneurship	Gender Equality (SDG 5)	$30,000
Femmes en emploi (w)	Laval	Access to employment and entrepreneurship	Gender Equality (SDG 5)	$30,000
Service d’interprète, d’aide et de référence aux immigrants (SIARI) (w)	Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	Access to employment and entrepreneurship	Gender Equality (SDG 5)	$25,000
GRIS-Montréal (w)	Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve	Mental health for young women	Reduced Inequalities (SDG 10)	$25,000
Femmes du Monde à Côte-des-Neiges (w)	Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	Mental health for young women	Gender Equality (SDG 5)	$20,000

 

Recipient organizations also use intersectional approaches in order to reach and support populations including Black or racialized people, LGBTQ2S+ people or those who live with disabilities, or that display a combination of those characteristics. The FGM team and the members of the WIM Fund’s Advisory Committee wish to thank all who participated in the selection process.

To learn more about the current situation of women and girls in Greater Montréal, see FGM’s 2022 Vital Signs report.

Learn more about the WIM Fund