Women’s Capacity Fund
The Women’s Capacity Fund helps women's organizations in Canada to:
- Establish partnerships and formal networks
- Increase community engagement
- Develop strategic and financial plans
- Improve technical skills and tools for more effective organizational management
“[Capacity-building] is like the dark backdrop that connects the stars that are strewn across. The stars are what people see, like programming and events. The dark space behind the stars is the backdrop that allows the bright stars to shine. That is capacity-building.”
— Alison Spitzer, Canadian Women & Sport
Reaching northern communities
Women’s and Indigenous women’s organizations serving Canada’s northern communities are vital to connecting women to supports and services, but they often face barriers to accessing federal funding, such as limited resources, competition with higher-capacity organizations and administrative obstacles.
To address these barriers, Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) collaborated with women’s and Indigenous women’s organizations to develop funding applications, showcasing their knowledge of the needs of women and Indigenous women across the North, highlighting their broad distribution and service networks, and outlining their strong partnerships in northern communities. This approach resulted in 16 additional successful applications from northern-serving organizations in the 2024 to 2026 funding cycle.
Helping these organizations access capacity-building funding will improve their ability to promote equal opportunities for all women in the North.
Equality in Action
Discover how organizations have made meaningful changes in their communities with the support of WAGE funding.
Find out how capacity-building has enabled Canadian Women & Sport to build better sport in Canada.
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