Young Women's Leadership Network

Published purpose

This 26-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Young Women’s Leadership Network to continue encouraging civic leadership and participation among Black, Indigenous and racialized young women and gender-diverse youth. A series of activities will be undertaken to build national, provincial/territorial and local capacity, including through fund development, human resources management and strategic planning. The project will also develop an approach to support Black, Indigenous and racialized young women to take action to advance gender equality at the national level. Youth will have access to mentors, issue-focused learning opportunities, and skill-development workshops in order to learn how to advance solutions that will address the gaps facing marginalized women/femmes. A Civic Engagement Campaign, as well as a Civic Leadership Curricula will be created, with one curriculum focusing on advocacy and community-building (Mobilizing for Change), and the other one providing non-partisan information about election campaigns.