Canadian Women's Chamber of Commerce

Published purpose

This 60-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Activities will focus particularly on building capacity and strategic planning for national expansion and enhanced national advocacy, including through research and partnership building with businesswomen, service providers, and other stakeholders invested in advancing women’s economic prosperity through entrepreneurship. Operational policies and procedures, along with marketing, communications and training resources will be created and tested through the pilot expansion of chapters, while sustainable funding will be built through strategic partnerships and the implementation of other fundraising approaches. The first supplemental funding will be used to mitigate the impact that COVID-19 restrictions have had on the project by allowing the organization to; expand the team and capitalize on organizational strengths so that they are in a strong position to gain members and revenue as women’s businesses recover, implement Advocacy Strategy and Advocacy-related Communications, and offer signature programs to encourage membership and promote engagement, and launch pilot chapters with Regional Managers. The second supplemental funding will be used to develop results-based management processes and systems to improve performance measurement and evaluation, and to apply a JEDI lens across strategic and operations planning. Therefore, the proposed project will extend activities and build additional organizational capacity for the Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce.