Current Projects

Fostering Resilience in Women Municipal Leaders #2 (2024 - 2026)

The Coalition, alongside the participants and partner organizations Federation of PEI Municipalities and ASI, will continue to address the concerns highlighted by municipal women leaders in the first series:

  • Not feeling supported when they first entered their roles, or that enough skill-building opportunities existed
  • Hard time finding and maintaining staff
  • Ageing populations
  • Finding housing for young families
  • Lack of provincial funding; significantly lower municipal tax share between governments
  • The perceived unloading of provincial responsibilities onto municipal leaders
  • Women placed in positions for optics only to be ignored

Gender-Based Violence and Emergency Preparation (2024 - 2025)

The objective is to ascertain gaps in how PEI is currently addressing natural disasters, climate crises, and pandemics through a gender equity-lens, using feedback from women and gender-diverse climate leaders.

Empowering W&GD Advocates for Climate Resiliency (2024 - 2025)

The Coalition and a Steering Committee will bring together women and gender minorities across Island industries to strengthen advocacy skills and examine current government policies within government for change. A series of workshops over the fall-winter will have participants produce a policy brief and a public awareness campaign on climate-related topics of their choice.

National Action Plan to End GBV Committee (2024 - 2025)

Women's Network PEI is working with theInterministerial Women's Secretariat to lead community engagement and actions as part of the National Action Plan on Gender-Based Violence. There will be four to six meetings per year and funding will be provided for groups to attend each meeting.

Speak-Up (2022-2024)

The Speak-Up series was an organized gathering of women and gender-diverse community leaders in the nonprofit sector, providing them a chance to discuss changes needed for their organizations and for PEI.There were fantastic discussions around equity, GBV,funding, pay transparency, political will, advocacy, etc.

Island Trailblazers (2022 - 2024)

This project aims to celebrate the history of women's leadership on PEI through a educational colouring book with biographies and testimonials to be published in October 2024. This is volume 1 of what The Coalition hopes will be multiple installments.

Preventing Sexualized Technology-Facilitated GBV (2024)

The primary goal of this project is to equip women leaders with an in-depth understanding of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TF GBV) and to produce a digital defense toolkit.

Building Capacity for Sustainable Growth (2023 - 2024)

United Way and Red Cross partnered to create a variety of funding opportunities to help charities and nonprofits sustain themselves after the initial years of the pandemic. These funds will help us continue to evolve and offer more board/staff training.