Contribution: Women's Program
Build a Dream to Empower Women
$924,370.00
Supporting Women’s Access to Employment, Retention, Advancement in male dominated fields
EF 2023-24 · 2023-10-13
Résumé
This 30-month project will address women's systemic barriers to job retention and representation in male-dominated fields. Build a Dream aims to improve equity and women's economic participation and prosperity across workplaces such as the Skilled Trades, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), law enforcement, emergency response and entrepreneurship. To do so, the organization will build strategic relationships with key stakeholders, community leaders, and businesses and perform an environmental scan to capture existing knowledge and best practices to enhance the industry's capacity and leadership to help women, including students and women from underrepresented communities, pursue careers in male-dominated fields.
Build a Dream will offer career development opportunities by connecting industry collaborators, students, and job seekers through virtual conferences, career discovery exhibitions, workshops, and hands-on learning programs. Also, the organization will develop a mentoring program and host a leadership symposium highlighting initiatives to improve women's economic pathways across these fields. An awareness campaign and open dialogue on gender perspectives and stereotypes will also be launched.
At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to the elimination of systemic, persistent and prejudicial barriers to women's equality in male-dominated sectors and the creation of a more diverse and inclusive workforce by changing norms and attitudes, encouraging collaboration, networking and improving access to resources that enable women to participate fully and thrive.
Ministère
Programme
Women's Program
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Type
Contribution
Source
Proactive Disclosure - Grants and Contributions
Tel que publié
Agreement End Date
2026-03-31
Agreement Number
NA230378
Agreement Start Date
2023-10-13
Agreement Title
Supporting Women’s Access to Employment, Retention, Advancement in male dominated fields
Agreement Title (French)
Favoriser l'accès des femmes à l'emploi, au maintien en poste et à l'avancement dans les domaines à prédominance masculine
Agreement Type
Contribution
Agreement Value
$924,370.00
Amendment Number
0
Description
This 30-month project will address women's systemic barriers to job retention and representation in male-dominated fields. Build a Dream aims to improve equity and women's economic participation and prosperity across workplaces such as the Skilled Trades, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), law enforcement, emergency response and entrepreneurship. To do so, the organization will build strategic relationships with key stakeholders, community leaders, and businesses and perform an environmental scan to capture existing knowledge and best practices to enhance the industry's capacity and leadership to help women, including students and women from underrepresented communities, pursue careers in male-dominated fields.
Build a Dream will offer career development opportunities by connecting industry collaborators, students, and job seekers through virtual conferences, career discovery exhibitions, workshops, and hands-on learning programs. Also, the organization will develop a mentoring program and host a leadership symposium highlighting initiatives to improve women's economic pathways across these fields. An awareness campaign and open dialogue on gender perspectives and stereotypes will also be launched.
At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to the elimination of systemic, persistent and prejudicial barriers to women's equality in male-dominated sectors and the creation of a more diverse and inclusive workforce by changing norms and attitudes, encouraging collaboration, networking and improving access to resources that enable women to participate fully and thrive.
Description (French)
Ce projet de 30 mois s’attaquera aux obstacles systémiques auxquels se heurtent les femmes en matière de maintien en poste et de représentation dans les domaines à prédominance masculine. Build a Dream vise à améliorer l’équité ainsi que la participation économique et la prospérité des femmes dans des milieux de travail tels que les métiers spécialisés, les STIM (sciences, technologies, ingénierie et mathématiques), l’application de la loi, les interventions d’urgence et l’entrepreneuriat. Pour ce faire, l’organisme établira des relations stratégiques avec des parties prenantes clés, des leaders communautaires et des entreprises, et procédera à une analyse de l’environnement afin de recueillir les connaissances existantes et les pratiques exemplaires pour améliorer la capacité et le leadership de l’industrie à aider les femmes, notamment les étudiantes et les femmes issues de communautés sous-représentées, à poursuivre leur carrière dans des domaines à prédominance masculine.
Build a Dream offrira des possibilités de developpement de carrière en mettant en relation des collaborateurs de l’industrie, des étudiantes et des demandeuses d’emploi par le biais de conférences virtuelles, de salons de carrières et d’emplois, d’ateliers et de programmes d’apprentissage pratique. L’organisme développera également un programme de mentorat et organisera un symposium sur le leadership mettant en lumière les initiatives visant à améliorer les parcours économiques des femmes dans ces domaines. Une campagne de sensibilisation et un dialogue ouvert sur les perspectives et les stéréotypes liés au genre seront également lancés.
À la fin du projet, l’organisation aura contribué à l’élimination des obstacles systémiques, persistants et préjudiciables à l’égalité des femmes dans les secteurs dominés par les hommes et à la création d’une main-d’œuvre plus diversifiée et plus inclusive en changeant les normes et les attitudes, en encourageant la collaboration et le réseautage et en améliorant l’accès aux ressources qui permettent aux femmes de participer pleinement et de s’épanouir.
Expected Results
Women and stakeholders have access to supports to address issues relating to equality between women and men.
Expected Results (French)
Les femmes et les parties prenantes peuvent obtenir de l’aide pour traiter des enjeux liés à l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes.
Organization Code
wage
Organization
Women and Gender Equality Canada | Femmes et Égalité des genres Canada
Program Name
Women's Program
Program Name (French)
Programme de promotions de la femme
Program Purpose
The purpose of the Women’s Program is to advance equality for women in Canada by working to address or remove systemic barriers impeding women’s progress and advancement. The WP supports the Government of Canada’s goal of advancing gender equality in Canada. It is consistent with Government of Canada priorities related to economic prosperity, and supports Canada’s international commitments related to gender equality.
Program Purpose (French)
Le Programme de promotion de la femme a pour but de promouvoir l’égalité entre les sexes au Canada et il travaille pour ce faire à réduire ou éliminer les obstacles systémiques qui freinent le progrès des femmes. Le Programme soutient la visée du gouvernement du Canada de promouvoir l’égalité entre les sexes au Canada. Il cadre avec les priorités du gouvernement du Canada en matière de prospérité économique et ses engagements internationaux en matière d’égalité entre les sexes.
Recipient City
Windsor
Recipient Country
CA
Recipient Legal Name
Build a Dream to Empower Women
Recipient Postal Code
N8T 3G6
Recipient Province or Territory
ON
Recipient Type
N
Reference Number
001-2023-2024-Q3-00053