Links

Looking to connect with other people making big change? Check out this list of resources.

• Advancing the Leadership of Women and Girls, YWCA Canada
  • Advancing women’s leadership requires strengthening the skills of women who are working to overcome violence, poverty and discrimination in their own lives. For YWCA Canada, young women and girls are leaders today, tomorrow and in the future.
• Girls for a Change
  • Girls For A Change (GFC) is a national organization that empowers girls to create social change. They invite young women to design, lead, fund and implement social change projects that tackle issues girls face in their own neighborhoods.
• Empowering Young Women to Lead Change, World YWCA
  • Empowering Young Women to Lead Change is a training tool consisting of a learning manual and workshops for young women to catalyze positive change in their lives and communities. It is designed by and for young women, as part of the World YWCA’s commitment to developing effective young women leaders.
• Creative Visions Foundation
  • The Creative Visions Foundations wears many hats: Part incubator. Part agency. Part academy. Connecting creative activists to mentors, funding and distribution channels, strategic partnerships, and countless other tools and resources.
• Do Something
  • DoSomething.org is America’s largest not-for-profit for young people and social change.. DoSomething.org spearheads national campaigns so 13- to 25-year-olds can make an impact – without ever needing money, an adult or a car.
• Dove Self-Esteem Activity Guide
  • This Self‑Esteem Activity Guide was created to help girls 10-14 develop positive self‑esteem. It encourages girls to look at body confidence and how this influences their attitudes to themselves and others. Each topic is introduced with a practical, engaging activity to make this resource suitable for Youth Groups and After School Clubs.
• Millionaire Girls Movement
  • The Millionaire Girls’ Movement is dedicated to inspiring, motivating and educating women to earn a million of their very own dollars. They seek to change the culture and create more women millionaires as role models for future generations.
• How to Self-Advocate — 10 Steps to Success
  • To Self-Advocate means: To speak for yourself; to defend yourself and make your own decisions; to make your own recommendations; to plead your own cause. You must always be your own best advocate – listed here are 10 easy steps to self-advocate.
• Tips and Tools for Self-Advocacy
  • This tool has been developed for women who believe that they may have been treated inappropriately or unfairly by either a professional or a representative of a community institution that they have sought assistance from.
• Champions for Change
  • The purpose of this guide is to share ways in which one can advocate for one’s self and to assist the adults who may be advocating on your behalf. The goal of this guide is to empower you with the information you need to speak up and be heard. It describes the skills and provides the tools needed to help you build your case.
• Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women factsheets
  • Fact Sheets provide basic information to a wide audience in plain language about important women’s equality issues. The goal is to raise awareness that these women’s equality issues are important, relevant to all people and that individuals and groups can take action to do something about these problems.
• UN Women’s 16 Steps to End Violence Against Women
  • UN Women Executive Director outlines policy agenda describing 16 different steps to end global violence against women.
• Kidshealth.org
  • Kidshealth.org provides ways for children, teens and young adults to learn about, coping with and how to react to another form of sexualized bullying known as sexual harassment or sexual bullying.
• United Nations Platform for Action Committee Manitoba, Gender Budget Project
  • The UNPAC Gender Budget Project – active from October 2004 to August 2007 – acted as the second phase of the Women & Economy Project continuing the work of promoting women’s economic literacy while striving towards the goal of economic security for women.
• Canadian Women’s Foundation
  • The Canadian Women’s Foundation invests in programs that move women and girls out of violence, out of poverty, and into confidence. They are guided by the wisdom of women’s lived experience and powered by their passion for social change.
• YWCA Canada Press Releases
  • A collection of all past and present press releases from YWCA Canada, the country’s oldest and largest women’s multi-service organization.
• The Big Wild
  • Founded by Mountain Equipment Co-op and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, The Big Wild is a conservation movement that makes it easy for the general public to stand up for wilderness protection campaigns.
• Canadians for Choice
  • Canadians for Choice is a pro-choice, non-profit charitable organization dedicated to ensuring reproductive choice for all Canadians. CFC envisages a world where individuals have access to the information, resources and services required to make and exercise informed choices on all aspects of their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Anti-Racism Resource Centre
  • The Anti-Racism Resource Centre was created by the Community and Race Relations Committee of Peterborough to be a clearinghouse of information related to ending hate crime, racism and discrimination in Peterborough and surrounding areas.
• Canadian Race Relations Foundation
  • In 1988, under the terms of the Japanese Canadian Redress agreement, the federal government promised to create a Canadian Race Relations Foundation, which would “foster racial harmony and cross-cultural understanding and help to eliminate racism.”
• Amnesty International Canada
  • Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights. Their vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
• Native Women’s Association of Canada
  • The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) works to advance the well-being of Aboriginal women and girls, as well as their families and communities through activism, policy analysis and advocacy.
• Public Service Alliance of Canada
  • Formed in 1966, the Public Service Alliance of Canada is one of Canada’s largest unions. The PSAC strives to enhance its members’ quality of life and has been at the front of a variety of significant and successful campaigns for workplace and human rights, including the struggle for equal pay, enhanced workplace health and safety and the rights of same sex spouses.
• The Story of Stuff
  • The Story of Stuff creates short, easily shareable online movies that explore some of the key features of our relationship with Stuff—including how we can make things better; and provides high quality educational resources and programs to everyone from teachers and people of faith to business and community leaders.