DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE Proposal Question Prompts Max Words What would you like to achieve with your project / program? Define what you will focus on and what are you hoping to change or where you would like to make a difference with this project. Explain how the activities relate to the goal you have chosen. 400 Please indicate why this project / program is important and why Canadian Women’s Foundation should fund it. Please look carefully at the criteria and overall objectives listed earlier and explain how your work addresses similar priorities. Please also explain how you see this work being important to violence prevention as a whole. 300 Is there an identified need in your community / region / province or nationwide for this? Describe. Why is this specific project important at this time and in this place? You can reference internal or external studies, what women have told your organization, needs assessments if conducted and background information on the services or gaps in this area, such as evaluations. In this explanation, please show how your project is relevant to the need of the women, children or teens you work with. 300 ACTIVITIES AND APPROACH Proposal Question Prompts Max Words What is included in the program? What activities are planned? Please include a detailed timeline. Upload program or curriculum outline on the next page. Sample timeline is available Please identify and explain the model chosen and why you chose it over other types of project delivery. Please include the overall goal and also the specific objectives and tangible outcomes. Explain the educational, training or skill development activities of the project. How long on average will participants be involved? Include the frequency of the sessions, the number of hours per week and the duration. Please include the overall theme of each group session / meeting / workshop and highlight each subject covered. If you are still planning this out, please send the draft plan. Ideally, we would also like to see at least one session described in detail. This section helps the committee understand the layout of the project. 400 How do you plan to make your work inclusive and reflective of the How have girls / teens / women been involved in planning and development? Give specific examples of how the project has been developed to respond to different 300
participants, respecting their diversity / background / experience? participants’ needs, (age group, learning style, language, culture). How will participants be actively engaged in the project? How will you recruit the participants? Who is involved in carrying out the activities as staff, elders, mentors and / or volunteers? Please give an overview of the roles played by staff, elders, mentors, and or volunteers and the experience they need. You do not need to provide staff bios or resumes. 300 What steps will you take to ensure safety and follow-up for those involved? How will your project meet the emotional and physical safety needs of the participants, staff and volunteers? Explain how you use different tools such as reference checks, consent forms, liability, waivers, disclosure protocols and referrals. After the project ends, are there ways to follow up with the women, children or teens? Are there other projects that they can become involved in, within or outside your organization? Can they return to the project? Can they take on leadership roles and return as volunteers / employees? 300 How do you include a gender analysis in planning your approach and activities? Gender analysis explores and highlights the relationships of women and men in society, and the inequalities in these relationships. Please explain how you will highlight and address underlying gender stereotypical attitudes through activities in your project and give two examples of this. 300 PARTNERSHIP AND DEMONSTRATION OF SUPPORT Proposal Question Prompts Max Words Please list the partners working with you, outline their role and tell us how you will work together, indicating if their participation is confirmed and whether you are providing a letter from them. List the groups that you are working with to support this project. We recognize that not all of them will be involved to the same extent and not all of them need provide a letter of support 400 For projects / programs with multiple funders: please explain how would you adapt / It is important for the Foundation to see how these funds may leverage other funders and also that you have considered the options to adapt your programming 200