Bold Inclusive Leadership for Healing and Justice - MakeWay

Strategic Priorities

All around us, bold new thinking and leadership offers new solutions for the most complex social and environmental issues of our time. Across generations, gender, race, and lived experience, new perspectives help advance healthy and more inclusive futures based on care, community and collaboration. These emerging leaders need safe spaces, funds, organizational supports, and amplification to advance systems change for the common good.

MakeWay works to strengthen networks of diverse and emerging leaders addressing today’s most pressing issues with services, supports, and solidarity.

MakeWay works with partners to:

Support more Black, Indigenous, Racialized and youth community leaders grow their impact through our shared platform model.

Enable networks of womxn leaders to advance systems change for nature and climate.

Grow collaborative philanthropic models that shift power to communities and are rooted in trust.

Support women and girls working on climate change, equity and cultural resurgence in Canada’s territories and Inuit regions.

In Action

AIDS-Free World Canada

AIDS-Free World Canada works for a more just, urgent, and effective global response to HIV and AIDS.

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Womxn’s Leadership Collective for Nature and Climate Action

Feminist leadership for healing, justice, and systems change

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Northern Birthwork Collective

The Northern Birthwork Collective’s mission is to create culturally safe and gender inclusive spaces, programming and services for our community as it relates to reproductive health, pregnancy, birth, postpartum and the parenting journey.

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Qanak

Fostering Inuit community engagement with governance structures, and supporting leadership skills development in the next generation of leaders.

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Ontario Indigenous Youth Partnership Project

The Ontario Indigenous Youth Partnership Project (OIYPP) supports Indigenous youth living in Ontario to engage in their communities through projects that promote environmental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being.

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The Existence Project

Connecting marginalized people to their community through the power of storytelling.

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The Akpaliapik program builds resilience in young girls and teens in Northern communities

The Akpaliapik pilot program will bring opportunities and support to girls in the North, focusing on developing well-being and identity through connection and pride in their culture, language, and heritage.

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Reel Youth

Empowering youth to produce and distribute films about the issues most important to them.

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Northern Youth Leadership

Empowering and inspiring a generation of courageous young northern leaders.

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Inner Activist

Helping changemakers develop strong leadership skills to achieve more effective social change.

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ENRICH Project

The ENRICH – Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities, and Community Health – Project works with Indigenous and Black Communities to address the impacts of environmental racism.

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CommUNITY Doulas

Providing longer-term community care support with the services doulas offer.

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Right Relations Collaborative

The Right Relations Collaborative is a shared space for Indigenous leaders and funder partners who recognize the inequities, harms, and volatile future that is manifesting from our current disconnected and extractive financial system.

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Stories of Impact

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Honouring the Pause

Honouring the Pause

Clearing the path to ‘right relations’: A Council of Indigenous Aunties is shifting the power of conventional philanthropy.

Clearing the path to ‘right relations’: A Council of Indigenous Aunties is shifting the power of conventional philanthropy.

Bringing people together again: the Reel Youth Film Festival returns in-person with films highlighting youth stories and voices

Bringing people together again: the Reel Youth Film Festival returns in-person with films highlighting youth stories and voices

CommUNITY Doulas: recreating the village and supporting Black parents and families

CommUNITY Doulas: recreating the village and supporting Black parents and families

Healthy Lands and Waters

An Equitable Charitable Sector for Planet and People