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The University of Winnipeg

MLEF Community Grants

The University of Winnipeg Department of Women’s and Gender Studies invites proposals for projects/events that foster links between community-based organizations and our department. This community grant aims to support non-profit community organizations with workshops, research projects, short-term programming, or special projects/events.

  • WGS offers a maximum amount of $2500 per grant
  • Deadline for receipt of project applications: extended until February 28, 2025
  • Grants are eligible for projects starting September 1, 2024 ending March 31, 2025
  • A simple report describing your project/event and its results, as well as an itemized budget report listing all expenses incurred, will be required following the project’s completion on April 15, 2025

To apply, please follow this link to complete the online form.

Please note that if you have applied and received funding in the past two years, you will not be eligible for this granting period.

If you have questions, please email Dr. Sharanpal Ruprai at s.ruprai@uwinnipeg.ca.

 

About the University of Winnipeg’s Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS):

The Department of Women's and Gender Studies promotes an intersectional approach to understanding social problems and phenomena. It pays special attention to the ways sex, gender, and sexuality are shaped by colonialism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and transphobia, as well as by constructions of difference based on class, (dis)ability, religion, ethnicity, and culture. Our unique department brings these perspectives to the university and represents feminism in the academy. The department encourages diversity among its students and in its curriculum and offers the means to contribute to social change. Currently, there is a demonstrated need for people with a background in Women's and Gender Studies to take up work in such areas as social services, education, policy development, welfare, health care, counselling and therapy, law, media, advertising, public administration, finance, and management.