Shifting Power
Shifting Power is a Communities for Gender Equality podcast. It was created by Community Foundations of Canada (CFC) with help from community foundations from across Canada to share the stories of change makers in communities from coast to coast to coast. Join CFC's president and Shifting Power's host Andrea Dicks as she chats with recipients from the Fund for Gender Equality who are shifting power in their communities. To listen to this podcast in French, please search À pouvoir égal on your podcast platform.
Episodes
8 episodes
Regional Partners, Real Change
Mindy Stroet, formerly with the Prince George Community Foundation, talks about working with regional partners to ensure resources reach those who need them most. Through Communities for Gender Equality, the foundation supported programs that e...
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Episode 3
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Community-First Funding
Jennifer Debues of the Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough Foundation speaks about embracing participatory grantmaking—an approach that puts funding decisions into the hands of the communities most affected. This shift not only ensured...
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Episode 2
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From Policy to Progress
Penny Day of the Rural Communities Foundation of Nova Scotia shares how her foundation leveraged Communities for Gender Equality to update bylaws, ensuring investments align with gender and climate-conscious values. Lori Runciman of...
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Season 2
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13 Moons
Join Andrea for this episode as she talks to Kelly Terbasket, co-founder of IndigenEYEZ, an organization that empowers individuals using Indigenous ways of knowing through different programs and projects. One of these programs in 13 Moons. ...
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Episode 5
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My Uncomfortable Hoodie
For episode 4, Andrea chats with Marshall Feit from Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, creator of My Uncomfortable Hoodie, a podcast series, occasionally a live performance, that curates a set of stories from people on the uncomfortable parts of our li...
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Episode 4
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9:54
Period Promise
In episode 3, Andrea talks to Sherri Smith from Red Deer, Alberta, president of Soroptimist International of Central Alberta. Sherri spearheaded the Period Promise project which is a program that advocates against period poverty, and for stigma...
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Episode 3
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9:54
Survivors Speaking Out for Gender Equality
In this episode, Andrea talks with Wendy Goldsmith, a social worker at the London Abused Women’s Centre and a facilitator for the Centre’s program, Survivors Speaking Out for Gender Equality.Survivors Speaking Out for Gender Equality was a ...
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Episode 2
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