Congratulations to the Spotlight Grant Recipients

Canadian Women & Sport is proud to announce the recipients of the Spotlight Grant and provide 105 organizations from across Canada with a total of $1.7M in funding for initiatives aimed at increasing opportunities for girls, women and gender-diverse people to access the benefits of sport and physical activity.
- Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan – Living Skies Indigenous Basketball League
- Accès Escalade Montréal
- Active Scholars
- Afri-Can Alliance International
- Akala Outdoor Education Society Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw
- Ashbridge’s Bay Yacht Club
- Association canadienne des arts martiaux socioéducatifs
- Association de hockey féminin Vallée de Gatineau
- Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia dba South Vancouver Neighbourhood House (SVNH)
- Association Soccer Mineur de LaSalle
- Association sportive des aveugles du Québec (ASAQ)
- Battlefords Gymnastics Club INC
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oxford County
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of South-West Durham and Northumberland
- Border City Athletics Club
- Brampton Hill Skating Academy
- Brampton Ontario Speed Skating Club (BOSS)
- Brock Niagara Penguins
- Brookvale Mountain Bike Camp
- Burnaby Baseball Association
- CAPTivate Gymnastics Subsidiary Association
- Caribbean Canadian Artistic Stars Inc.
- Centre Solaris
- Change Through Sport
- Columbia Basin Sport Society
- Council of Gujarati Canadians
- Dare to Care Bully Prevention and Life Skills Inc.
- Dartmouth She Devils Minor Softball Association
- Durham Dragons Athletics
- East Vancouver Basketball Society
- Edmonton International Athletics Committee
- Elite Camps Cares
- Équi-Libre Therapeutic Riding Centre/ Centre d’équitation thérapeutique
- Ever Active Schools
- Fit Active Beautiful Foundation (FAB)
- Fondation Ancrage Jeunesse (Projet Prends L’air)
- Future Bounce Athletics Association
- Gateway Figure Skating Club
- Girls on Boards
- Gitwangak Education Society on behalf of Gitwangak Skeena Sisters Basketball
- Gymnastics Saskatchewan
- Hamlet of Tulita Recreation Department
- Hero Academy
- Hijabi Ballers
- Hikemtl
- Hope For Health Society
- Indigenous Sports Performance Institute
- Iranian Women’s Organization of Ontario (I.W.O.O)
- Jane/Finch Community Tennis Association
- Kendrick’s Outdoor Adventures Kares Inc.
- Kingston Gets Active (KGA)
- Kootenay Adaptive Sport Association (Canadian Adapted Mountain Bike Association)
- Lady Ballers Camp
- Lake Babine Nation
- Leading Edge MMA
- Leg Up Programme un, deux, trois, hop!
- Lethbridge Steel
- Markham and Lawrence Community United
- Motivaction jeunesse
- Multicultural Trail Network Inc.
- Municipality of Pond Inlet
- Muslim Women’s Summer Basketball League (MWSBL)
- Nepean Riptides Masters Swim Club
- Northern Indigenous Basketball Association
- Northern Village of Beauval Minor Sports and Recreation
- Nor’Westers Athletic Association
- Notso Amazon Softball League
- OSCA (Ontario School Counsellors Association)
- Ottawa Beavers and Banshees Rugby Football Club
- Ottawa Women’s Football Officials Association
- PacificSport Fraser Valley
- PacificSport Regional Centre – Vancouver Island
- Para Storm Swim Club (PSSC)
- Philo-Boxe
- Pink Turf Soccer League
- Prima Danse
- Red Rock ‘n Roller Derby, Inc.
- Regina Riot Football
- Rocky Mountain Adaptive Sports Centre
- Saskatoon Rowing Club
- Scarborough Muslim Association
- Sooke Boxing Club – West Coast Wonder Women+
- Spence Neighbourhood Association Inc.
- Sphere Adventure Programs (SAP)
- Sports en français
- Sweatworking Collective
- Switch Ride Collective
- TB West Community Services
- The Aboriginal Sport and Recreation Circle of Newfoundland and Labrador
- The Pas Minor Hockey Association
- The Vancouver Basketball Foundation™
- Thorold Community Activities Group
- Toronto High Park Football Club
- Toronto Lords Community Association
- Toronto Purple Fins
- Umoja Community Mosaic
- Vaughan Multicultural Community Association
- Villeray dans l’Est
- West Ferris Ringette Association
- Westman Immigrant Services
- Whiskey Jack Nordic Ski Club
- Whitehorse United Football Club
- Windsor Soccer Club
- Wood Buffalo Disc Golf Association
- YMCA of Three Rivers (Midwestern Ontario)
Our government has made it a priority to remove barriers to sport participation. Through our support for community sport, we are renewing our commitment to building stronger and healthier communities. Sport plays an important role in building self-esteem and leadership skills. It is a powerful tool for our youth to grow and thrive physically, emotionally and socially. Through our partnership with Canadian Women & Sport, more than a hundred sport organizations will receive support to help make sport more accessible and inclusive.
The Honourable Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Sport and Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec
“These organizations are doing incredible work to remove barriers and expand opportunities for girls in sport. Targeted funding opportunities like the Spotlight Grant are essential to building an inclusive sport system. They help ensure all women, girls and gender-diverse people–including those who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, 2SLGBTQQIA+, who come from low-income communities, who are new to Canada, or who are living with disabilities–can access and enjoy the full benefits of sport.”
Allison Sandmeyer-Graves, CEO of Canadian Women & Sport
The Spotlight Grant funds community sport and physical activity organizations who are working to remove barriers and expand opportunities for girls, women, and gender-diverse participants from the following communities:
- 2SLGBTQIA+
- Black
- Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit, Métis, Other
- Low-income
- Persons with a disability
- Newcomers (in Canada 5 years or less)
- Racialized
Each recipient is a community-serving, non-profit or charity organizations led by, or directly serving girls, women and/or gender-diverse individuals from the priority communities.
The Spotlight Grant is part of the Community Sport for All initiative which seeks to remove barriers and increase sport participation rates for underrepresented communities. This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada.
