Nominate a community leader to the Caroline Andrew Civic Engagement Award
CAWI has the honour to announce the first Caroline Andrew Civic Engagement Award, named after one of our co-founders, Caroline Andrew. Caroline was a a firm believer in the power of [...]
CAWI hosts public consultation for the City’s first Anti-Racism Strategy
The City of Ottawa will officially launch its first Anti-Racism Strategy soon in the spring, and CAWI is the host of one of this sessions! The community townhall is part [...]
Moving towards a Distributed Leadership Model
Intersectional feminism describes how our overlapping identities - gender, race, language, class, ability, sexual orientation, to name a few - impact how we experience oppression, power and discrimination. As intersectional [...]
CAWI stories: a woman fighting hunger, one bag at a time
With CAWI since 2004, Cathy Hamilton is always present at the civic engagement tables – Making Voices Count and Maamawe – and last year she started a remarkable volunteer project, [...]
Support the Starts With Home campaign to end Ottawa’s housing crisis
Ottawa’s housing crisis is alive and kicking. Despite the past success of our It’s Time For Action campaign, the government needs to do more to meet the needs of our [...]
It’s Time for Action beats its $12 million goal for affordable housing
It’s Time for Action was a highly successful campaign run by CAWI through our Making Voices Count program. The campaign aimed to make affordable housing a priority in Ottawa’s 2019 [...]