CAWI announces the departure of Valerie Stam, co-Executive Director
Dear members, friends, partners, and supporters, I first encountered the City for All Women Initiative (CAWI) back in 2008, shortly after I began working as a Community Developer in Sandy [...]
Annual General Meeting
Join us for our 6th AGM as we celebrate our latest year! We are happy to introduce the candidates for our 2024 Board of Directors, put forward by the Board [...]
Elections Canada Toolkits
Elections Canada has created two toolkits to guide you through participating in a Federal Election! Have you ever considered running in a Federal Election? Learn from Elections Canada on how [...]
Caring Cities Women’s Action Forum
CAWI is excited to announce the return of our Women’s Action Forums, starting with one on Caring Cities taking place on March 27th 2024 at the Rideau Community Hub! CAWI’s [...]
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 [...]