Dandelion Initiative

Purpose

This 46-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Dandelion Initiative to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the strengthening of its partnerships, networks and collective initiatives; the development of a financial sustainability plan; the review of organizational policies and practices using gender transformative analysis tools; and strengthening of employee and facilitator recruitment and retention practices. This project will increase the capacity of the not-for-profit women’s sector by empowering, prioritizing and enhancing the collaborative and transformative community partnerships that are the foundation of advancing women’s equity and ending sexual violence. The supplemental funding will be used to hire an online e-learning specialist to adapt the logic model and theory of practice into an online blended digital model; to hire a part-time administrator to support the management of transfer to an online model; to hire a financial strategist and expert with donors and grants to assist the Board of Director and Executive Director in creating a sustainability and retention plan; and to create a series of videos on primary prevention and consent.