Native Women’s Association forced to lay off half its staff amid funding shortfall

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The advocacy organization is calling on the federal government to provide more stable core funding to ensure predictability in its advocacy efforts

Native Women's Association of Canada chief executive Lynne Groulx takes her seat after speaking during an event launching a graphic guide to genocide, in Ottawa on June 19, 2023.The Native Women’s Association of Canada says it was forced to lay off roughly half its workforce due to a major shortfall in federal funding.

This year, revenue dropped to $10 million, with funding for staff falling from $11 million to $3 million. “We have a genocide on our hands in Canada. It’s daunting every single day,” chief executive Lynne Groulx said in an interview Wednesday.The organization also had to make cuts at all levels of management and cut back on phone services as well in order to keep operations going. As a result, said Groulx, those operations won’t have the same capacity as previous years.

 

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