Empower 50 Women with Essential Care Packages

GOOD TO BE GOOD works to prioritise women and girls, particularly from marginalized and underserved communities, and achieve gender equality. We put them in the centre because we cannot overcome injustices until all people have equal rights and opportunities. To the best of our ability, we start by ensuring their specific basic needs are met on a short-term basis to help them participate in other aspects of their recovery and healing process, which is crucial to their safety, well-being, and necessary to maximise autonomy and self-sufficiency.

With the support from our community, the Empowering Care program (ECP) provides momentum to address gender inequities and vital support and services to women, girls and gender-diverse individuals. This program prioritises immediate relief but does not neglect the impact on long-term development. The assistance we deliver reflects conditions on the ground and is tailored to our community members’ cultural, social, economic, and survival needs. We aim to provide quality support through equitable access, coordinating holistic assistance across the municipality of providers and support systems, involving a required sensitivity for service delivery and recognizing that inappropriate service delivery may do more harm than good. 

Links:

• Community Member Testimonial

• ECP_Report_GlobalGiving_GTBG_2023_Final_AccessibilityChecked.pdf (PDF)
  

On behalf of the Board of Directors and the team at GOOD TO BE GOOD, we proudly present our newly released 2022 Annual Report, titled "Better Is Possible"! This annual report celebrates the highlighted collective and coordinated efforts of our team, partners, and the people we serve. And as a caring member of GTBG's community, we're thrilled to share an electronic version with you. We hope this format will enable you to read and share it with your networks easily. 

From our diverse lived experiences and identities to our ongoing work within the communities, we are a team of driven values-led people looking to expand positive efforts and repair deepened social injustices toward a vision of true, compassionate equality. We take pride in the transformative change our connections bring to women, gender-diver people, and their communities. As we reflect on another year of progress and action, we are reminded of the meaningful connections we've built through our partnerships, volunteer and community member interactions, and engaging with the larger community—all in the name of gender equity and our values.

2022 came with a few challenges as we continued navigating the uncertainty of the pandemic's impacts: economic transition plans were implemented, and demands for labour and resources rapidly increased. Covid-19 and the ongoing existing -isms of oppression continue to intensify the many barriers women and gender-diverse people face in all aspects of their lives while experiencing income inequality, violence, lack of access to critical resources, and forms of marginalization. As a result, we expanded our virtual programs into new regions, celebrated the outcomes of services in others, and continued to support women and gender-diverse people in the community on their path to empowerment and security through development and readiness workshops, peer counselling, and supports for affordable housing, survivors, and safety essentials. 

Women and gender-diverse people are the heart of society, and any progress is only possible through their participation. Thank you for helping to make this happen—and championing this important work through and through! 

As we look to the future, we are confident that our community and supporters like you are with us every step—and continue to carry the shared hope that better is possible and within reach. 

Read our annual report: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gw35zepzpopgu6i/GTBGAnnual_Impact_Report_2022_Final_compressed.pdf?dl=0

To save the report, click the "Download" button found at the top left corner. If you have any issues, please reach out to together@goodtobegood.ca for a personal download link. The report has accessibility features enabled, but if there are any glitches on your end, please don't hesitate to let us know so we can find a solution. 

In Community & Solidarity,

The GOOD TO BE GOOD team 

Links:

• Annual Impact Report 2022