Empowering Women
Enriching Communities
Women, Work & Wealth Institute is dedicated to empowering women of all backgrounds through financial education, comprehensive career development, and collaborative wealth-building initiatives. Together, we foster economic resilience, leadership, and collective prosperity.
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Secure Income
Collective Wellbeing
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HOW WE SUPPORT WOMEN
Programs
Practical, shame-free financial learning that helps women build stability, recover from disruption, and plan for the future with confidence.
FINANCIAL EDUCATION
Support for navigating work, income growth, and entrepreneurship- whether changing careers, returning after caregiving, or building sustainable self-employment.
CAREER ADVANCEMENT
Group-based programs that strengthen wellbeing, leadership, and shared power- because economic security is built together, not alone.
COLLECTIVE GROWTH
UPCOMING EVENTS
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THE WOMEN’S ECONOMIC
JUSTICE SUMMIT
Income security and mental wellbeing across women’s working lives.
Calgary, Alberta | MARCH 30, 2026
A one-day summit focused on practical pathways, sustainable work, and systems change.
The Women’s Economic Justice Summit brings together women, employers, community partners, and decision-makers to address the real conditions shaping women’s working lives.
Income security and mental wellbeing are deeply connected. Precarious work, caregiving demands, and inflexible systems place a disproportionate burden on women and directly affect participation, retention, and long-term economic stability.
This Summit is designed to move beyond conversation. It combines evidence-informed dialogue, practical skill-building, and concrete commitments that support women’s economic security and mental wellbeing across the life course.
A Pathway to Economic Security and Equity
Women Work and Wealth Institute advances economic security, wellbeing, and opportunity for women by strengthening their access to skills, income pathways, entrepreneurship, and systems influence. Through practical programming, community partnerships, and policy informed engagement, the Institute supports women to build sustainable livelihoods, navigate a changing world of work, and participate fully in the economy.
Our work creates impact at both the individual and systems level. Women gain confidence, skills, and economic stability, while employers, funders, and policymakers gain insight grounded in lived experience. By integrating entrepreneurship, workforce development, mental wellbeing, and equity focused policy dialogue, Women Work and Wealth Institute contributes to more inclusive economic growth and a stronger, more resilient Canadian economy.
Land Acknowledgement
Women Work & Wealth Institute acknowledges that we operate on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples.
Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit and is also subject to the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between Indigenous nations to share and care for the land and its resources in peace.
We recognize that this land has been home to Indigenous peoples since time immemorial. We honour their stewardship of this territory and acknowledge the ongoing presence, leadership, and sovereignty of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
As an institute committed to economic equity and structural change, we understand that economic justice in Canada cannot be separated from Indigenous rights, land, and self determination. We commit to ongoing learning, respectful partnership, and accountability in how we build economic systems and leadership pathways.
African Ancestral Acknowledgement
Women Work & Wealth Institute acknowledges all Treaty peoples – including those who came here as settlers - as migrants either in this generation or in generations past – and those of us who came here involuntarily, particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery. We pay tribute to those ancestors of African origin and descent.