We are passionate about our communities. We believe that feminism is inherently intersectional and advocating for those values means showing up in many ways. While Bonjibon is dedicated to the message of sexual wellness, there are many organizations and companies doing other facets of feminist work to help support, strengthen and empower those in our communities.
The Bonjibon Initiative is a way for us to help financially contribute to and spotlight different organizations and charities and their efforts.
Every quarter we will donate a portion of our profits to a different charity or organization.
Founded by sex educator Tara Michaela, the Youth Sexpert Program is a semester long, virtual training program for high school enrolled youth ages 14-18. Weekly zoom sessions range in topics from anatomy to consent to self pleasure to STI destigmatization to porn literacy. The program is fundamentally pleasure centered and radically honest, as opposed to fear driven. As a social media based initiative, assets would be provided to youth so they could inform their peers of their status as a youth "sexpert". They will not be required to host classes or workshops, rather their "sexpert" status will aid them in social interactions, as many youth look to their peers outside of school hours to discuss their sexuality. Digital sex educators with various areas of expertise are invited to guest teach.
Sex and Self is a youth-led sexuality education initiative founded at McGill University in May 2019, having evolved into a registered Canadian non-for-profit. The organization was created in response to both the barriers in accessing comprehensive, evidence-based, trauma-informed, intersectional knowledge of relevance to sexuality, and the vast extent of misinformation and stigma perpetuated by the present unstandardized provincial curriculums. They believe that it is a basic human right to have autonomy and agency over one’s body and sexuality. They aim to provide comprehensive sexual education through seminars and workshops for young people across Canada, while centering intersectionality, autonomy, and empowerment at the core of our work.
Alongside Sex and Self, they facilitate a high school outreach program called Bodies A to Z. This program caters to both high school and middle school curriculums in Montreal and surrounding areas. They believe all-inclusive, comprehensive sexuality education must begin before adulthood.
Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre are a feminist, anti-oppressive, decolonizing sexual violence support centre operating on unceded Coast Salish Territories. We provide support services to survivors of sexualized violence who have shared experiences of gender marginalization: cis and trans women, Two-Spirit, trans and/or non-binary people. We advocate for social and systemic change through education, outreach and activism.
Skipping Stone leads the way in providing affirming care to trans and gender-diverse youth, adults, and families.
We offer a welcoming, positive, and judgement-free space for anyone who identities as trans, transgender, non-binary, or gender diverse, as well as those questioning, exploring or looking to affirming their gender identity or expression.
We look forward and are honoured, to get the privilege of helping all our clients thrive, from kiddos as young as 6 or 7 to adults into their 60s or 70s as well as parents, partners, families and all those who love and support trans and gender diverse folks.
Our unique comprehensive care model focuses on supporting people as the whole, healthy, wonderful humans they are and connecting trans and gender diverse youth, adults and families to the supports and services they need and deserve and has attracted national and international attention and acclaim.
Through a client-centred, collaborative approach, we empower individuals to achieve their goals by assembling a support team tailored specifically to them. These teams might include community team members, peer mentors and coaches, social workers, mental health and health care professionals, or more.
Islanders Working Against Violence (IWAV) is a non-profit society providing services throughout the Southern Gulf Islands to women and their children affected by poverty, violence and abuse. IWAV also provides affordable housing to people individuals, families, seniors and people with disabilities.
WAVAW is a feminist, anti-oppressive, decolonizing rape crisis centre operating on unceded Coast Salish Territories. They provide support services to survivors of sexualized violence who have shared experiences of gender marginalization: cis and trans women, Two-Spirit, trans and/or non-binary people. They advocate for social and systemic change through education, outreach and activism.
The Unist’ot’en (C’ihlts’ehkhyu / Big Frog Clan) are the original Wet’suwet’en Yintah Wewat Zenli distinct to the lands of the Wet’suwet’en. Over time in Wet’suwet’en History, the other clans developed and were included throughout Wet’suwet’en Territories. The Unist’ot’en are known as the toughest of the Wet’suwet’en as their territories were not only abundant, but the terrain was known to be very treacherous. The Unist’ot’en recent history includes taking action to protect their lands from Lions Gate Metals at their Tacetsohlhen Bin Yintah, and building a cabin and resistance camp at Talbits Kwah at Gosnell Creek and Wedzin Kwah (Morice River which is a tributary to the Skeena and Bulkley River) from seven proposed pipelines from Tar Sands Gigaproject and LNG from the Horn River Basin Fracturing Projects in the Peace River Region.
Your contribution ensures that supporters on the land have food and medical supplies, that Unist’ot’en Youth are able to visit their territories, that Wet’suwet’en Elders have the necessary materials on the land to teach traditional hunting, gathering, food processing, language skills, songs, stories and more. Your monetary contributions enable the Unist’ot’en Clan to stop the pipelines that threaten all of us.
The Indian Residential School Survivor Society (IRSSS) is a provincial organization with a twenty-year history of providing services to Indian Residential School Survivors.
The Indian Residential School Survivors Society began in 1994 as a working committee of the First Nations Summit. We were known as the Residential School Project, housed out of and as a part of the BC First Nations Summit. Our work was primarily to assist Survivors with the litigation process pertaining to Residential School abuses. In more recent years our work has expanded to include assisting the descendants of Survivors and implementing Community education measures (Indigenous & Non-Indigenous).
The Endometriosis Network Canada is the first and only registered charity in Canada dedicated to raising awareness of endometriosis and helping those it affects.
The mission of TENC is to promote awareness while providing education, support and resources for people with endometriosis and those whose lives it touches.
Peers Victoria is an innovative, multi-service grassroots agency that was established by, with, and for sex workers in 1995. Through direct service delivery and community partnerships, Peers provides an array of outreach and drop-in harm reduction and support services alongside education and employment training for current and former sex workers.
THE GOAL OF THE NATIVE WOMEN’S SHELTER…
Is to provide a safe environment where women can begin to rebuild their lives. We offer support and frontline services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis (Aboriginal) women and children to promote their empowerment and independence. The NWSM is the only women’s shelter in Montreal that provides services exclusively to Aboriginal women and their children. Women are offered an up to three month stay in one of 13 private rooms, many of which are capable of accommodating more than one person so that women may stay with their children. There is a zero tolerance policy for drugs and alcohol at the shelter.
In the initial stages, the fund will support low/no cost virtual mental health care for Black clients in East York, Toronto and across Ontario.
The fund will support: Low/no cost workshops for community members, which may include: ancestral Memory of Trauma, which will have a spiritual & recovery model, post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome, which will utilize a psycho-educational model, low/no cost one on one therapy sessions for community members and anti-oppressive workshops for mental health practitioners.
Black Women in Motion is a Toronto-based, youth-led organization that empowers and supports the advancement of black womxn and survivors of sexual violence. We work within an anti-racist, intersectional feminist, trauma-informed and survivor-centred framework to create culturally-relevant content, educational tools, healing spaces and economic opportunities for black womxn.
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
WAVAW is a feminist, anti-oppressive, decolonizing rape crisis centre operating on unceded Coast Salish Territories. They provide support services to survivors of sexualized violence who have shared experiences of gender marginalization: cis and trans women, Two-Spirit, trans and/or non-binary people. They advocate for social and systemic change through education, outreach and activism.