Tri-Provincial Research

Applications for the Tri-Provincial Research Grants now being accepted on or before July 15, 2026.

PrairieAction Foundation (PAF) is committed to funding research on issues related to violence and abuse that leads positive change. PAF’s goals are to specifically provides grant funds for research that engages in solution focused outcomes that lead to better programs that can keep our communities safer. At this time, PAF is calling for Tri-Provincial research to be conducted in the four specific areas outlined below.

This research must be conducted across the three prairie provinces, and the applicant (community organization or university) must be within Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Manitoba and must have a charitable number for a proposal to be considered.

Recent Tri-Provincial research project award recipients:

• 2019 – Human Trafficking in the Prairie Provinces: Systems Responses to Domestic Human Trafficking of Youth Girls and Women within and across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. (Hope Restored – Saskatchewan).
• 2019 – Examining the Nature & Context of IPV in the 2SLGBTQ Community. (Rainbow Resource Centre Inc. – Manitoba).
• 2019 – Responding to Women who Experience IPV in Rural Municipalities Across the Prairies. (Western Manitoba Women’s Regional Resource Centre Inc. – Manitoba). 
• 2018 – Under reporting in Abuse of Older Adults in the Prairie Provinces. (Age & Opportunity Inc. – Manitoba).
• 2018 – Caught in the Middle: Children’s Involvement in the Court Process as it Relates to Intimate Partner Violence. (The Winnipeg Children’s Access Agency, Inc. – Manitoba).
• 2017 – The Multi-Faces of IPV Across the Prairie Provinces: Men as Victims. (The Laurel Centre – Manitoba).
• 2017 – Adjusting the New Life in the Prairies: Needs of Newcomers Women who Experience Intimate Partner Violence. (Provincial Association of Transition Houses and Services of Saskatchewan (PATHS)).